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Out-manned and outgunned, Jackson mobilized a force of somewhat irregular members: an unlikely coalition of militiamen, local Creoles, free blacks, Choctaws, and associates of the privateers Jean and Pierre Lafitte (see page 74).
Despite their efforts, however, Ibiza was menaced by so many hostile flotillas that the locals took the unprecedented step of forming their own band of privateers.
They rescinded their agreement with the privateers and began the process of evicting them from Port Royal.
This was the period when nautical marauders variously called buccaneers, corsairs, privateers, and pirates stalked the shipways and bays of the Caribbean.
Moreover, there was not always a clear distinction between pirates and privateers, the latter officially authorized by their governments to plunder enemy ships during time of war.