Tortuga: The Infamous Pirate Hideout for the Brethren of the Coast

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Before it could become the most internationally recognizable part of Haiti, the Island of Tortuga served as a de facto command center for an infamous band of Golden Age Pirates called the Brethren of the Coast.

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Source/Further reading:

Alexander Exquemelin’s‘ The Buccaneers of America’

https://books.google.com/books/about/...

https://books.google.com/books/about/...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24476354


C C Haring’s ‘The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century’

https://archive.org/details/buccaneer...


Angus Kostam’s ‘Buccaneers’

https://www.scribd.com/document/25207...


G F Dow and J H Edmonds’ ‘The Pirates of the New England Coast 1630-1730’

https://www.scribd.com/book/271642076


The ‘Matelotage’

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...


Intro Song:

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/yeban...