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Corsairs and Navies, 1600-1760 (Hardcover)
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Corsairs and Navies, 1600-1760 (Hardcover)
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Two societies, two conceptions of justice, collaborated and
collided when French forces stormed Cartagena of the Indies in May
1697. For their commander, the baron de Pointis, a naval captain in
the mould of Drake, this bloody if strategically pointless success
fulfilled a long-postponed design "that might be both honourable
and advantageous", with ships lent and soldiers (but not seamen)
paid by the King, who in return would take the Crown's usual
one-fifth interest in such "preis de vaisseaux", the remaining
costs falling on private subscribers, in this case no less than 666
of them, headed by courtiers, financiers, naval contractors and
officers of both pen and sword.' According to Pointis, peace
rumours restricted the flow of advances and the expedition, nearly
4,000 strong when it sailed out of Brest, was weaker than he had
planned, especially if it should prove difficult to use the ships'
crews ashore.
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