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Nightmare Island. Book 2. Sails and Guns

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Nightmare Island. Book 2. Sails and Guns
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The logic of the English in the 16th – 17th centuries was simple: if you don’t have your own, you need to take away someone else’s. So, under Queen Elizabeth, piracy (i.e. sea robbery, murder and violence) was elevated to the rank of valiant service to the fatherland and was encouraged in every possible way. The English literally put the pirate craft on a conveyor belt, turning it into a branch of state industry, which was actively sponsored by both rich merchants and noble lords. And Queen Elizabeth herself, by the way. In 1562, the pirate John Hawkins brought more than a thousand black slaves to England. For his success in a business new to England, Elizabeth awarded him the rank of admiral. In addition, she officially allowed him to include in his family coat of arms the image of a black man in chains…
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