The " privateers ' republic " in Nassau became a " pirates ' republic ".

Founded in antiquity as a Phoenician colony, it became a haven for pirates as an independent republic before being incorporated into Alaouite Morocco.

Ibn Battuta's ship almost sank on embarking from Sri Lanka, only for the vessel that came to his rescue to suffer an attack by pirates.

This deployment came after a series of attacks and attempted hijackings on Chinese vessels by Somali pirates.

* The Ming Dynasty government of China issues a decree banning all foreign trade and closes down all seaports along the coast ; these Hai jin laws came during the Wokou wars with Japanese pirates, while the Portuguese began regular trade missions to China in 1449, and the ban on maritime trade was fully lifted in 1567.

On the other hand, residents of Harbor Island were happy to serve as middlemen for the pirates, as merchants from New England and Virginia came there to exchange needed supplies for pirate plunder.

Around the time of her first husband's death came the initial complaints to the English Council in Dublin from Galway's city leaders that O ' Flaherty and Ní Mháille ships were behaving like pirates.

Arab invaders and Berber pirates came from North Africa to the Coast of Provence in the beginning of the 7th century.

Many pirates came to the Caribbean after the end of the War of the Spanish Succession, staying in the Caribbean and becoming pirates.

In 1809, the last major river pirate activity took place, on the Upper Mississippi River, and river piracy in this area came to an abrupt end, when a group of flatboatmen, meeting at the head of the Nine Mile Reach, decided to make a raid on Stack Island and wipe out the river pirates.

It was here that Demeter, disguised as an old lady who was abducted by pirates in Crete, came to an old well where the four daughters of the local king Keleos and his queen Metaneira ( Kallidike, Kleisidike, Demo and Kallithoe ) found her and took her to their palace to nurse the son of Keleos and Metaneira, Demophoon.

During his maritime missions, on several occasions Zheng's fleet came into conflict with pirates.

When he was sixteen, Sun Jian travelled with his father to Qiantang ( 錢唐, present day Hangzhou, Zhejiang ), where they came upon a band of pirates dividing up their spoils on land.

With the ever-increasing number of raids against Joseon conducted by Japanese pirates ( wakō ) and the Red Turbans invasions of Korea, those who came to dominate the royal court were the reformed-minded Sinjin aristocracy and the opposing Gweonmun aristocracy, as well as generals who could actually fight off the foreign threats — namely a talented general named Yi Seong-gye and his rival Choe Yeong.

He came up with a famous tactic, which is to change the advancing direction in front of enemy referring to an ancient book on Japanese pirates ' tactics.

While such raids had occurred since soon after the Muslim conquest of the region, the terms Barbary pirates and Barbary corsairs are normally applied to the raiders active from the 16th century onwards, when the frequency and range of the slavers ' attacks increased and Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli came under the sovereignty of the Ottoman Empire, either as directly administered provinces or as autonomous dependencies known as the Barbary States.

This mestizo culture includes influences from Spanish Extremadura and Andalucia, African influence due to the arrival of slaves from Madagascar ( Malgache slaves ), the Chinese coolies that migrated from Canton to work the rice fields and replace the slaves ; and also Roma Gypsies who came as pirates looking for pearls or incognito as Spanish horsemen.

While sailing, they came across a pirate ship that had recently lost its captain, and the pirates elected Awilda as their captain.

From then until 1816 many pirates came to the archipelago.

But ... in the morning, at the time that the inhabitants were occupied with their affairs, a fleet of 3, 000 Saxon pirates came and prepared to land .... Marcouf prostrated himself on the ground and began to pray.

The attack came just one day after Captain Richard Phillips was rescued from Somali pirates after their failed hijacking of the MV Maersk Alabama.

The townspeople of Myra were celebrating the good saint on the eve of his feast day when a band of Arab pirates from Crete came into the district.

According to the Zhouhai Tubian, Satsuma, Higo, and Nagato were the Japanese provinces that were the most prolific breeding grounds of the pirates ; next came Ōsumi, Chikuzen, Chikugo, Hakata, Hyuga, Settsu, Harima, and the island of Tanegashima.

An English ballad and legend tell a story of Robin Hood encountering French pirates who came to pillage the fisherman's boats and the northeast coast.

It was also at this time that Captain Henry Keppel came to Singapore and helped to clear the Straits of pirates.

These first settlements were abandoned after attacks by Spanish privateers, but English privateers often used the Cayman Islands as a base and in the 18th century they became an increasingly popular hideout for pirates, even after the end of legitimate privateering in 1713.

* 61 BC – Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.

* September 29 – Pompey, the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars.

On 31 January 1830, the Polignac government decided to send a military expedition to Algeria to put an end to the threat the Algerian pirates posed to Mediterranean trade and also increase the government's popularity by a victory.

Michael Wood suggests that the Sherden were an important part of the bands of pirates that disrupted Aegean trade in the end of the 13th century BCE, and that their raids contributed greatly to the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization.

To that end, they added details like a pirate ship or pirates talking in the background of scenes.

With the end of the Roman Empire, Ostia fell slowly into decay, and was finally abandoned in the 9th century due to the repeated invasions and sackings by Arab pirates, including the Battle of Ostia, a naval battle in 849 between Christian and Saracens ; the remaining inhabitants moved to Gregoriopolis.

At the hanging of two of John Phillips ' pirates, the Boston News-Letter reported " At one end of the gallows was their own dark flag, in the middle of which an anatomy, and at one side of it a dart in the heart, with drops of blood proceeding from it ; and on the other side an hour-glass.

In the end, they get married and start selling dreams to pirates, while having many adventures.

Seeing no end to the raids and attacks by the pirates, the Shou Emperor amassed a fleet of 100, 000 ships to launch an invasion of Wa.

Instead, one turntable features two pirates running in a circle, each holding one end of a treasure chest.

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.

The ship is captured by Barbary pirates, and the end of the book has Jack as a captured galley-slave.

It was an effort to destroy all of the Barbary pirates, free the American slaves in captivity, and put an end to piracy acts between these warring tribes on the part of the Barbary states.

The United States Navy was founded, in part, to counter the activities of the Barbary pirates, and the United States fought the First and Second Barbary Wars ( 1801 – 1805, 1815 ) to end this threat to its shipping.

To this end, he enlists the help of chronicler John Reed ( Maury Chaykin ), who often follows pirates to write his books.

Towards the end of the 3rd century, a Roman naval commander named Carausius was given the task of clearing pirates from the sea between the Roman provinces in Britain, or " Britannia ", and on the European mainland.

* To the end of the ninth century: The fall of the Roman Empire, pirates, privateers are the country with fire and sword.

The title character from the first book of the trilogy, Sassinak teams up the main character from the second, her great grandmother Lunzie, to end the threat of the planet pirates.

CRY had been on air for almost a decade and was one of the longest surviving pirates in Ireland when it closed at the end of 1988.

With the end of the War of 1812, Henley filled a variety of billets before commanding Hornet against pirates in the West Indies.