The 5 greatest Sea Battles from the Golden Age of Piracy

[@Ukkomečo]

Holy shit thank you for never using AI slop images on your videos.

[@Uncle_Roadkill]

I'm something of a guitard myself

[@kitsimmonds.344]

Likewise, I attempt to learn the instrument in high school, after two years I was still rubbish. So I am most certainly a solid Guitard.

[@mageillus]

Same, I’ve only focused on playing cover songs and not bothering with music theory

[@cr0sad3r70]

True, my friends always call me acoustic

[@DragonsAndDragons777]

@@cr0sad3r70 XD

[@RordanGamsay]

Thats guitarded

[@unknowntrooper_2791]

Have to add about the Blackbeard battle as it is a real head head-scratcher: Looking at Maynard's report the battle had several phases with different casualties. First there was some shooting, then Maynard tried to Board BB and then finally BB boarded Maynard. It is indeed true that none of the navy men died in the specific part of the engagement when Blackbeard boarded Maynard's sloop, but many were wounded. As for total losses for the action (including shooting before boarding and Maynard's attempt to board Blackbeard) Maynard wrote how "In the whole I had eight Men Kill'd, and 18 wounded. We killed 12 besides Blackbeard..." Oddly before this he wrote how he had "20 kill'd" when he boarded Blackbeard but does not indicate properly if these were pirates or navymen. He did state that 12 navymen he had left behind on board his sloop killed the attacking pirates who made the counter boarding (this is the only part of the battle depicted usually) "without a loss of one man on their side". All in all it is a very messy report but as I understand Maynard lost at least 8 men dead in all parts of the action combined and his consort had separate losses including the commander Mr. Hyde, pirates perhaps three times more. All of these navy losses happened before Blackbeard boarded the sloop so yeah it is not that impressive especially since it is possible BB had no kills at all, despite taking many hits as told by Maynard. (Pirates in their Own Words document 72). I am sure there are other sources of this event too, some may be contradictory. Would be great to have the battle discussed in a future vid in more detail, especially with resources of the actual Blackbeard researchers. Cheers! 🏴‍☠

[@piraticvs]

Eeeyyyy! Nice to hear the cannon intro again!

[@lalo2papi775]

I’m excited to see a land engagement video❤

[@whyjnot420]

This is making me want to play Sid Meier's Pirates!

[@ettinsoft]

"Ok...I GUESS if you guys want me to??" That had me rolling 🤣

[@unknowntrooper_2791]

Really good content. Interested to have more of this kind of vids on sea and land engagements. Nice picks here. Gonna trow a few doubloons later. Cheers!

[@donaldpetersen2382]

Five minutes in and things are heating up fast. Gold and Gunpowder making fantastic content as usual

[@Mattulaak]

I love how you try to avoid the most popular battles but Henry Morgan is just such an anomaly that a list without him is incomplete!

[@ethangonzalez8904]

Definitely borrowing "guitard" for later use 😂

[@unknowntrooper_2791]

Again great stuff. Cheers! 🏴‍☠

[@guld1999]

Love to listen and watch along while gaming please keep up the good work Greetings from 🇩🇰

[@victorthomaslucero4645]

Interesting and entertaining, thank you matey!

[@cyclesaviorn2700]

How could so many pirate have not known they were going to be hanged if they surrendered? Did some not get hanged so they had hope in surrender?

[@Eithne21]

I learned a lot. Thank you

[@arcofspira]

Awesome video!

[@attitudestick761]

Great video, we definetely want to know about land engagements too!

[@seawitch66]

Hey Skipper. +1 for Land battle's. I was just reading about the history of Castillo San Carlos, Maracaibo after watching your video. The attack in 1666 by François L'Olonnais, the devil incarnate and "scouge of the Spanish". Now that's was one sick puppy, and we wonder why pirates get a bad name.🏴‍☠️

[@thedisneycentralhub5876]

Ah. I think you’re forgetting one of my greatest sea battles on Sea of Thieves. That was a glorious fight indeed

[@monkstery]

I hope there’s another one of these someday! Hopefully we get to see the Ganj I Sawai capture as that battle was pretty climactic with the pirates taking on a much more heavily armed opponent, partially winning by luck, and both sides taking heavy casualties in the fighting, with the impact of the raid on pirate history arguably being one of the most pivotal moments ever in sea rover history. The Battle of Cape Fear River and capture of Stede Bonnet is also a good one, not as massive but it is interesting that an overall lackluster pirate like Bonnet very nearly defeated a hardened veteran and seasoned pirate hunter like William Rhett, even inflicting more casualties on the hunters. An underrated battle which connects to this video is the Lynnhaven Bay 1699 action between John James and HMS Essex Prize, James seized a merchant right under the navy ship’s nose then battered her with gunfire until she retreated, a rare win for a pirate ship over a British navy vessel, James was also an eccentric figure overall, allegedly according to Grey he was Henry Every’s quartermaster and flew a green flag with gold scimitars taken from the Gunsway (could be true, description is very close to the ‘Grand Admiral of Surat flag’ found in some period map charts), and he was described as exceedingly ugly by a prisoner, to whom he bragged about being William Kidd (despite the crew still calling him James, the prisoner still believed him somehow), and also repeatedly stating he would rather trade with Englishmen than rob them, while robbing an Englishman (curiously, almost the same exact message conveyed by Every). Edit: forgot to mention the connection to the video, James’s success in the region against a coastal guard vessel inspired Guittard to attempt a repeat of his victory, directly leading to his defeat and death.

[@GoldandGunpowder]

capture of the gunsway is probably another honorable mention purely because there isn't a lot of detailed information about the engagement itself, whereas in these picks most of the precise tactical decisions were documented

[@unknowntrooper_2791]

I would also note here too as a possible future suggestion or an honorable mention of a battle in 1707 when a lone pirate brigantine, possibly under Captain John Halsey, engaged four Indiamen near Bab-el-Mandeb in the Red Sea and boarded two very rich ships, causing several losses in the first battle despite company men's resistance. I discussed this in the GnG Discord. The battle is described in Charles Grey's old book Pirates of the Eastern Seas (Grey offers long source quotes of official EIC correspondence in pages 275-279.). There also hast to be some interesting earlier buccaneer sea engagements... I would think especially if we take Frenchmen who went into the Pacific into account, a quick search shows how Raveneau de Lussan told of a battle between several buccaneers including Captain Grogniet and a Spanish flotilla, but pirates got a bloody nose here in the end. We can also look at the privateers like Rogers we also have a battle against Spanish Manila Galleon. Returning to Red Sea men we of course have Culliford against Indiaman Dorril too, even if the battle was never resolved properly making it less impactful. I agree about Bonnet's last fight and think it does greatly differ from the pirate captures in dishonorable mentions here in the video. Then there is also Captain Martel's capture which has some similarities with the Bannister story even if the pirates failed in the end. Also Some French filibustiers attacked English traders a lot in the 1680s so there are those stories too. Anyway just thinking aloud but there should be enough of these for a future follow up vids...

[@Stevie-903]

Super cool video! Here before this is one of your top 5.

[@gregshipley9729]

Great video. Thanks

[@nagjrcjasonbower]

Nice! PLEASE DO LAND ENGAGEMENTS!!!

[@TheCrapOnYourStrapOn]

50% of land engagements just lead to divorce now a days.

[@mageillus]

Land engagements PLEASE!

[@TheCrapOnYourStrapOn]

I took part in a land engagement on a beach. Divorced now though.

[@jonathangodin4775]

Thank you so much for igniting an interest in pirates that I didn’t even know I had! I had just finished black sails and had an itch for more things about pirates so I googled “best KZbin pirates history channels” and I’m very happy that yours ended up being the first recommendation! I would like to know how you became so knowledgeable and where I can look to do more of my own research?!

[@Milo_1368]

@8:20 To be fair. Inflicting casualties is rarely the end goal of combat. Achieving a goal with minimal losses is.

[@mrfoxgamer4202]

We want more!

[@dylang1090]

Great video love to see more

[@TheCrapOnYourStrapOn]

Feet videos

[@dylang1090]

@TheCrapOnYourStrapOn yes

[@RietasB.Murunen]

BATTLE SEA MEN

[@TheCrapOnYourStrapOn]

Way ahead of you. I shivered me timbers 3 times today already

[@magicpyroninja]

0:52 It rather annoys me when people today think that pirates were these bloodthirsty murderers who killed everyone They saw sunk every ship they came across and stole everything they wanted And they absolutely refuse to accept the fact that most pirates tried to go after people they could force to surrender without a fight because they didn't have infinite replacements to keep filling their crew with

[@creepingdread88]

That's true, for the most part, but at the same time, some pirates were bloodthirsty murderers who killed everyone. If the pirate in question raised something like a black and white skull and crossbones, for example, they just intended to loot what they could, but not harm anyone, if possible. If, however, the pirate in question, raised a black flag with red on it, that was to show, they did intend to spill blood, and kill anyone who got in their way. In most cases, pirates simply wanted to relieve other ships of their valuables, with as little bloodshed as possible, but there were some sadistic pirates who enjoyed the violence too. Then you have the British vs the Spanish and French, the Catholics vs Protestant, aspects too. Some situations are more volatile than others.

[@HandyMan657]

Well, mate, if you're going to do a set on great sea battles I think it only appropriate for you to do a set of land battles as well. Ya know, to keep the balance and all. Thanks, take care.

[@TheCrapOnYourStrapOn]

Many famous pirate land battles to cover

[@loganw1232]

Great videi

[@Hysterion]

Lol i'm playing Naval Action right now and you release a new video...🤭

[@comms9803]

Has it got any better or has it got worse?

[@playmoypunto]

Hola. Muy buen material. Sería interesante activar los subtitulos en español 🏴‍☠️

[@mikew3194]

Follow up & land battles

[@Nihility15]

hell yeah bro

[@kylemackinnon5696]

5 great battles, less than half what we hoped for

[@kevinice2841]

Land battles, please!

[@jacktribble5253]

These would be better pirate movies than the recycled tropes and redundant "Retelling" of the past eighteen years.

[@malapertfourohfour2112]

Jack Sparrow has really dragged down the quality of pirate films

[@FalkyRocket2222]

​@@malapertfourohfour2112hes fine imo, the thing is that the franchise is supposed to be pure fantasy with swashbuckling characters and comedy and the other filmmakers want to integrate all that into their movies which are supposed to be serious and historical just because of the success potc got

[@jamesmoore3694]

another graduate class in AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGG your work be well made

[@ok3804]

good video can you talk about kingdom of algiers (regency of algiers)

[@DragonsAndDragons777]

Next up, ten hours of swashbuckling pirate stories

[@TheCrapOnYourStrapOn]

Blow me down. See this is why my wife left me

[@edwardanderson1053]

It is possible that Jean Lafite and his crew may have fought the largest pirate land battle at the Battle of New Orleans. He had his own crew plus the militia of New Orleans denizens were most probably also smugglers,pirates and various riff raff. Unfortunately his final battle at Galveston Bay against the US Federal government was reported to be epic, though not well documented, and his death was a mystery.

[@levitatingoctahedron922]

28:40 "the richest heist in all of history" someone needs to do some reading on private central banking...

[@aceous99]

nice stories but how could muskets shoot away a mast?

[@Balrog4242]

10 million pts for actually pronouncing portobello and cartagena correctly, you now outrank all other piratologists 😂

[@bstuna13]

You forgot the best pirate the world has ever seen!! Ok so it was four decades after the end of the Golden Age of Piracy, he’s still the best: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGWqfKWwnZaqpbMsi=1NbxbUjH2HDlwV5Y

[@Ukkomečo]

God I love this accent! 🙂👍 🙃👎

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[@sebastianthomsen2225]

☠👍

[@JosephHolness-u2m]

Where's the Pirates of the Caribbean sea battles? 😂

[@jill-ti7oe]

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