Plunder & Pillage: Atlantic Canada's Brutal and Bloodthirsty Pirates and PrivateersFor over three hundred years, lawlessness in Canada flourished off Canada's east coast. Pirates roamed the North Atlantic, and master storyteller Harold Horwood recounts their action-filled careers, crimes and violent deaths. Privateerslicenced by governments to harass the enemyaimed to capture enemy ships and plunder their cargo. Among the characters readers meet in these pages are the folk hero, Peter Easton, still celebrated as a great Newfoundlander and famed privateer Enos Collins, the wealthiest ship owner in British North America and owner of the Black Joke. This new collection brings together the best of Harold Horwood's writing on pirates and privateers, and offers rich, edge-of-your-seat, highseas adventure. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | 5 |
Introduction | 7 |
Chapter 1 The Great Easton | 19 |
Chapter 2 Henry Mainwaring | 33 |
Chapter 3 David Kirke and the Band of Brothers | 45 |
Chapter 4 Sailing Against Acadia | 59 |
Chapter 5 John Phillips | 69 |
Chapter 6 Bartholomew Roberts | 78 |
Chapter 10 Godfrey and The Rover | 132 |
Chapter 11 Masterless Men | 141 |
Chapter 12 The Black Joke | 159 |
Chapter 13 Winners and Losers in the War of 1812 | 173 |
Chapter 14 The Pirate of the Thousand Islands | 185 |
Chapter 15 The Grey Ghost | 198 |
Afterword | 205 |
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Common terms and phrases
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