Whats the difference between a buccaneer and a pirate?
A pirate is anyone who robs on the high seas. A buccaneer was a pirate who plundered in the Caribbean. The original buccaneers were French renegades who lived off stolen livestock on Hispaniola (which today is Haiti and the Dominican Republic). They smoked their meat over open fires, and so the French word for that process — boucaner, meaning “to smoke-dry” — became associated with them. This group later made their base on Tortuga and turned to piracy. Q. Was Port Royal a real place? A. Yes, and the town, which was also featured in the first film, served as the capital of the British community in Jamaica in the 17th century. But ironically, the Brits in Port Royal welcomed pirates initially, in part because of the money they spent but also in hopes that the pirates’ fearsome reputation would keep the Spanish and French from attempting to capture Jamaica. It worked. Q. So, the British government encouraged piracy? Yes and no. In some cases, the British government actually commissioned
A pirate is anyone who robs on the high seas. A buccaneer was a pirate who plundered in the Caribbean. The original buccaneers were French renegades who lived off stolen livestock on Hispaniola (which today is Haiti and the Dominican Republic). They smoked their meat over open fires, and so the French word for that process — boucaner, meaning “to smoke-dry” — became associated with them. This group later made their base on Tortuga and turned to piracy. Q. Was Port Royal a real place? A. Yes, and the town, which was also featured in the first film, served as the capital of the British community in Jamaica in the 17th century. But ironically, the Brits in Port Royal welcomed pirates initially, in part because of the money they spent but also in hopes that the pirates’ fearsome reputation would keep the Spanish and French from attempting to capture Jamaica. It worked. Q. So, the British government encouraged piracy? Yes and no. In some cases, the British government actually commissioned s
