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This was the period when nautical marauders variously called buccaneers, corsairs, privateers, and pirates stalked the shipways and bays of the Caribbean.
These “privateers” were welcomed at Port Royal, the English settlement on the southern tip of Kingston harbor, and it quickly developed a reputation as the wickedest city in the world.
They rescinded their agreement with the privateers and began the process of evicting them from Port Royal.
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.
During the American War of Independence, France’s sympathies were undisguised: American ships were granted safe anchorage in the FWI, privateers raiding from Saint-Barthélemy’s coves sank many a British merchantman, and a Martinique regiment fought the British at Savannah, Georgia.