In the history of maritime robbery, it is difficult to find a more sinister figure than the “general of the pirates of Tortuga” Francois Olone. His first bio...

Few filibuster leaders could boast such a long and eventful career as John Coxon, but he has been underestimated by historians, being overshadowed by his mor...

The next e-book from the series “Pirates, corsairs, filibusters” is dedicated to little-known pages of the life and pirate adventures of one of the leaders o...

Francis Drake, Henry Morgan, Jean Bart, Peter Hein, Pierre Lemoine d'Iberville, Paul Jones, Thomas Cavendish, Oliver van Noort, William Dampier, Woods Rogers...

A new book by historian, marine painter Viktor Gubarev introduces readers to one of the most significant anti-Spanish expeditions of the English corsair and ...

The French called filibusters the sea robbers of the West Indies, who, based on the islands of Tortuga, Hispaniola (Haiti), and others, attacked Spanish ship...

Spanish planter Antonio Benavides secretly arrives in Port Royal, where he negotiates with his business partner Collins to smuggle a shipment of African slav...

When it comes to pirates, the same mythical images usually appear in the minds of most people: a one-legged or one-eyed thug with a gold earring in his ear a...

Thanks to adventure literature and cinema, a persistent stereotype of the classic pirate has become firmly established in the public consciousness: a one-leg...

The pirate frigate "Royal Hunter" captures the ship "Providence", belonging to the Royal African Company, in the waters of the Gulf of Guinea. A box containi...

The book by a Russian historian and marine painter introduces the reader to the biography of the most famous English corsair and naval commander, the first E...

For the first time, the Russian reader has the opportunity to get acquainted with the true history of the filibusters of the island of Jamaica in the period ...