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He literally ordered them to burn their ships.
Corsairs were given license by the authorities to attack enemies ships (they attack only enemies ships no french ships) while pirates were those who attacked any ships of any country including those of french.
Corsairs were given license by the authorities to attack enemies ships (they attack only enemies ships no french ships) while pirates were those who attacked any ships of any country including those of french.
The French ordered their navy to raid American ships, imprison the sailors and then threaten to hang them.
Hernán Cortés ordered the boats burned in 1519, after they landed in Mexico.
They were hoping that it would help them conpuer Mexico By founding the Fort Caroline settlement, France attempted to gain a foothold in a worship freely and building a base from which to attack the Spanish ships.
She did more than allow she ordered. She was at war with the Spanish and what better way to cripple them than to sink ships and take the gold. Her treasury got bigger from their gold and she didn't waste man power attacking them.
Jean Ribault was murdered under orders from Pedro Menendez de Aviles . Menendez had been ordered by the Spanish king to destroy the French colony of Fort Caroline. Ribault’s fleet of ships that were to attack the Spanish were delayed in a hurricane force storm.
Actually, most of the pirate ships were French and British and preyed on the Spanish ships that shipped gold from Mexico and Peru to Spain.
The French navy contributed to the revolution by blockading British ships from supplying necessities and they sent some soldiers to attack British forts.
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