"pirate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Less welcome visitors then arrive in the shape of British pirates, who make a living by trading or stealing sandalwood.
- First, though, there were British pirates, up to 5,000 at a time.
- During the late 16th and 17th centuries, the region suffered many attacks by French and British pirates.
- A seventeenth-century British pirate who turned respectable and became the governor of Jamaica.
- Used as a hub to transport gold and silver to Spain, it was sacked and burned to the ground by British pirates in 1671.
- Henry Every (born c. 1653), British pirate.
- Often, they were forced to fly the Confederate insignia since the Union had imposed the death penalty on British "pirates" captured in the region.
- Thomas Walton (also known as Purser) was a 16th-century British pirate.
- Clinton Atkinson (also known as Clinton) was a 16th-century British pirate.
- It is a tiny place, covering no more than five square miles, with about 1,100 people, some proudly claiming to be descendants of British pirates.
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