Talk:Privateering/@comment-75.224.145.142-20121121063237/@comment-2113612-20130227231331

Uskok,

History lesson time. The POTC movies are set in the time frame when Blackbeard was alive. He died btw in 1718. The Queen Annes Revenge Sunk off the coast of North Carolina in 1718. It still sails in our game. Granted this game is in no way historically accurate, but it is indeed set no earlyier then 1715, nor later then 1718. Historians agree that the golden age of piracry was over by the late 1730's. By the 1740's the european naval powers had too great a presence for pirates to operate in Caribbean waters. The golden age of piracy was ushered in by the Queen Annes war., or war of Spanish Succession. It ended in 1713. This let loose a glut of privateer warships with no letter of marque to operate under and crews and captains still wanting to fight. I have spent the last 20 plus years reading about  piracy in the Caribbean. It is in my opinion the most interesting period to study, closly followed by the crusader era. Go to the libray and dont trust your school text books.