The pirates had raided the Danish coasts during the civil war of Sweyn III, Canute V, and Valdemar, to the point where at the accession of Valdemar one-third of Denmark lay wasted and depopulated.

But between 1609 and 1614 King Felipe III expelled thousands of Moriscos who had remained in Valencia after the Reconquista, due to their cooperation with Barbary pirates who continually attacked coastal cities and caused much harm to trade.

According to the 12th-century bishop of Athens, Michael Choniates, by his time the island had become a base for pirates.

Bostock also claimed that Teach had questioned him about the movements of local ships, but also that he had seemed unsurprised when Bostock told him of an expected royal pardon from London for all pirates.

The empire also had to deal with Japanese pirates attacking the southeastern coastline ; General Qi Jiguang was instrumental in defeating these pirates.

The Barbary pirates thus had no need to rebel against the Ottoman Empire, who were their nominal state government, to gain recognition for their sovereignty.

The Bagaudae had been easily suppressed, but Carausius, the man he had put in charge of operations against Saxon and Frankish pirates on the Saxon Shore, had begun keeping the goods seized from the pirates for himself.

On Oxford's return across the Channel in April, his ship was hijacked by pirates from Flushing, who took his possessions, stripped him to his shirt, and might have murdered him had not one of them recognized him.

By the beginning of the 16th century the Libyan coast had minimal central authority and its harbours were havens for pirates.

Henry was 21 when he, his father and brothers captured the Moorish port of Ceuta in northern Morocco, that had long been a base for Barbary pirates who raided the Portuguese coast, depopulating villages by capturing their inhabitants to be sold in the African slave market.

He had witnessed the Barbary Wars against the Islamic pirates of North Africa, and the Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman Turks.

He had them crucified on his own authority, as he had promised while in captivity — a promise the pirates had taken as a joke.

He also had a small, uncredited role as one of the river pirates in 1962's How the West Was Won.

In a striking parallel, on Oxford's return from Europe across the Channel in April 1576, his ship was hijacked by pirates who robbed him and left him stripped to his shirt, and who might have murdered him had not one of them recognised him.

In the 1st century BC, Acarnania suffered greatly at the hands of pirates, and in Rome's civil wars.

The pirates suffered over one hundred casualties and the monks only four.

After the end of the Western Roman Empire, Capri returned to the status of a dominion of Naples, and suffered various attacks and ravages by pirates.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the shore of Guangdong suffered from pirates.

Throughout the 15th century, the island suffered the incursions of pirates and Barbary privateers-in 1543 and 1544 Hayreddin Barbarossa laid waste to the island, taking 4, 000 prisoners in the process.

In the mid 17th century the area suffered from the ravages of Turkish pirates ( actually Algerian rovers ), who raided the Devon and Cornwall coastlines, attacking shipping and attempting to capture sailors and villagers for sale as slaves in North Africa.

Other small mediaeval villages such as Mas d ’ en Bisbe, Vilagrassa and Vilafortuny, the latter of which had its own castle and church, also suffered the ravages of the pirates, which impeded the growth of their populations, a situation that did not change until they were annexed to the municipality of Cambrils in the 19th century.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the shore of Guangdong suffered from pirates.

In the 15th century, settlers from neighboring Negros and Bohol islands established coastline settlements in Mindanao but suffered the same raids by Chinese pirates, prompting them to also move their settlements away from the coastline.

Consequently, when the British government pacified the tribes of the lower Persian Gulf, which it had labeled as " pirates " ( hence the term " Pirate Coast "), in a series of naval engagements in the early 19th century, and then exacted from them a general surrender in 1820 and a maritime truce in the 1830s ( hence the term " Trucial " Shaikhdoms ), the Qasemi of the Persian coast were spared the ravages and humiliation suffered by their namesake in the lower Persian Gulf.

During the 17th century, the city suffered continuous attacks from pirates, including Francis Drake who opened the Pacific route to pirates in 1578.

In the 14th century the monastery suffered, like all the other monasteries of Mount Athos, from Catalan and other pirates.

This problem was compounded when Radio Caroline, in an attempt to grab some of Laser's listeners, began a 24-hour pop service on 585 kHz, shortly moving to 576, with a power of approximately 5 kW, so that in England RTÉ's frequency suffered sideband interference from both pirates.

During the Aragonese rule, Quartu suffered for famines, plague, malaria and continuous raids from Saracen pirates, following the general path of decay of the whole Sardinia.

Their offer was refused and so 23 of the pirates landed and burned the inhabitants alive in a lime cave.

But just as these islands have been uninhabited from the beginning of the world, so now the Norwegian pirates have driven away the monks ; but countless sheep and many different species of sea-fowl are to be found there ..."

Even in the Late Middle Ages, the line between traders and pirates was unclear, so that Pictish pirates were probably merchants on other occasions.

: I have been so constantly under the necessity of watching the movements of the most unprincipled set of pirates I have ever known, that all my time has been occupied in defense, in putting evidence into something like legal shape that I am the inventor of the Electro-Magnetic Telegraph !!

and is portrayed as being very arrogant, so much so that when he is captured by Xena and her pirates he is not afraid.

The 1, 000 or so pirates on the islands surrendered peacefully and the Proprietors then leased their land in the Bahamas to Rogers ' company for 21 years.

His apprenticeship indentures state that he remains apprenticed to the pirates until his 21st birthday, and so he must serve for another 63 years.

At various times governments indiscriminately granted authorization for privateering to a variety of ships, so much so that would-be pirates could easily operate under a veil of legitimacy.

The East India Company arranged for letters of marque for its East Indiamen such as the Lord Nelson, not so that they could carry cannons to fend off warships, privateers, and pirates on their voyages to India and China — that they could do without permission — but so that, should they have the opportunity to take a prize, they could do so without being guilty of piracy.

Fifty years before, the Kamakura bakufu had agreed to Korean demands that Japanese pirates ( wako ) be dealt with to stop their raids, and this bit of good diplomacy had created a cooperative relationship between the two states, such that the Koreans, helpless with a Mongol occupation army garrisoning their country, had sent much intelligence information to Japan, so that along with messages from Japanese spies in the Korean peninsula, the bakufu had a good picture of the situation of the pending Mongol invasion.

During the war of the Cilician and other pirates against Rome, the Isaurians took so active a part that the proconsul P. Servilius deemed it necessary to follow them into their rugged strongholds, and compel the whole people to submission, an exploit for which he received the title of Isauricus ( 75 BC ).

Ptolemy sent a fairly trivial sum which so amused the pirates that they released Clodius without taking any money.

Most of these films had low budgets, focusing more on barbarians and pirates so as to avoid the need for expensive sets.

Even so, most captives were pressed into hard labor in the service of the Barbary pirates, and struggled under extremely poor conditions that exposed them to vermin and disease.

In 1997, this scene was changed so that the pirates pursued women holding pies, and the large woman is chasing a pirate with a stolen ham.

Various occupations, such as sailors, fishermen and pirates employed different languages ( even from unrelated language groups ), so that crew and settlers of Iberian empires recorded as Galicians from Spain were actually using Portuguese, Arabic, Basque, Berber, Breton, Catalan, Dutch, French, Greek, Italian and Languedoc languages, which were wrongly identified.

The increasingly wealthy Spanish trading post in Zamboanga became an even more sought after prize for the Moro pirates of the era, so much so that the surrounding islands started to attract the attention of other foreign powers, and chief among these coveted islands was Basilan.

Modern views of the rise of Rome have tended to be economic, often focused on Roman control of the sea lanes, which was achieved at great cost after many sea-borne encounters with Carthage, the pirates of Macedon, and so on, all of which led ultimately to control of the Mediterranean and its important ports and bottlenecks ( such as Gibraltar, later to be critical also to the British Empire ).