History Summarized: The Golden Age of Piracy

Blue's back, and this time he's hoisting the black flag and preparing to board. It's okay, he's got a letter of mark.

[@TomBoygurl8]

FUN FACT: Most pirates actually went to bed below deck at around 8 pm, as they woke up at dawn. Any parents can feel free to use this to get their kids the hell to bed.

[@The0Skeleton123]

Yeah, like everybody did before electric lighting, except nightwatches and such. (and depending on latitude)

[@Yora21]

It's the tropics. By 8 it's dark outside.

[@michaelmarenda3300]

Yea!!!! It said that in the Pirates Code

[@daisygowanditchburn4844]

This may still have been at a time when people didn't usually sleep through a whole night. Used to be pretty common for people to get up in the night and go and do things (like visit neighbours) but I am not sure how far past the middle ages this persisted.

[@yasminafarih3681]

@@daisygowanditchburn4844 Oh, yeah ! I heard of that. Usually at 00 or 2am

[@Pestolents]

Fast fact! The USA has never outlawed the right to issue a letter of mark for Privateers. The TLDR is, The US still to this day reserves the right to hire Pirates.

[@AventuroPlays]

Don't say that too loud, Trump might hear it.^^

[@heartbust4624]

@@AventuroPlays lmao

[@animalia5554]

marvel dc I’m not

[@heartbust4624]

@@animalia5554 what

[@AK48smoker]

would a pmc not count as such a pirate?

[@dezopenguin9649]

The eye patch gag is a little off, as eyes were routinely damaged by flying splinters of wood in sea combat of the time. Bartholomew Roberts (Black Bart, as noted in the video)'s Articles even included a cash payout for a crew member who would lose an eye in service. ...Which means that Black Bart probably offered better health insurance than the average modern employer, but I digress.

[@timothymclean]

Also, the "adjust your eyes to darkness" thing doesn't work so well in practice. While wearing an eyepatch certainly can pre-adjust one eye to darkness, the decks of a pre-industrial ship aren't that dark. Well, the lower decks _can_ be, but the upper decks have enough doors and such in them that it's still a bit light; it's not a "sunlight one second, pitch-black the next" sort of deal. One of the few ship-jobs where you wouldn't be able to easily give your eyes time to adjust on their own without any eyepatch trickery would be firing cannons...which involves opening a little door in the side of your ship*, making dark-adjusted eyes a _liability_. *Or blowing a new hole in the side of the ship. This was not standard practice, but it was certainly possible!

[@griffinauroria4592]

*"I digress"* I don't!

[@maximusthedude8305]

Stupid american healthcare system...

[@BloodyCanoness]

Maximus The Dude non existent?

[@samwelltarly6700]

Being a sailor was dangerous as fuck back then. There was a period where the Royal Navy literally kidnapped any able-bodied men they could find in British Ports and press-ganged them into the crews of their ships because they could not find enough sailors willing sail against Dutch gun-ships. I would presume that convincing someone to be a sailor AND a fighter AND an outlaw had to come with at least a few perks, and chances are the pirate-captains were in at least a little competition for capable pirates.

[@rentheseer190]

Wait wait wait... are you telling me that one of the most known female pirates in history who only got off with a temporary pardon.... is also a wizard?!

[@p.fish_63]

Shes OP

[@Daonehelios]

She's a wizard ren

[@gryotharian]

An ILLUSIONIST, Michael

[@TardisPilot2004]

Ren the Seer hey, watch your terminology. She was a thaumaturgical adept.

[@robertdicke7249]

I am baffled as to how she managed to sneak a decent sized bird into jail to pull of the trick in the first place, and her combined luck of having a guard that cares so little about his job and maybe even freedom to follow through with that deal. This shit is almost as good as real magic. I am deciding to believe her guard was on drugs and the rest was a load of shit he actually thought happened. Like maybe she threw some cloth in the air and he legit thought she pulled a bird out of a deck.

[@samdavis9232]

Sometimes I'm not sure what parts are jokes and what parts are actual history...

[@dej1014]

Sam Davis I

[@DogFlamingoXIII]

I'm not sure he knew either.

[@paxonite-7bd5]

Sam Davis same .-.

[@ianplocki120]

I was actually thinking the same thing. Was the shopping for hats things a joke?

[@AncientHoplite]

Ian Plocki yes. Is this comment a joke? Oh god, I don't know who I am anymore. Is my comment a joke? Help

[@AegixDrakan]

I've always found it amazing how equitable pirates were to their crew. Straight up health insurance for injuries, voting system, etc, etc.

[@alchemicpunk1509]

Pirates were basically proto anarchists.

[@Visplight]

And gay rights, and apparently women's rights!

[@deborahwahl2946]

Maybe the government and big business could learn a thing or two from them.

[@fuckedupfuckedup1191]

@@Visplight most woman weren't even allowed, black beard killed the pirate who brought a woman then killed the woman and threw them both overboard

[@Visplight]

@@fuckedupfuckedup1191 Yes, but Anne Bonney and Mary Read were both famous pirates. It depends on the ship.

[@andrewb.8184]

Ok seriously how has no one made a movie based on Anne Bonny's life. She sounds like a serious badass

[@subutaynoyan5372]

All these people have a television show called Black Sails and I confirm that it is great

[@3katfox]

Because she's a woman and making a movie solely about a woman has, for the majority of movie history, been almost impossible But now with the Advent of Wonder woman, black widow and Harley Quinn maybe an Anne Bonny movie could be a possibility? 🤷‍♀️

[@jasonblalock4429]

​@@3katfox Of course, if we wanted to make a female pirate movie, Ching Shih would be a better choice considering that she's pretty universally agreed to be the most successful pirate of all time. (At least that we know about.) From lowly courtesan to leading an armada capable of fighting the entire Imperial Chinese Navy to a standstill. Now *that* would be an awesome movie! If you don't know the story, the Chinese government found her so hard to kill - and would have had such horrific losses in the process - that they offered a blanket pardon to her and over 99% of the *tens of thousands* of sailors (both men and women) under her command. They didn't even have to give their stolen goods back. She retired to her own private island, lived like a Queen on her massive mountain of loot, and spent her time investing in things like casinos and brothels. She was THE original gangster.

[@noodleznoodlez6185]

You should listen to the song Anne Bonny by karliene! I think you’d like it a lot

[@Littleman3240]

@@jasonblalock4429 Actually, I think it was a pardon for literally all of the sailors working for her, and that she also was able to keep a small fleet. The reason why the government accepted this was because of how good a goddamn pirate she was, and when they at first refused that offer, she went on one last gigantic raid to teach them a lesson.

[@AlgaeNymph]

"Did they even *have* pockets?" Sailors invented pockets, so I've read.

[@sophierobinson2738]

Women actually had pockets before men did.

[@jacobbishop8067]

@@sophierobinson2738 but they don’t have them now with most clothes

[@maggintons]

So the origin of the pirate golden age is basically why you don't give a private army too much power.

[@retardcorpsman]

yep

[@Visplight]

Also why you don't abduct people for your navy and then treat them like shit.

[@pisscvre69]

Same reason shogun ruled Japan happened so consequences may very though in both cases seems pretty violent

[@raspberrycrowns9494]

Ancient China had to learn that the hard away

[@TomnPeng]

It's really more of an evolution - private armies are cool and good when you can't afford to pay for a real army of your own but have no qualms about having private armies pay for themselves by plundering from the enemy, but once you've developed enough support infrastructure and taxation to pay for your own troops the cost/benefit of private armies start looking a whole lot worse. See also: the 30 Years War and most of early modern Europe.

[@Master_WannaBe_]

“Anne Bonny who made you cry while singing the Parting Glass” yup

[@AbbeyRoadkill1]

I wasn't even aware that song existed until AC4: Black Flag was released. Now it's one of my favorite songs ever! lol

[@willowwisp4627]

Bawled my eyes out like a baby.

[@kiranfuller6855]

Black Bart was killed off the coast of Africa but it was a luck shot from a British sailors rifle that did him in. While Bart was wildly against drinking and especially at sea, he had aloud his crew a night of drunken disorder that night. Amidst the partying they were attacked by the HMS Swallow. Bart died within the first hour of the battle and even although his crew and ship, the "Royal Fortune", were being destroyed a few able bodied crew members wrapped him in a torn piece of the main sail and cast him over board giving him a proper pirates burial at sea. His death marked the End of the Golden Age of Piracy and the Captain of the HMS Swallow became the only officer in the Royal Navy in history to be knighted solely for killing a pirate.

[@stephenskinner7207]

THANK YOU! I'm not the only one to notice this and point it out.

[@ntpgmr]

The ONE time he didn't have his policy got him killed.

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

@@ntpgmr LOL I guess they 'Swallow'-ed a bit too much!

[@ratchet1271]

I'm just a little surprised at the accuracy of Assassin's Creed 4 here. Like I know they do their homework but damn. A+ job there Ubisoft.

[@nanomachinesson2513]

And then they managed to spoil the great work they did on black flag by making Assassins Creed Unity

[@ratchet1271]

but to their defense, Assassin's Creed Rouge is pretty great. But yeah, unity is ass.

[@uria3679]

Calhare Sirros but like some glitchy games, it ended up getting fixed

[@thedoctor9440]

I like odysey

[@HovektheArtist]

Well thats because they are part of the vatican who own a real life animus

[@theMoporter]

"The same accent as every other British sailor" This is a beautiful misunderstanding.

[@thebritlanders4535]

I expect the pirate accent is some variant upon Cornish

[@stanrogers5613]

Generic and exaggerated West Country. Robert Newton had, unsurprisingly, cultivated an RP accent for professional reasons and put on a version of the accent he grew up with. And it made sense for a civilian sailor of the period to be from the West Country (Dorset, where Newton was born, Devon, Somerset or Cornwall, where he spent the latter part of his childhood) and not over-schooled. It's likely that "the pirate accent" really was _a_ pirate accent.

[@Survivalist-of-war]

There's so many y brittish accents even from county to county.

[@Blokewood3]

A little clarification on pirate myths: 1. Pirate Accents: The stereotypical pirate accent is based on the British West Country accent. Many sailors were from that area, Blackeard, Sam Bellamy and Henry Avery, were some of the particularly notorious pirates with such origins. But you are right that there was not truly a "pirate acent." Also, there were pirates of many nationalities, not just British. And England had many different accents then and today. 2. Treasure Maps. Right, no pirates made a map to their treasure, and hardly any buried it except for Francis Drake and Captain Kidd. 3. Walking the Plank. As far as we know plank-walking never happened during the Golden Age of Piracy. However, there are recorded instances of Caribbean Pirates making people walk the plank in 1822 and 1829, after the Golden Age was over. 4. Eyepatches. This is what mythbusters says, but I know of no historical references of anyone using an eyepatch for this purpose, so it seems more likely that the occasional pirate might be missing an eye and use a patch to cover it. Also, although infection was a constant danger, people could survive inuries. There were a few rare pirates with peg legs, such as Francois Leclerc and Cornelis Jol, and a few who were missing hands, such as Christopher Newport and Oruc Reis. UPDATE: The eyepatch cliche most likely comes from Rahmah ibn Jabir Al Jalhami, who really did wear an eyepatch to cover his missing eye.

[@alchemicpunk1509]

Ah, a bit of red hot iron and boiling rum ALWAYS is a good idea for such times. Except when its not.

[@goeza2940]

About the accent do u mean Welsh or Bristol

[@Blokewood3]

@@goeza2940 By West Country I mean Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire.

[@oniemployee3437]

I never understood how the idea of dispatches to keep your eyes adjusted separately would work. Sure, the eye that's adjusted to darkness will stay that way, but the moment you switch it over your "bright eye" will adjust to darkness. An eyepatch isn't going to change that.

[@DeanBritton]

Also worth mentioning that, although not widely spoken, a lot of Cornish people would have spoken the Cornish (Celtic) language which would have influenced the local dialect of English

[@barleysixseventwo6665]

*Spoiler Alert* The Kraken was eventually dealt when Spain led an armada of Floridian Crocodilians to it's lair in part motivated by a need for vengence for the Great Manatee Massacre of 1699.

[@JeanLucCaptain]

I thought it got caught in the battle of the Atlantic?

[@barleysixseventwo6665]

That was the Leviathan. Totally unrelated.

[@caseygrothe3791]

And Poseidon is locked up in Area 51.

[@ramsesquezada6473]

Aye the Manatee Massacre was a horrid night indeed

[@jakarnilson]

No, the Kraken lived until 1873, whereupon it was whacked over the head with a paddle by a pair of Newfoundland fishermen. The carcass was stored in a bathtub, and was one of the first nearly intact specimens of giant squids to be examined by the scientific community.

[@therainbowwillow4453]

It entertains and pains me to know that once Blue spoke at 999999 miles per hour like Red. I adore these artifact videos and the fact that Blue certainly recorded this in an empty cathedral

[@brassbucket1998]

"A boat can't carry a ship but a ship can carry a boat" Wise words from Edward

[@yellowstarproductions6743]

True

[@princesstarah2]

Perhaps my favorite thing that I ever learned about Anne Bonny was when Calico Jack was set to hang she told him "I'm sorry to see you this way, but if you had fought like a man you would not be hanged like a dog" which I feel like is a fair thing to tell your husband after you and your girlfriend tried to fight off a fleet of British soldiers all by yourself.

[@nightmaremono7363]

I liked Mary Read more, "If there's a man among ye, you'd come up and fight to be the man ye ought to be!" no one replied, and so she shot one of the sailors, there's also the fact that she was already a man in disguise since childhood, worked on the British Navy, got married, then widowed the next.

[@Rockarul237]

so this is basicly AC black flag but no assasins??

[@uria3679]

Dan or were there 😏

[@thelinedrive]

Not that you can really call anyone in Black Flag an actual Assassin.

[@AMP.1994]

thelinedrive Kidd was technically but of the Assassins...

[@nixtheclause9984]

Black Flag is the golden age of piracy with more sick hoods.

[@kristianthaler6525]

I was surprised they really did their homework making that game

[@ragnar97]

"Only 3 pirates ever buried their treasure and it was promptly stolen." *cough cough* Lavasseur *cough* People are still looking for parts of his treasure and the parts that have been found were found after his death.

[@diamonds9120]

I feel like this one would be a good candidate for RE-summarizing

[@AustinRiggsFire]

"you don't know Blackbart Roberts" You mean the Dread Pirate Roberts? The most successful pirate of his time? Ya, I've heard if him

[@ametsunami4070]

The ones that leave no captives alive?

[@Gilleban]

Sounds like somebody cracked a book...

[@pyrosianheir]

so what you're saying is that AC 4 did a good job.

[@shmoriy]

Very shocked at that.

[@R2D2589]

8:05 I heard she pulled a Houdini and slipped out of the cuff while on her way to prison, gave birth to a son, and lived a semi-decent life as a tailor

[@Foefaller]

I also remember there is a theory that she moved to North America and lived long enough to see the American Revolution.

Well, I heard her father, the owner of a plantation in South Carolina, pulled some strings and got her out of prision.

[@WindspriteM]

@@Foefaller I'm sure there's at least a comic book or historical fiction about it

[@Visplight]

@ This is the ruling theory - having a rich daddy gets you out of anything!

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

@ Pulled strings, greased palms, whatever...

[@sidequest2230]

you're both right and wrong about the accents thing. yeah, pirates weren't the stereotypical "yarrharhar me matey" but to say they were only british is a bit to over simplified. hell even then there a different kinds of british accents anyway, so event hen alot of'em would sound different anyway

[@emjenkins464]

FlameWhirlwind - That's why before the first pirates of the carribean film Jonny Depp stayed in Birmingham. He wanted a new pirate accent, and the sea is three hours car drive minimum in any direction from Birmingham so it's a pretty good distance of escaping charges.

[@TheMimiSard]

And in the end, the only character who used the hard R (Arr! Me matey!) was Hector Barbossa. Even just in the white man characters the accents varied, and then you pile in the international characters in the third movie who had appropriate accents for their origins.

[@Fearofthemonster]

@@emjenkins464 what charges?

[@hiimchrisj]

Hella old comment to be replying to but I believe the point he's making in the video is that they'd just sound like any other sailor. Not that the accent would literally just be a british accent for any and all pirates. Blue and Red tend to air on the side of not wanting to make sweeping assumptions, just generalizations for simplicity's sake.

[@diegoidepersia]

@@hiimchrisj well the pirate accent is an exagerated british west country accent so theres that

[@cyberredpandas1903]

I never knew how accurate AC4 was. You could've just selected half of the cutscenes from that game and it would've essentially explained everything.

[@DSFII]

I had a ad for piracy protection before this.

[@demigodgamer8517]

It's ironic that you used a Black Flag screen cap and then mentioned the whole boat vs. ship thing. In the end credits of Black Flag (SPOILER ALERT) Edward is talking with his young daughter, Jenny. He is attempting to explain the difference, and uses the exact wording, "A ship can carry a boat, but a boat cannot carry a ship". I'm realizing that may be where you got that.

[@demigodgamer8517]

Okay yeah with the number of AC4 references you made there's no way you haven't played it. Best game of the franchise imo, although I bought it for a pirate game rather than an AC game. Same with 3. I like the history parts more than the AC parts ok don't judge me.

[@williamchamberlain2263]

0:15 have you _heard_ how English people speak? "Aaaargh" _is_ a legitimate word in some accents/dialects/idioms. My home town has about four distinct accents by socio-economic status, which vary from east to west ends of town (7 miles), and then ethnic variations as well as ethno-centric accents for Afro-Caribbean, Indian, Pakistani, Italian, a smattering of east European nations, etc, etc. And that's one town. If you want to hear some weird accents you've only got to drive over to some of the small villages over toward Henley and talk to some of the old villagers; 10-20 miles and you've got people speaking like someone halfway back to Robin Hood.

[@yellowstarproductions6743]

Cool

[@georgetrittas3666]

I love how he uses AC4 to prove his points

[@yellowstarproductions6743]

Me too

[@morganhall6459]

I'm with you Blue, the ending of AC4: Black Flag made me feel too many emotions.

[@Ryuksgelus]

These videos definitely improved in quality since 2015.

[@GinnyFan765]

It’s cool to see how much Black Sails got right too. Plenty of details were changed, but the important strokes were accurate.

[@GrunkelGwen]

sorry, matey - but the eye-patch-night-vision thing is ALSO a myth (beside it's also not working). Eye-patches were just a attire to cover up a lost or wounded eye - a not-so-rare injury in an age full of black powder weapons inflicted wounds (pistol/musket malfunction, splinters from cannon ball hits, wounds from edged weapons, and eye inflammations that weren't that rare).

[@agustinvenegas5238]

Also ships were nasty, i imagine how often people got pink eye back then

[@thomasgodridge5945]

This was 9 minutes and 11 seconds well spent. Thank you OSP. This was amazing.

[@PhyreI3ird]

This is just me guessing, but weren't the pouches and satchels and the like they used then, still called pockets, even though they weren't sewn in. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, cuz again, this is just a guess.

[@eleanorbarkla2765]

I mean i have absolutely no idea about sailors, but women in the 18th century had bags they would die to their waists, and then put their skirts over and thr skirts would have slits with access

[@misekk1507]

1:30 LOL, GET REKT, N00B

[@oof-rr5nf]

Misek k Favourite part!

[@muddybuddy3598]

No, the golden age of piracy started when Gol D. Rodger was executed

[@willieoelkers5568]

No, that was the "Great Pirate Era", not the "Golden Age of Piracy".

[@ZeroX4561]

@@willieoelkers5568 they do refer to it as the golden age of piracy in the series though

[@billalzerouali4436]

@@willieoelkers5568 that's pretty much the same

[@candyman6228]

That was like a 50/50 ratio of information to jokes. I would tone the jokes back a bit. 70/30 or even 60/40 would be less jarring

[@WindspriteM]

Watch some of his newer videos. Some are completely jokeless and others (the one about Scotland) are actually relatively well-balanced.

[@blurry_face_exe60]

I can’t tell if he’s telling us actual history or just reciting the plot of Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag

[@checkouijuliet]

this is a great video but it led me down a rabbit hole cause apparently there was a dutch pirate named Cornelis Jol and MY family used to be dutch pirates (at least some of them) and the things I've found out are wild: Cornelis Corneliszoon Jol was a dutch pirate also known as Peg Leg His most recent descendant is named Martin Corneliszoon Jol Corneliszoon is like the nordic "olaf olafsson" just dutch My family were pirates My dad's name is literally Martin Cornelis My dad's DAD'S name was Cornelis Btw we never quit being captains and shit my uncle has a ship my grandpa had a ship....we love ships So my dad is literally Martin Cornelis' son My dad is married to a woman named Jolanda Which is always shortened to Jol my pirate family has a descendant named Martin who is the son of Cornelis who is married to a woman named Jol at the same time the family of one of the most well known dutch pirates has a descendant alive named Martin Corneliszoon Jol. what kind of illuminati bullshit. what is this

[@likes6894]

'A ship can carry a boat, but a boat can't carry a ship' - Captain Ed Kenway

[@ash-tv3bu]

the echo makes this feel like you're giving a lecture to a huge room full of exhausted students who literally could not care less

[@jackielinde7568]

Dude, Blue! The whole eyepatch thing was a myth and a trope that, like pirate speak, was a hollywood creation. There is no historical evidence that pirates did this. And, for the ones who lost an eye due to the activities for piracy (and managed to live) were mostly let off at the nearest port, because you don't lose JUST AN EYE with shrapnel. It's pretty much retirement.

[@McJethroPovTee]

awesome vid guys! I always enjoy yours and red's vids,

[@DimitrisGenn]

I had no idea ac4 was actually pretty accurate

[@vindication7409]

I love how he makes D&D references and it gives me life

[@lilmissannajo1371]

Another reason I love AC4 so much, pretty historically accurate for a videogame

[@firstconsul7286]

"A ship can carry a boat..." *Insert little Jenny Kenway (Scott)'s analogy about her rubber duck during the credits of AC IV*

[@Dooms-Daisy]

the story of anne bonny, calico Jack, and marry read was my favorite as a kid which if you know anything about them you'd know that that is fucked up

[@OriginalCreatorSama]

old fashioned poly relationSHIPS!!

[@thegunslinger8806]

God damn it! LOOK I SAID ID DEAL WITH THE KRAKEN ON TUESDAY! dont rush me gringo!.

[@basvanthek2951]

Wow awesome videos, keep them coming, they are amazing videos. Lol laughed like never before!!

[@hiddenone8436]

Thanks for adding some more context to the ac4 story

[@sunghaneul]

Who else is here after reading/watching One Piece & becoming absolutely obsessed with pirates? 😬

[@effello5622]

Are you stalking me?

[@anttibjorklund1869]

Sooo... you're saying we should adopt a "British Accent" on Talk Like A Pirate Day?

[@uria3679]

Yes

[@loganusher591]

This video was amazing and while I want to watch more OSP, I was just reminded that I need to go play AC: Black Flag again and completely ignore all the assassin stuff to just do the pirate-y things!

[@nikhilsingh5871]

I don't usually watch blues videos but this one was on fire

[@Volper1]

I now understand the plot of Black Sales WAY better than I did my first two times watching it.

[@theleakypen8662]

OK genuinely shocked at how apparently historically accurate Black Sails was - for a prequel to Treasure Island, they really did an incredible job!

[@hammerschattenindustries832]

bart is german for beard... yeah, he was an imposter

[@JakeLeeAnimation]

Came to watch this after the Netflix Documentary on Pirates! This was great!

[@pomponi0]

If I remember correctly, back in the 19th century (I know, it's not exactly the golden age of piracy), sailors were known to be kinda weird, picking up accents, customs and making up their own as they weren't confined to a single place. Of course "piratespeak" is silly, but I tend to believe regular people would have difficulties understanding some words

[@yellowstarproductions6743]

Interesting.

[@harton2759]

only just watched the first minute and already i cannot thank this guy enough

[@DariyusKabraji]

Bonny took over as the Jackdaw’s quartermaster, duh

[@crubrutockcsgo]

0:48 ahhh edward kenway said this at the end of ac4 to his daughter that game makes me cry everytime

[@jamierobinson3349]

Hahaha! 😂 Dude, as a bit of a Pirate fan myself, that was freaking awesome! 😂👍🤘

[@Mailed-Knight]

Funny I always saw Ben as the good guy for giving up his life of crime and refusing to kill his own countrymen. I always saw Black Beard as the bad guy because he supposedly killed his own men to take their gold and died because of it.

[@p.fish_63]

Hornigold was a traitor and a snitch rule #1 no snitching

[@tenhirankei]

He wasn't as bad as the fellow also named for the color of his beard. That one killed his wives!

[@ghoulisnotaghost7982]

From what I've research, Blackbeard was actually a pretty cool guy and he only killed (approx.) 1 or 2 guys in his life. The rest of the time he used hella cool intimidation tactics and was a decent strategist.

[@Mailed-Knight]

@@ghoulisnotaghost7982 Yeah conflicting stories and such. Hence the 'supposedly' part of my comment.

[@ghoulisnotaghost7982]

@@Mailed-Knight that's fair enough. I love learning this kind of history and especially reading comments to see what others think.

[@raxit1337]

"And Anne Bonny, who made you cry when she sang 'parting glass'" ...Fuck. You got me.

[@cursedalien]

Born too late for maritime piracy. Born too early for space piracy. Born just in time for digital piracy.

[@dankellyvox]

Listening on headphones for the 1st time. Is there so much reverb on your voice because that sounds better on phone speakers? Apologies for the geeky and unrelated question. (Love the videos)

[@Grim_Sister]

“Dumber Jack Sparrow.” Wait, that’s possible?!

[@Gilleban]

The flag attributed to Jack Rackham is the flag Disney uses as Jack Sparrow's flag on the Black Pearl.

[@raidernation2163]

Funny because Calico Jack Rackham was portrayed as a very clever man in the live action Black Sails TV series

[@planetbooktube8196]

As hysterical as that was, you actually managed to get every fact about piracy right. Well done 😁

[@yellowstarproductions6743]

I agree

[@aurthurpendragon1015]

Blue: Only two or three pirates were stupid enough to bury their treasure, and all of it was probably stolen later. Olivier Levasseur: AM I A JOKE TO YOU!?

[@TrabberShir]

Now that the algorithm has recommended a 5 year old video, I understand the channel name.

[@SunnyD420]

1:23 I really really love this, he didn't use mercator projection!!! Bravo, bravo👏

[@scottrauch1261]

i hate any moment of really good luck cause the universe tends to beat me over the head with bad luck.

[@augustrempelewert4377]

How come this video is SO much goofier than Blue's other videos that I've seen? Have I just not been watching the right ones?

[@Rubenlagriculture]

Its true. We all cried during the parting glass.

[@alexandereick1260]

'came to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and tragically they were all out of bubble gum." that's the best thing I've ever heard

[@bigdaddy2429]

We need this RE-Summarized

[@TheSquirter]

*sees first frame* Huzzah! A man of quality!

[@AventuroPlays]

Great video!

[@DooD7th]

I've been running a dnd campaign for 4 months now with my friends and next session is the final episode and a kraken is the final boss of the campaign lol. Great vid man :)

[@heartbust4624]

How did it go lol, if u did it yet that is

[@DooD7th]

@@heartbust4624 they managed to escape unharmed then proceeded to kill an ancient blue dragon, I love my players ❤️

[@Dovey12]

The parting glass slaps though!

[@thememorablenovelist5876]

i love your videos so much 😚😚

[@SunnyD420]

0:48 I love this little nod to ac4 black flag😂😂👌

[@user-uh7wj7wt6s]

I'm listening to this 8 years from release date and boy it sounds different

[@daburgerbandit1598]

Assassin's Creed taught me more about piracy than Hollywood. :P

[@dianacramer8280]

awesome, thank you

[@dameonmgriffin8923]

ok i'm sick of this myth that pirates used eye patches to have one eye adjusted to the dark. first off i've never seen any evidence to support this claim. second the likelihood that you would loose a body part while at see was a huge risk. third there are records of pirate crews covering the loot owed to a crewmen for loosing an eye or any other body part at sea or in combat in there ships articles or crews contract. so considering they themselves recognized the need to compensate injured crewmen for exactly this injury i think its fair to say that a fair number of pirates wore eye patches because they lost an eye. im not saying the one eye adjusted to the dark would not be useful to them but saying thats why they wore eye patches is just false and not grounded in evidence

[@vaibhavmadan7125]

This vid makes me believe that any history in the form of a assains creed game can be learnt

[@Bardic_Knowledge]

Listening to this again after Our Flag Means Death has been out and I've learned a bit through Tumblr posts, I think it'd be interesting to see a video on Blackbeard specifically or something.

[@mastercontender1782]

EPIC reverb!!

[@chrisleonard2066]

I like the echo as if this was recorded in an empty cathedral lmao

[@masterofmythology]

I learned all my pirate lore from Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag. Thank you Ubisoft.

[@danieldeclue1466]

I always loved the book under the Black Flag because it goes over most of these misconceptions and romanticized ideas about pirates from this age.

[@edwardaugustus9680]

I am a decedent of Woods Rogers (the only famous ancestor i have so i always love it when he is mentioned.

[@silvertheelf]

They spoke like Jack Sparrow and were rockstars that were hated by everyone. “WHAT ARRR YOU DOING!” “No what are you doing?” “NO WHAT ARRR YOU DOING!” “No what are you doing?” ...

[@incognitoburrito6020]

What was the picture at 3:44? I remember seeing a speed drawing (speed photoshop?) of it that I want to find again, but I've never been able to.

[@adisura9904]

Is this one of your earlier videos? Its very different from the ones im accustomed to