Today, modern historians agree that the charges of treason and witchcraft brought against Joan were a complete lie, made up by the king to deprive her of the wealth
The Reputation of Queen Joan
Pirate Hunters
Piracy in the Caribbean began on a small scale, with a small but growing number of attacks being recorded from 1714 on. One of these early pirates was Benjamin Hornigold, who quit Jamaica to base himself in the Bahamas. It was a struggling backwater
