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    Episode 11 - The Sea Beggars

    Episode 11 - The Sea Beggars

    FromThe Pirate History Podcast

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    Episode 11 - The Sea Beggars

    FromThe Pirate History Podcast

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    Length:
    60 minutes
    Released:
    Jun 4, 2016
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    While John Hawkins was on his troublesome voyage in the Caribbean, Europe was sailing toward war. In the Low Countries their blossoming Republic was in a life or death struggle with their Spanish overlords. After suffering a serious defeat, a group of ragtag, desperate young pirates arise as the only hope of the Dutch people.
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    Released:
    Jun 4, 2016
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Titles in the series (100)

    A podcast about the Golden Age of Piracy in the Caribbean, the real men and women that threatened the trade and stability of the Old World empires, the forces that led them to piracy and the myths and stories they inspired. Famous names like Captain Henry Morgan, Henry Avery, Charles Vane, Mary Reed, Anne Bonny, Black Bart Roberts, Ned Low, and Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach will rub elbows with Queens, Kings, Popes, rebellious monks, Caribbean Natives, African Slaves and notorious governors like Woodes Rogers. History, high seas adventure, myth and magic, voodoo, treachery, biography and freedom await.