State-Sponsored Piracy: A Historical Overview
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Your favorite pirates were actually government employees with a license to steal. Spain was basically
the world’s ATM in the 1500s, hauling insane amounts of gold and silver from the Americas.
England and France were jealous but broke, so instead of building navies,
they hired privateers like Francis Drake. These guys legally robbed Spanish fleets and split the cash
with the Queen. It got even wilder with the Buccaneers in Jamaica—Captain Morgan literally
burned down Panama City and got knighted for it. It wasn't until the wars ended that
they went rogue, proving the Golden Age of Piracy was really just a massive state-sponsored
heist.
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