A pirate is someone who commits robberies at sea, usually without being appointed to do so by any particular nation. Pirates are one of the most feared criminals, the terrorize the Aegean Sea, destroying all vessels and pilfering riverside villages. Moreover, a pirate has become a symbol of a commonplace criminal off the Somali and Singapore coasts and in the waters between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. A pirate would be seen wearing a long top and pants, a sword or two, a dagger (small knife), boots and a wide pirate hat.
The Buccaneers were a specific group of privateers and pirates who were active in the late 1600's. Many of the men who fought alongside Captain Henry Morgan were buccaneers. These men set up a business of selling their smoked meat …show more content…
The Barbary pirates, Muslims who terrorized the Mediterranean from the fourteenth until the nineteenth centuries, were often referred to as "corsairs" because they did not attack Muslim ships and often sold prisoners into slavery. During the "Golden Age" of Piracy, French privateers were referred to as corsairs. It was a very negative term in English at the time: in 1668, Henry Morgan was deeply offended when a Spanish official called him a corsair (of course, he had just sacked the city of Portobello and was demanding a ransom for not burning it to the ground, so maybe the Spanish were offended,