The Pirate History Podcast

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Episode 156 - High Treason Mar 17, 2020

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The English Civil War arrived in America when a trader named Richard Ingle was accused of Parliamentarian sympathies. Today's drama will set off the first wave of piracy in English North America - a period known as The Plundering Time.

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Episode 155 - Grevious Crimes of Pyracie & Murder Part 2 Mar 10, 2020

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The fighting on the Chesapeake exploded in the 1630s between Virginia and Maryland. The trading post on Kent Island was under siege, but a series of small successes attracted more and more sailors until Kent Island looked very much like a pirate haven.

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Episode 154 - Grevious Crimes of Pyracie & Murder Part 1 Mar 04, 2020

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Jamestown, Virginia was growing into a viable colony when another party entered the American Colonial world. A formidable Catholic family moved in on the northeast coast of Chesapeake Bay, igniting a fight that would erupt in a scourge of piracy.

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Episode 153 - The Scum of Men Feb 25, 2020

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This is the story of the first act of piracy in the North American English colonies. But really it's a story of rich, greedy, prideful, selfish, downright evil men. And the evil men aren't the pirates. And Christopher Newport, but he's cool.

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Episode 152 - An Ambitious Unworthy & Vainglorious Fellow Feb 18, 2020

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This is the story of Sir Christopher Newport & John Smith and the colony at Jamestown. Smith is often lauded as the driving force behind the first successful English colony in the New World, but he was little more than a con man. It's a very opinionated episode.

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Episode 151 - The Lost Colony Feb 11, 2020

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The colony at Roanoke has long been an integral part of American Mythology, and the mystery of the Lost Colony has fascinated people for centuries. But should it? Today we talk about Roanoke's lost colonists, and the pirates that led to their disappearance.

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Episode 150 - Roanoke Feb 04, 2020

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It's time we discussed the colonization of North America. The Nine Years War will introduce the world to pirates from New York, Boston, and Providence that will shape our story. However, North America's story is replete with pirates from the very beginning.

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Episode 149 - War! Jan 29, 2020

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We're discussing the outbreak of the Nine Years War. The Huguenot population were pushed into exile, many to England, where they fed into the anti-Catholic, anti-Stuart movement. William III taking the English throne changed the dynamics drastically and what was supposed to be a quick war turned into something much bigger.

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Episode 148 - Femme Fatale Jan 22, 2020

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In the 1670s King Louis XIV was the most powerful Monarch in world. France stood atop the cultural and military pyramid of Europe, but the cracks were beginning to show. The decline of France and her King began when one beautiful, dangerous woman introduced nefarious elements into the court.

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Episode 147 - The Sun Was High Jan 14, 2020

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This is the story of the French Zenith, through the lens of foreign policy and war. King Louis XIV came into his majority and almost immediately began a series of wars that made him the most powerful and influential monarch in Europe. It's good to be the king.

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