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Essay Archive - The Sea Dogs... Puppets in a Political War
The Sea Dogs... Puppets in a Political War
Sea dogs of the 1500 and 1600's worked for queen Elizabeth, robbing
and pillaging the Spaniards. Over this period of 200 years many shipments
of gold and treasure were stolen from Spanish ships while they were sailing
from port to port on the Spanish main. In one attack the infamous Francis
Drake, “...surprised and attacked a heavily laden string of 200 mules. The
booty that Drake captured in this attack included 30 tons of heavy silver
ingots” (Cochran 28).
There were many different and obscure English privateers who
pirated against the Spanish, but only three of them live....
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