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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.
Not all Bermudians, however, were sympathetic to the rebel cause, as privateers continued to capture and ransack American ships.
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).
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They rescinded their agreement with the privateers and began the process of evicting them from Port Royal.