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Why are pirates called pirates?

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Why are pirates called pirates?
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RE: Why are pirates called pirates?
July 6, 2011 at 4:12 pm
(July 6, 2011 at 3:48 pm)BloodyHeretic Wrote:
(July 6, 2011 at 3:37 pm)Chuck Wrote:
(July 3, 2011 at 5:50 pm)Epimethean Wrote: and the first famous pirate may well have been Pompey the Great.

Pompey the great more or less stamped out piracy in the Med for the Roman Republic. He was not a pirate himself.

I raid and plunder with one ship, I'm a pirate, you do it with a fleet, you're an imperial navy.


Er...Republican navy. Although Pompey did exceed his authority the Senate did not care.

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Why are pirates called pirates?

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Why are pirates called pirates? - by BloodyHeretic - July 3, 2011 at 5:33 pm
RE: Why are pirates called pirates? - by Epimethean - July 3, 2011 at 5:50 pm
RE: Why are pirates called pirates? - by Anomalocaris - July 6, 2011 at 3:37 pm
RE: Why are pirates called pirates? - by BloodyHeretic - July 6, 2011 at 3:48 pm
RE: Why are pirates called pirates? - by Anomalocaris - July 6, 2011 at 4:07 pm
RE: Why are pirates called pirates? - by Minimalist - July 6, 2011 at 4:12 pm
RE: Why are pirates called pirates? - by Epimethean - July 3, 2011 at 5:53 pm
RE: Why are pirates called pirates? - by Napoléon - July 3, 2011 at 5:56 pm
RE: Why are pirates called pirates? - by Epimethean - July 3, 2011 at 5:57 pm
RE: Why are pirates called pirates? - by Napoléon - July 3, 2011 at 5:59 pm
RE: Why are pirates called pirates? - by Napoléon - July 3, 2011 at 6:32 pm
RE: Why are pirates called pirates? - by Minimalist - July 3, 2011 at 7:13 pm
RE: Why are pirates called pirates? - by Napoléon - July 4, 2011 at 10:36 am
RE: Why are pirates called pirates? - by Epimethean - July 3, 2011 at 6:01 pm
RE: Why are pirates called pirates? - by fr0d0 - July 3, 2011 at 6:30 pm
RE: Why are pirates called pirates? - by BloodyHeretic - July 3, 2011 at 6:35 pm
RE: Why are pirates called pirates? - by Violet - July 3, 2011 at 7:10 pm
RE: Why are pirates called pirates? - by kriskiran - July 4, 2011 at 8:40 am
RE: Why are pirates called pirates? - by Epimethean - July 4, 2011 at 9:28 am
RE: Why are pirates called pirates? - by Napoléon - July 4, 2011 at 10:39 am
RE: Why are pirates called pirates? - by leo-rcc - July 4, 2011 at 11:13 am
RE: Why are pirates called pirates? - by Napoléon - July 4, 2011 at 5:21 pm
RE: Why are pirates called pirates? - by BloodyHeretic - July 6, 2011 at 3:16 pm
RE: Why are pirates called pirates? - by BloodyHeretic - July 13, 2011 at 7:59 pm
RE: Why are pirates called pirates? - by padraic - July 14, 2011 at 12:58 am

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