Skip to content
🇭🇹   BETA  ·  9,789 entries published  ·  90,211 entries away from the 100k milestone.       🇭🇹   BETA  ·  9,789 entries published  ·  90,211 entries away from the 100k milestone.       
You are offline — some content may not be available
1629

1629: A Spanish armament expelled a body of French and English enslavers from the island of St. Christopher with circumstances of outrageous barbarity.

1629: A Spanish armament expelled a body of French and English enslavers from the island of St. Christopher with circumstances of outrageous barbarity. These exiles fled in open boats and possessed themselves of the small unoccupied island of Tortuga, eventually forming the daring band of adventurers known as the Buccaneers.

Source  ·  p. 124 Edwards, Historical Survey, 124