Pirates

Legends say that pirates usually planned to sail the seven seas. The seven seas are known today as; (1) Caspian Sea (2) Persian Gulf (3) Black Sea (4) Red Sea (5) Mediterranean Sea (6) Arabian Sea (is part of the Indian Ocean) (7) Indian Ocean The reason why pirate preferred these seven seas is because they were all mainly used for trading purposes by merchants. Merchants, obviously being the best target for pirates as they would carry the most valuable commodities.

Pirates frequented the carribean, but they also existed elsewhere, including europe, and especially off the coast of China before the fall of the Yuan dynasty. They also worked on the trade routes between Africa and the New World, intercepting slave ships

All piracy is motivated by greed, but Henry Morgan was for the most part a privateer, used by England during the wars with Spain. Although "officially" censured and later prosecuted, Morgan was never convicted or imprisoned, and retired from piracy as a wealthy man and governor of Jamaica.

He first plundered the Mexican coast at the behest of Lord Windsor, governor of Jamaica in 1665, and was granted letters of marque by Sir Thomas Modyford, who had been removed from the governorship of Barbados and replaced Windsor in Jamaica. When peace was made with Spain, many pirates were either unaware of this, or decided to plunder Spanish ships and colonies in spite of orders to desist. Morgan was arrested but tried and acquitted, and received a knighthood in 1672. He became Lieutenant Governor and then acting governor of Jamaica from 1674 to 1681.

The famous pirate Blackbeard (real name Edward Teach/Thatch) had a long, black beard, which he often added lit matches to in order to instill more fear in others who crossed his path.

Teach is often considered the stereotype for pirates, though no accounts exist of him actually killing anyone. You can read more about him at the Wiki link below.

Pirates have rough beards becuase they do not know how to groom themselves.

They al had short temper and didn't treat their sailors very nicely. One rude word and your punished, or you're shot. All pirates -obviously- are desperate for gold. They even believed in it so much, they even started believing in legends.

Most did not, with a few exceptions. Most pirates were anxious to divide up the loot and use what they pilfered from other people's boats. And they rarely discovered gold or silver. Usually they stole food or other perishables that would have been useless, rotten, or spoiled had they buried it. William Kidd pilfered gold and silver from a boat sailing from the Far East. Kidd buried the treasure in Long Island, NY. The gold and silver were confiscated when Kidd was arrested for piracy.

Scurvy is caused by lack of vitamin C. Vitamin C is found in fresh fruit and vegetables, which is a problem on sea voyages as fresh food does not keep. Any long sea voyage could lead to scurvy, unless the pirates were drinking lime/lemon juice, or were keeping mostly to the coastline (so they could stop off often for supplies).

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Nearly all Spanish trade ships of the 16th century passed through the Caribbean.

There are many pirate groups throughout the US. Your location is not clear. These groups are not here fresh from Somalia; they are clubs and organizations, many of which do gigs for entertainment and/or education. The link will bring you to a good list of groups.

The easiest food in many cases was fish and other seafood. But most sailing ships carried stores of dry bread (hard tack), salted meat, and dried beans. In tropical climes, coconuts and fruit were sometimes available, but most did not keep well.

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Because Pirates are sometimes poor and unhappy so they found a new way to make themselves happy and get rich by stealing!

Many countries. Pirates are simply criminals.

He didn't really end them but he did make them think twice about attacking U.S. ships.

As U.S. Minister to France under President George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, decided to send envoys to Morocco and Algeria to try to purchase treaties and the freedoms of the captured sailors held by Algeria. Morocco was the first Barbary Coast state to sign a treaty with the U.S. on June 23, 1786. This treaty formally ended all Moroccan piracy against American shipping interests. Specifically, Article 6 of the treaty states that if any Americans captured by Moroccans or other Barbary Coast states dock at a Moroccan city, said Americans would be set free and come under the protection of the Moroccan state. Other Barbary states were less accommodating. More U.S. ships were captured and huge ransoms demanded for the release of the crews and ships. Jefferson argued that paying tribute would encourage more attacks. Continuing demand for tribute ultimately led to the formation of the United States Department of the Navy, founded in 1798 in order to prevent further piracy attacks upon American shipping as well as to end the extremely large demand for tribute from the Barbary States.

Immediately prior to Jefferson's inauguration as president in 1801, Congress passed naval legislation that, among other things, provided for six frigates that 'shall be officered and manned as the President of the United States may direct...' On Jefferson's inauguration as president in 1801, Yusuf Karamanli, the Pasha (or Bashaw) of Tripoli, demanded $225,000 from the new administration. (In 1800, Federal revenues totaled a little over $10 million.) Putting his long-held beliefs into practice, Jefferson refused the demand. The Pasha responded by declaring war on the U.S.

For the next 4 or 5 years, the U.S. was essentially at war. (Although Congress never officially declared war the actions they authorized and funded amounted to the same thing.) At the direction of Jefferson, the U.S. Navy, along with foreign allies defended shipping, fought ships of the pirates, and blockaded ports used by the pirates. The turning point in the war came with the Battle of Derna (April-May 1805). Ex-consul William Eaton, who went by the rank of general, and US Marine First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon led a mixed force of eight United States Marines, 500 mercenaries--Greeks from Crete, Arabs, and Berbers-on a march across the desert from Alexandria, Egypt to assault and to capture the Tripolitan city of Derna. (This is the origin of the line in the Marine Corps Hymn about "the shores of Tripoli"). By this time the leader of the pirates was tired the blockade and raids, and now under threat of a continued advance on Tripoli proper. A treaty was signed ending hostilities, swapping prisoners, and ransoming the U.S. sailors who were considered slaves by the pirates.

The overall problem of Barbary piracy was not fully settled though until the Second Barbary War in 1815 (after the end of the War of 1812).

The term "pirate" comes from the Latin pīrāta, which is from the Greek peirātēs ("one who attacks"). The word is pirata in Spanish and piracy in French is piraterie.

Most people became pirates to get money! Many British people became pirates because Britan would pay if they took gold and jewels from spanish ships! Unfortunetly for the British leaders most of their "privateers" rebelled and ended up plundering and pillaging for their lives!

The Mersey Pirate was created in 1979.

Its hard to speculate that number since piracy (as in ocean borne pirates) have been around since people have been able to navigate the oceans on ships -- were talking thousands of years here, if you narrowed your scope down to specific time period and location you'd proably be able to look up that answer...

because they had bad upbringings as children and they take their anger out on other ships when secretly, theyre all scared little children who need someone to stretch their arm out and give them a hug. pirates are people too, theyre just misunderstood.

Two female pirates were part of John Rackham's pirate crew. Anne Bonny and Mary Read

They use any weapon they have.