The French called filibusters the sea robbers of the West Indies, who, based on the islands of Tortuga, Hispaniola (Haiti), and others, attacked Spanish ships and settlements in America. Having settled in the first third of the 17th century in the “no man’s land” of the Antilles archipelago, filibusters traded in piracy, obeying no one and guided by their own laws and customs. Their ranks were constantly replenished by persons who participated in overseas expansion and colonization of the West Indies: sailors from merchant, military and corsair ships, smugglers, soldiers dismissed or escaped from service, bankrupt petty nobles, farmers, lumberjacks, artisans and peasants, fugitives or indentured servants who had served their time, insolvent debtors, buccaneers, escaped convicts, as well as Indians from a number of Central American tribes who were at enmity with the Spaniards. The new book by the famous historian of piracy V.K. Gubarev talks about the martial art of filibusters and their most desperate leaders