Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Preface; John Bromley, Historian; Publications of J.S. Bromley; 1 Outlaws at Sea, 1660-1720: Liberty, Equality and Fraternity among Caribbean Freebooters; 2 Colonies at War; 3 A Letter-Book of Robert Cole, British Consul-General at Algiers, 1694-1712; 4 The North Sea in Wartime, 1688-1713; 5 The Importance of Dunkirk Reconsidered, 1688-1713; 6 Jacques-Winoc Plets, armateur en course (c. 1650-1716); 7 Quelques réflections sur le fonctionnement des classes maritimes en France, 1689-1713; 8 The Jacobite Privateers in the Nine Years War.
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Two societies, two conceptions of justice, collaborated and collided when French forces stormed Cartagena of the Indies in May 1697. For their commander, the baron de Pointis, a naval captain in the mould of Drake, this bloody if strategically pointless success fulfilled a long-postponed design ""that might be both honourable and advantageous"", with ships lent and soldiers (but not seamen) paid by the King, who in return would take the Crown''s usual one-fifth interest in such ""preis de vaisseaux"", the remaining costs falling on private subscribers, in this case no less than 666 of them, he.
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