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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).
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.
This time the plundered vessels were American, but not all the victories were won by the privateers.
Not all Bermudians, however, were sympathetic to the rebel cause, as privateers continued to capture and ransack American ships.
To the pirates and privateers who sailed the Caribbean in the early 16th century, the fortress of El Morro at San Juan represented the might, and the wealth, of the Spanish Crown.