HI127 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Alexandre Exquemelin, Protestantism, Land Raid
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Most of the ime they were privateers. What set them apart, was that they lived in the caribbean, tortuga (french) and jamaica (briish) The term buccaneers referred to a group of men, who live in northern. Mainly english and french, incorporated africans, but they were mainly: what was their impact on the history of piracy? slaves. Mainly french, this was a french buccaneer (privateer) colony. Buccaneers comes from boucan reference to the method of cooking meet over an open ire. French setlers took over this, from indigenous people. Inluence of indigenous people on the caribbean and buccaneers. Britain wanted to involve themselves in the spanish trade. Setlers started to come colonizes areas that weren"t protected securely by spain. 1630: briish held, new providence (nicaragua) only unil 1631 and they lost it. 1654: western design oliver cromwell converted protestant, rebellion against the crown during the war.
