"The Attack of the ‘Last Great Pirate’ – Benito De Soto," Topic

…. Wellington's Treasure and the Raid on the ‘Morning Star'

"NO ONE ABOARD the English vessel Morning Star imagined they'd be sailing into history when their ship departed Ceylon (today's Sri Lanka) for Great Britain on Dec. 13, 1827. Yet the unarmed merchantman was just weeks away from a bloody and savage encounter with one of the last "great pirates" of history: Benito De Soto.

A Spanish brigand, De Soto and his crew cruised the waters of the South Atlantic as part of a short-lived resurgence of piracy following the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Morning Star would be one of the final unlucky victims of this brief outbreak.

Aboard the doomed vessel were several dozen wounded and disease-ridden redcoats who were heading home after fighting in one of the many colonial campaigns against local rulers who refused to submit to British authority…"
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What a bummer "no small arms or cannon could be carried on board a Quaker vessel."

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Not Benito… but this Pirate looks good!…

"THE BALLAD OF RENEGADE NELL eight part series, a stylish, witty and surprising romp set in the 18th century! When she's framed for murder, Nell Jackson is forced into a life of highway robbery, along with her two orphaned sisters Roxanne and George. Aided by a plucky little spirit called Billy Blind, Nell realizes that fate has put her on the wrong side of the law for a reason, a reason much bigger than she could've ever imagined, a reason that goes right up to Queen Anne and beyond, to the struggle for power raging across the battlefields of Europe."
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How Pirates Work

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We've to praise these women's courage, they literally saved the day (and lives). Without their detemination, probabilly these scumbags would've killed more innocent people, on the contrary were all caught and treated as they deserved. One of the (few) positive things about the past was how they dealed with such filth!