Annotated Blog of ze Pirates

I compare the two readings Buccaneers and Pirates to Under the black flag. Its a good little reminder that you read the facts in the two and connect them both.


     In Buccaneers and Pirates by Frank R. Stockton. It mentions a pirate's life and their culture such as wars, walking the plank and hunting for the most treasure.

     In Under The Black Flag by David Confidingly, it defines what a pirate and a privateer is. A privateer is the commander of the crew which attacks and seizes the vessels of a hostile nation. (page.xvii).


   Another connection I saw in Under The Black Flag "The French played a major part in the history of piracy. Many of the most successful and most fearsome of the buccaneers who prowled the Spanish Main came from French seaports (Confidingly. xvi). In Under The Black Flag, the authors says "There was a Frenchman of that period who must have been a warm-hearted philanthropist, because, having read accounts of the terrible atrocities of the Spaniards in the western lands, he determined to leave his home and his family, and become a buccaneer, in order that he might do what he could for the suffering natives in the Spanish possessions."(Stockton.18).