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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.
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But the pirates had suffered so many casualties ( 120 Danes dead against 62 Frisians and English ), that they had difficulties putting out to sea.
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.
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Beginning in the 1520s, the Caribbean Sea was raided by increasingly numerous French pirates.
Coastal settlements were raided by Saxon pirates.
The Moors, starting in the 8th century, also raided coastal areas around the Mediterranean and Atlantic Ocean, and became known as the Barbary pirates.
The Vikings ( from Old Norse ) were the Norse explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who raided, traded, explored and settled in wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic islands from the late 8th to the mid-11th century.
The most widely known and far reaching pirates in medieval Europe were the Vikings, warriors and looters from Scandinavia who raided mainly between the 8th and 12th centuries, during the Viking Age in the Early Middle Ages.
From 824 to 961 Arab pirates in the Emirate of Crete raided the entire Mediterranean.
In 1803, at Tower Rock, the U. S. Army dragoons, possibly, from the frontier army post up river at Fort Kaskaskia, on the Illinois side opposite St. Louis, raided and drove out the river pirates.
Even though pirates raided many ships, few, if any, buried their treasure.
After the fall of the Roman Empire, the coasts on the Irish Sea were raided by pirates either from Eastern Ireland or Western Scotland.
The Saracens allowed the port to be used as a safe haven for pirates who operated against Imperial shipping and raided Imperial territory around the Aegean.
According to Gesta Danorum, Alfhild, daughter of the Geatish king Siward, was a shield maiden, who had her own fleet of viking ships, with crews of young female pirates, who raided along the coasts of the Baltic Sea.
In early May 1717, several pirates from their snow ( a type of two masted vessel ), the Anne, raided several vessels that were off the shore of Matinicus at the time.
About the same time Saxon pirates raided Britain, which Constantine had left defenseless.
Vikings were Scandinavian warriors, pirates and traders who raided the coasts of Britain, Ireland and mainland Europe as far as Al-Andalus and Italy from the late 8th – 11th century.
In the late 3rd century, London was raided on several occasions by Saxon pirates.
In the 1540s and 1550s, Japanese pirates known as wokou raided China's eastern and southeastern coasts on an unprecedented scale.
During the Hai Dynasty in Shou Lung when Wa pirates raided the Celestial Sea and the Shou coastlines, the Shou Emperor was convinced that the Wa warlords had something to do with it.
In Byzantine times, Poros and other islands were often raided by pirates.
The pirates then raided Spanish settlements in Peru before returning to the Caribbean.
In 1677 it was raided by French pirates, who burnt down its City Hall, thus destroying many very important documents about the early settlement of Venezuela.
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.
In the late third century, Londinium was raided on several occasions by Saxon pirates.
Despite the isolation, the waters of Flores were frequently raided by pirates.
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The destruction of this chief sally-port of the Wendish pirates enabled Absalon considerably to reduce the Danish fleet.
The Spanish Empire claimed the islands by discovery in the early 16th century, but never settled them, and subsequent years saw the English, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Danish all jostling for control of the region, which became a notorious haunt for pirates.
These pirates, which are called wichingi by their own people, and Ascomanni by our own people, pay tribute to the Danish king " in the fourth volume of his Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum.
Further, St. Thomas became a base for pirates and privateers which the Danish Governor either could not or would not stop.
The Danish Virgin Islands were also used as a base for pirates.
In his Ynglinga saga, Snorri Sturluson relates that Anund succeeded his father Ingvar on the Swedish throne, and after his father's wars against Danish Vikings and Estonian pirates, peace reigned over Sweden and there were good harvests.
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Battles were fought between Swedish and Danish forces and even pirates over control of the castle in the Middle Ages.
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