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Piracy in Scotland dates back to the presence of Viking pirates in Scotland in 617. The main difference between pirates and privateers is that privateers...

Captain Kidd's Cannon Gardiners Island Oak Island Treasure Island Piracy in Scotland Laura Brown. "William Kidd". The Scots Magazine. Retrieved 15 April...

wars Ottoman Imperial Harem Ottoman Navy Piracy in Scotland Regency of Algiers Republic of Salé Slavery in the Ottoman Empire Turkish Abductions Geoffrey...

The Piracy Act 1717 (4 Geo. 1. c. 11), sometimes called the Transportation Act 1717 (1718 in New Style), was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain...

involved in piracy and piracy-related activities. This list includes both captains and prominent crew members. For a list of female pirates, see women in piracy...

See also 1703 in piracy, other events in 1704, 1705 in piracy, and Timeline of piracy. April 11 - Thomas Green, captain of the Worcester, and two of his...

as did English piracy against Scottish shipping. After the newly crowned 14-year-old King Edward III was nearly captured by the Scots in the English disaster...

skyjacking, plane hijacking, plane jacking, air robbery, air piracy, or aircraft piracy, with the last term used within the special aircraft jurisdiction...

of Parliament, one by the Parliament of England in 1706, the other by the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. They put into effect the Treaty of Union agreed...

See also 1704 in piracy, other events in 1705, 1706 in piracy, and Timeline of piracy. Undated - Money seized from Captain Kidd, executed only four years...

of privateers turning to piracy when war ended. The commission usually protected privateers from accusations of piracy, but in practice the historical...

(pg. 88) ISBN 0-313-32329-1 Beal, Clifford. Quelch's Gold: Piracy, Greed, and Betrayal in Colonial New England. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing...

Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781782007807. "Bremen Piracy and Scottish Periphery: The North Sea World in the 1440s » De Re Militari". deremilitari.org. Retrieved...

being arrested or killed in battle, and for being the perpetrator of what has been called the most profitable act of piracy in history. Although Every's...

Winchester, after acknowledging their piracy. The Scottish bishop John Lesley gave a similar account of the battle in his chronicle. George Buchanan has...

Love, who had set up base in the Outer Hebrides, was betrayed by a confederate, tried for piracy, and executed in Scotland. Unknown - Hendrik Brouwer...

for piracy in Scotland were hanged at the north end of the street (near what is now Tower Street). The two men were Peter Heaman from Carlscrona in Sweden...

attack, during the early 18th century (the latter part of the Golden Age of Piracy). The vast majority of such flags flew the motif of a human skull, or “Death's...

colonisation of the Americas (1492-) and the early nineteenth century. Piracy became prevalent in this era because of the difficulty of policing this vast area...

On his diplomatic mission in 1286, Edward had paid homage to the new king, Philip IV, and—following an outbreak of piracy and informal war between English...