Posted by Under The Black Flag on 8:54 μ.μ.
A fluyt, fluit, or flute (Dutch pronunciation: [flœy̯t])[p] is a Dutch type of sailing vessel originally designed as a dedicated cargo vessel. Originating from the Netherlands in the 16th century, the vessel was designed to facilitate transoceanic delivery with the maximum of space and crew efficiency. The inexpensive ship — which could be built in large numbers[1] — usually carried 12 to 15 cannons, but was still a somewhat easy target for pirates. Nonetheless, the fluyt was a significant factor in the 17th century rise of the Dutch seaborne empire.[2][edit] Ship designThe standard fluyt design minimized or completely eliminated its armaments...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 8:34 μ.μ.
Οι Ιωαννίτες Ιππότες, γνωστοί και ως Ανεξάρτητο Στρατιωτικό Τάγμα του Ξενώνα του Αγίου Ιωάννη της Ιερουσαλήμ της Ρόδου και της Μάλτας, Τάγμα του Αγίου Ιωάννη, Οσπιταλιέροι και Ιππότες της Μάλτας, (Γαλλικά Ordre Des Hospitaliers), είναι Ιπποτικό Θρησκευτικό Τάγμα, που ξεκίνησε ως Αμαλφικό νοσοκομείο στην Ιερουσαλήμ το 1080 για να παρέχει φροντίδα στους φτωχούς, άρρωστους ή τραυματισμένους προσκυνητές των Αγίων Τόπων. Μετά τη Χριστιανική εκστρατεία στην Ιερουσαλήμ το 1099, κατά την πρώτη Σταυροφορία, έγινε θρησκευτικό και πολεμικό τάγμα με δική του διοίκηση αναλαμβάνοντας την προστασία των Αγίων Τόπων. Μετά την ήττα και την εκδίωξη...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 8:31 μ.μ.
The Barbary Corsairs, sometimes called Ottoman Corsairs or Barbary Pirates, were an alliance of Muslim pirates and privateers who operated from North Africa from the time of the Crusades (11th century) until the early 19th century. Based in North African ports such as Tunis, Tripoli, Algiers, Salé, and other ports in Morocco, they sailed mainly along the stretch of northern Africa known as the Barbary Coast.[1] Their predation extended throughout the Mediterranean, south along West Africa's Atlantic seaboard, and into the North Atlantic as far north as Iceland, and they primarily commandeered western European ships in the western Mediterranean...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 10:04 μ.μ.
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (February 15, 1519 – September 17, 1574) was a sixteenth century Spanish admiral and pirate hunter. He is best remembered for his founding St. Augustine, Florida (the first permanent European settlement and oldest port city in what is now the continental United States) on August 28, 1565, and also for his subsequent destruction of the French settlement of Fort Caroline. Menéndez was the first governor of Florida.In 1561, Menéndez commanded the galleons of the great Armada de la Carrera (Spanish treasure fleet) on their voyage from Mexico to Spain. When he had delivered the treasure fleet to Spain, he asked permission...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 10:25 μ.μ.
The Spanish treasure fleets (or West Indies Fleet from Spanish Flota de Indias) was a convoy system adopted by the Spanish Empire from 1566 to 1790. The convoys were general purpose fleets used for transporting a wide variety of items, including agricultural goods and sometimes even lumber, manufactures and various metal resources and luxuries, most famously silver and gold, but also gems, pearls, spices, sugar, tobacco, silk, and other exotic goods from the Spanish colonies to Spain. Manufactures such as tools and other everyday items as well as Spanish emmigrants were transported in the opposite direction.Spanish ships had brought treasure...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 10:38 π.μ.
Alvilda was a Danish/Gothic Princess who lived in what is now Sweden. There is some doubt of Alvilda's actual exisistance. In fact, the date of her reign cannot even be verified (some say as early as the 5th Century up to as late as the 12th century). Much of what we know is based upon the verbal retelling by bards in the Viking halls. The story starts with Alvilda rejecting her suitor, Prince Alf (son of King Sigarus- or Sigar- of Denmark). There is a difference of the story with how her rejection took...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 10:39 π.μ.
Ahoy Captain Jake LanksterPlease, spare some time and share with our fine and dear U.T.B.F. Brotherhood, some treasure from yer life, so as the Pirate Universe know ye better… What is yer real name, mylord? Leonidas GourgourinisWhat are yer other, everyday activities, except from sailing, plundering and dreaming?I'm working as a computer programmer and I trying to be a writer. Also i love to read history.My first book published today with the name «H Πειρατεία στη Μάνη και τη Μεσόγειο» the English title is “Piracy in the Mediterranean The Maniot Pirates” and will be available...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 10:40 μ.μ.
Οι πρώτες μεγάλες αναμετρήσεις των ευρωπαϊκών δυνάμεων μέ τούς Οθωμανούς άρχισαν μετά τήν άλωση του 1453. Ως τότε η Ευρώπη καί κυρίως ο ισχυρότερός της εκπρόσωπος εκείνης της εποχής, η Βενετία ακολούθησε μία ρεαλιστική πολιτική έναντι του οθωμανικού επεκτατισμού, επιδιώκοντας νά διατηρήσει τά λιμάνια της καί τά εμπορικά προνόμια στό πρώην βυζαντινό κράτος. Από τήν άλλη μεριά οι Οθωμανοί θεωρούσαν υποχρέωσή τους τήν εκδίωξη των Φράγκων από τά εδάφη της αυτοκρατορίας τους. Μολονότι τά λιμάνια των Βενετών ήταν κατά κανόνα κέντρα ειρηνικής εμπορικής δραστηριότητας, ήταν θέμα γοήτρου αλλά καί υποχρέωσης λόγω του ιερού πολέμου, η απομάκρυνση...
