I believe I've read somewhere that pirates actually wore eye patches so that one of their eyes was always used to the dark, making moving around below deck much easier.
The eye patch was for boarding a ship and going below decks. When they'd go below, they'd flip up the patch and thus have an eye already acclimated to the dark.
Yep, that is for sure. There were undoubtedly one-eyed pirates. The funny thing is, I'm an artist and when I was getting my MFA in illustration, I studied Howard Pyle, the great illustrator from the late 1800s and early 1900s, who taught many illustrators who became legendary later on... Anyway, Pyle basically created the modern notions of how pirates dressed, etc., through how he illustrated his books. NC Wyeth, one of Pyle's students, also became influential in this. Even "Pirates of the Caribbean" used Wyeth and Pyle heavily in the costume and cinematography. So, as far as pirate wear and eye patches, I'm sure some of them used them for going below decks, and some of course used them because they were missing eyes!
#7: It's not just pirates who were amputees, it was sailors in general. The rigging of a large ship is a dangerous place. A sudden wind shift or a broken line could cause someone to be killed or severely injured by the ropes. Mythbusters disproved the idea that the whip of a rope was the hazard, but still a hand or foot could be sawed off by a fast moving rope.
Black Beard's real name for sure wasn't Edward Teach. That was his alias. Most pirates did this as to not bring the government's wrath down on their families back in their homeland.
@@WoodlouseFairy umm not necessarily you got to remember why we know what we know about blackbeard it was becasuse the trial of stede bonnet blackbeard was killed before bonnet but as he was saying lots of pirates would use fake names to possibly go back home so we will never know if his name was in fact edward
I don't understand why Bartholomew Roberts never makes these kinds of lists. Not only was he far and away the most successful pirate of his day, but the Dread Pirate Roberts is named after him!
Did you or the other 126 people who thought this comment was worthy of up vote, even see the video? The first item is the only one which relates to an actual pirate, namely the most feared, Edward Teach. Drake's mention was incidental to the distinction between buccaneers and privateers. It was not as you say top ten pirates, it only referred to the top ONE pirate and nine other facts thereafter. Morons.
GrassPossum - #10 - Blackbeard #6 - Charles Vane #5 - Edward Low #4 - Henry Morgan #3 -Daniel Montbars #2 - Francois L'ollonais #1 - Olivier Levasseur Your point about Drake being incidental to the description of privateers is fair enough, but 7 out of 10 items on the list were about individual pirates, not about pirates in general. The video didn't even generalize facts about those individual pirates and hold them up as examples of characteristics shared by other pirates.
the cutlass wasn't created until the Napoleonic era. the swords used by pirate varied. The pirate used a swords under a category of cutlass but it was a category which involved hangers, falchions and short sabers. Pirate also carried small sword, rapiers, spadroons, Katanas, backswords and most other sword of the era.
a potential one for you, look at the top 10 most destructive ships of their kinds. aka most ships sunk by submarine, air craft carrier, battle ship, ram ship, ship of the line ect
9:46 - "in the Indian Ocean off the western coast of Africa". Um, shouldn't that be the eastern coast of Africa? Off the western coast of Africa is the Atlantic Ocean.
ok good video but let me correct a few things, blackbeard has been thought to have named his ship because he was a privateer in Queen Ann's war, and just after the Charleston port hold up he purposely ran the revenge aground and made it look like an accident to his crew, he then marooned most of his crew on an island, so when Maynard the man sent to kill him attacked blackbeard was aboard a smaller sloop with around 8 guns. also buccaneer is derived from a French word (bo-can-ear) meaning a type of meat basically beef and pork jerky, now the people who made a business hunting and selling the meat to other ships where usually good maybe take a ship or two but that"s about it, now the Spanish thought that since they where the once who originally brought the animals to the Caribbean that it was their meat so the went after those people and in return they attacked and sacked many Spanish forts, so in essence the Spanish are the once who sparked the golden age of pirates.
He forgot to say one of the biggest things that Vane is known for. Vane leading a fleet took a major British fort which was Nassau. Come on man, you can't forget that!
One of my ancestors was a French pirate captain. He was captured in the Caribbean with a crew of 52 men on the sloop Le Zephyr Captain Bartholomew Marucheau
Why wouldnt he? There are hundreds of sources of ancient warriors doing crazy shit like this. Hell theres sources for soldiers during WW2 doing shit like that. Whos to say he wasnt standing at the top of the stairs and just stabbed anyone coming up the stairs with a big fucking sword or a spear? A single viking at the battle of Stamford Bridge was able to hold back the entire Anglo-Saxon army simply by standing on the bridge and killing anyone who tried to cross. That was 15,000 against 1.
fatbap also, those ancient warriors skills of killing could have been changed throughout the years and people would make them over the top, and WW2 was mostly just propaganda, so i wouldn't believe everything they say about a guy taking out 70 people by himself
One other thing about Blackbeard was that he used to brag about the fact that, except for being caught in the occasional rain storm, he hadn't bathed in over 12 years. People used to say that he "stank like a herd of hogs".
My great (insert great a few other times) uncle was in Blackbeard’s crew, when Blackbeard’s died he returned to England where he was wanted so he took his family to hide in rural wales. This resulted in me being called sheep shagger when I told my friends my fathers side of the family is Welsh and I have a stupid welsh name (Lloyd)
John "Black Bart" Roberts was king of the pirates during the golden age of piracy. He captured somewhere in the ball park of 400 vessels, insisted his crew attended church service on pain of death and was a tea toddler. Let that WTF sink in.
There was a young man, surname Waring, who's ship he was sailing on was taken by buccaneers. But instead of killing him, they dropped him off just off the shores of England and he swam to shore a free man. This doesn't sound like something a pirate would do.
The comment regarding a blunderbuss having to be fired from the hip is incorrect. The blunderbuss was simply a large gauge shotgun "smoothbore" with the barrel flared for easier reloading on a pitching ship or a coach. The sea borne guns were bronze or brass to prevent rusting. A 4 gauge blunderbuss was not unusual and can be fired from the shoulder without injury. I enjoyed the segment about Montbars, a good Frenchman!
Sirs , While on the whole I find your videos terribly well made , fascinatingly entertaining , and blindinly luminous I am compelled by justice to vehemently protest the validity of your Top 10 Pirates due to the conspicuous absence of Captain Jean Lafitte . A fierce creature of such unmatched prowess , power and prestige that one can scarcely believe the tale despite it's unassailable veracity . Cpt. LaFitte with the aid of his brother Pierre was a varitable King in the pestilenctial swamp in the Mississippi river delta south of New Orleans known as Barriterria Bay. He had such success plundering the cargo ships transiting the Gulf of Mexico that when the Governor of the Louisiana territory put a $500 bounty of his head Captain Lafitte responded by putting a $1000 bounty on Governor Claiborne's head ! He and his men where instrumental in the resounding American victory over the British at the Battle of New Orleans. Commanding the artillery with devastating effect only to be betrayed after the battle was won by future president and all around rascal , General Andrew Jackson . Jackson forced Lafitte out of his Barrateiria Bay stronghold in a most ungrateful manner after his service to the city of New Orleans and the fledgling United States. Captain Lafitte , not a the sort to be put off by a little thing like ingratouitous backstabbery , being a pirate and whatnot , promptly struck a deal with the Spanish where by Lafitte would act as an informal agent of the crown in any disputes regarding the disputed territory between the Sabine and Vermilion rivers in modern day southwestern Louisiana. The area was claimed by Spain , America and France . Declaring the area a "no man's land" the three agreed that none would garrison the area. Leaving it open to anyone that could hold it . With no meddlesome government to stop him Lafitte built a varitable wonderland of piratanical bliss on Galveston Island , TX. . He spent his efforts pilfering , plundering , and pillaging the Gulf of Mexico and presiding over the endless Bacchanalia of Pirvana until once again some anointed bink came along and booted the bollocks right off of the Captain's dream. Disconsolate , Captain Lafitte resigned to abandon Piratopia forever but not before he ordered the entire city of Galveston along with most his fleet burned or sunk and sailing away through the smoke never to be heard from again... Now , you tell me : With a story like that how in bloody blue Hell dosen't he make the top 10 Pirates !?! SO.... Amend ye scribbles , ye gaggle o' scurvied scoundrels else prepare thine souls for the setting of ye celestial sails !!
pirates almost never had eye patches for a missing eye, they didnt have lights so they had 1 eye already used to the dark, meanwhile others would have 25-40 minutes blinded
I have read that theory - and then there are others who illustrate that there were a number of famous military commanders and heroes from that time who were not pirates that actually DID have eye patches over missing eyes and were actually missing legs and arms too - Blas de Lezo for instance - and that later writers and Hollywood added these items to their characters to make them more interesting to the reader/viewer.
"Buccaneers...were former servants who walked away from their contracts working the sugar plantations on the many Carribean Islands" - Slavery involved contracts?
Yes, it's called Indentured Servitude. It's where you pay someone by drawing up a contract to work for a person as payment for a certain number of years, usually seven.
How about equal time for the ladies!! How about a video that highlights the daring of some of the women pirates? One such female that comes to mind for me is, Anne Bonny. Her name indirectly came to mind when I was watching an episode of the recent Tin Tin movie and there was mention of a pirate by the name of, "Rackham". She purportedly had a child by Rackham. He died (having been sentenced to death), she lived, became pregnant (purportedly) by him. She too was sentenced....the pregnancy apparently got her off the hook. Then not to long after this revelation she disappeared from all known written records. Mary Read is another female pirate. Hope you consider the suggestion. Thanks for the consideration.
Incredibly interesting and horrifying. Many never understand how difficult even normal life was then. Beyond that, making a real name (good or bad) took almost super-human effort!!!
A pirate with a 16th century musket, whether it's a "Buccaneer Musket" or not, would be hard pressed to hit anything 300 yards away, let alone the helmsman off an enemy deck while on the deck of a moving ship himself.
Simon, my guy, I'm always amazed at your perfect English so I was rather surprised to hear you say "he was hung"... when you hang a person, they get hanged, not hung. I know it sounds incorrect but it is actually the correct way to say it in the English language...
Well... the bullet may reach that distance, that's possible - but the accuracy is practically zero with a musket if the target is further away than about 50 meters.
I could see them lining up a volley of ten or fifteen aimed at a helmsman of the opposite ship. Chances are that one would hit somewhere to wound or spook them off the helm. They probably didn't fire off a volley at 300 yards though.
@ 9.46 he decided to sail in the Indian Ocean on the west coast of Africa, last time I looked the Indian Ocean is on the east coast of Africa, I could be wrong but I think the South Atlantic is on the west coast of Africa, of course if your looking at Africa upside-down, nar, still the same
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I believe I've read somewhere that pirates actually wore eye patches so that one of their eyes was always used to the dark, making moving around below deck much easier.
Ye that’s true
I heard the same. It makes a lot of sense.
Mythbusters proved that it was true, it. Allows the nightsight to be preserved
That’s true my friend
You’d think using only one eye on deck, fighting, would really screw up their sense of distance.
you forgot Jack Sparrow who was marooned on an island and escaped by tying together a raft mad of turtles with his back hair
The eye patch was for boarding a ship and going below decks. When they'd go below, they'd flip up the patch and thus have an eye already acclimated to the dark.
Seriously or are you joking. LOL!
He serious
It was useful for that sure (tested it on Mythbusters) but some were probably one-eyed
Yep, that is for sure. There were undoubtedly one-eyed pirates. The funny thing is, I'm an artist and when I was getting my MFA in illustration, I studied Howard Pyle, the great illustrator from the late 1800s and early 1900s, who taught many illustrators who became legendary later on...
Anyway, Pyle basically created the modern notions of how pirates dressed, etc., through how he illustrated his books. NC Wyeth, one of Pyle's students, also became influential in this. Even "Pirates of the Caribbean" used Wyeth and Pyle heavily in the costume and cinematography.
So, as far as pirate wear and eye patches, I'm sure some of them used them for going below decks, and some of course used them because they were missing eyes!
@@SketchpadWarrior Wonder why no other navies either did it or aren't as famous for doing it. Dress code ? Regulations ? Not necessary ?
#7: It's not just pirates who were amputees, it was sailors in general. The rigging of a large ship is a dangerous place. A sudden wind shift or a broken line could cause someone to be killed or severely injured by the ropes. Mythbusters disproved the idea that the whip of a rope was the hazard, but still a hand or foot could be sawed off by a fast moving rope.
"Raped, tortured and murdered everyone." Dude had some stamina
Black Beard's real name for sure wasn't Edward Teach. That was his alias. Most pirates did this as to not bring the government's wrath down on their families back in their homeland.
i have it from the HIGHEST SOURCE that his real name was infact edward teach.
@@nickclark18 yes i have researched and his name was definitely edward teach.
@@WoodlouseFairy umm not necessarily you got to remember why we know what we know about blackbeard it was becasuse the trial of stede bonnet blackbeard was killed before bonnet but as he was saying lots of pirates would use fake names to possibly go back home so we will never know if his name was in fact edward
@@crazyshuttle7883 yeah, there's a chance he wasn't but still
Edward low...i low key thought he was about to say Kenway xD
“Money was my only aim”
Nothing is true everything is permitted
Nothing is true everything is permitted
I can't believe Ching Shih, the Pirate Queen isn't on this list. Her story is absolutely badass on top of being insane and unbelievable.
I don't understand why Bartholomew Roberts never makes these kinds of lists. Not only was he far and away the most successful pirate of his day, but the Dread Pirate Roberts is named after him!
Black sail was soooooo underrated
This felt like top ten pirates not top ten pirate facts
GEnARaTIoNKiLLer ! I loved Captain "Hooks for Hands and Wooden Legs"
Did you or the other 126 people who thought this comment was worthy of up vote, even see the video? The first item is the only one which relates to an actual pirate, namely the most feared, Edward Teach. Drake's mention was incidental to the distinction between buccaneers and privateers. It was not as you say top ten pirates, it only referred to the top ONE pirate and nine other facts thereafter. Morons.
GrassPossum did you watch the video cough cough... #10, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
GrassPossum -
#10 - Blackbeard
#6 - Charles Vane
#5 - Edward Low
#4 - Henry Morgan
#3 -Daniel Montbars
#2 - Francois L'ollonais
#1 - Olivier Levasseur
Your point about Drake being incidental to the description of privateers is fair enough, but 7 out of 10 items on the list were about individual pirates, not about pirates in general. The video didn't even generalize facts about those individual pirates and hold them up as examples of characteristics shared by other pirates.
Nobody talks about Peter Easton -_-
With no1, how is the Indian Ocean on the west coast of Africa?
Raven Blackwood I know that. I'm trying to find out why Simon thinks it is.
I was going to ask the same question. It was probably just a brain fart.
What about the Dread Pirate Roberts?
Holy cow i dreamed about him last night. Using his left hand to fight, then changing to his right to finish the duel.
Because no one would surrender to the *DREAD PIRATE WESTLEY*
😂
Ah ha hahahahhahaga
I’m Dread Pirate Roberts #3527. Inquire about franchising opportunities in your area.
Never understood why pirates are passed off as lovable rogues, suitable for the entertainment of children.
Same with Robin Hood :D
For the same reason that people idolize Mafia gangsters...they're morons.
bet youre fun at parties eh?
10:25 me telling the boys about this girl I saw at the mall
Michael Torres im ded
lmaoooooo
😂
🤣🤘🏼👏🏻
GG
the cutlass wasn't created until the Napoleonic era. the swords used by pirate varied. The pirate used a swords under a category of cutlass but it was a category which involved hangers, falchions and short sabers. Pirate also carried small sword, rapiers, spadroons, Katanas, backswords and most other sword of the era.
“While on the subject of psychotic Frenchmen..”
Spoken like a true Englishman!
😂😂🙏🏻
BlackBeard also killed one of his crewmemebers to steal his devil fruit, in order to become one of the seen warlords
*seven
Coded Hazin' One Pice is love, One Piece is life
Andrey Chaves León in order to become Pirate King *
he is now a yonko..with the strongest devil fruit power..with probably 2 more
Andrey Chaves León we are not talking about one piece
You forgot about the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers!⚾️🏈
Aye n you forgot to stop been a wee boaby for 11 minutes
@@John3li no nintendo?
Ching Shih, Liz Killigrew, Sayyida al-Hurra, Anne Bonny & Mary Read have incredible stories.
They undercut creators ability to profit off their intellectual property? Do I have the wrong type of pirate?
Ibraheem Productions word.
Vincent Adultman
u earned my like i guess
You forgot to mention Ching Shih the infamous notorious pirate of South China Sea.
Amin Shahril crikey, it was a woman! I just googled the name, fascinating stuff!
There were several female pirates.
With all the tattoos now days you' d think every one wants to be a pirate.
Ching Shih, Liz Killigrew, Sayyida al-Hurra, Anne Bonny & Mary Read have incredible stories.
I've been enjoying your videos, keep them up!
i just noticed that I was unubbed to you guys. So subbed again. Damn yt please fix your shit.
a potential one for you, look at the top 10 most destructive ships of their kinds. aka most ships sunk by submarine, air craft carrier, battle ship, ram ship, ship of the line ect
9:46 - "in the Indian Ocean off the western coast of Africa". Um, shouldn't that be the eastern coast of Africa? Off the western coast of Africa is the Atlantic Ocean.
Silkendrum ~ brain fart. They make so many of these, (daily) edits like that sometimes slip through.
ok good video but let me correct a few things, blackbeard has been thought to have named his ship because he was a privateer in Queen Ann's war, and just after the Charleston port hold up he purposely ran the revenge aground and made it look like an accident to his crew, he then marooned most of his crew on an island, so when Maynard the man sent to kill him attacked blackbeard was aboard a smaller sloop with around 8 guns. also buccaneer is derived from a French word (bo-can-ear) meaning a type of meat basically beef and pork jerky, now the people who made a business hunting and selling the meat to other ships where usually good maybe take a ship or two but that"s about it, now the Spanish thought that since they where the once who originally brought the animals to the Caribbean that it was their meat so the went after those people and in return they attacked and sacked many Spanish forts, so in essence the Spanish are the once who sparked the golden age of pirates.
The most famous pirate to have a peg leg was a French corsair named Jacques de Sora's.
Dear Lord, Simon, that portuguese pronunciation was murdered.
Keep up the great effort and videos.
Deuz197 I think we need to keep a body count of the words that Simon sends to an early grave.
He forgot to say one of the biggest things that Vane is known for. Vane leading a fleet took a major British fort which was Nassau. Come on man, you can't forget that!
One of my ancestors was a French pirate captain. He was captured in the Caribbean with a crew of 52 men on the sloop Le Zephyr Captain Bartholomew Marucheau
Cool story bro 👍
Wow that’s cool
Sad story
Women like "Grace" O'Malley were conspicuously absent. Is there another list coming? Not that there has to be, just wondering.
Great video. How about one on the way British "obtained their crew and their cruel way of treating their men?
Will you do top ten cool facts and terrifying facts on wolves or bears
This video makes me wanna play black flag all over again, what a game
Your forgot Edward Kenway.
Edward Newgate you mean?
Pinhead Larry lol assassins creed
Pinhead Larry you mean Edward steal your girl kenway
I already completed ac4
Love that game
Nothing about Anne bonny??? waat?
Shw never exist
Pirates are totally cooler than ninjas
ninjas are gay
Pirate ninjas
Comrade Potato one piece and naruto?? 😁😁
ive just discovered your channel and have been binge watching your videos. very interesting content of which I enjoy . thank you very much
2:57 *It is alleged Keira Knightley held [had 2 Blunderbuss Weapons] But did not Display in Open Combat - but used a Body Double !*
Black Bart Roberts took the most ships.
most successful pirate of his time ^^
Black Beard was a bully.
Then there was Capt. James Hook, who tried tirelessly to kill that kid, Peter Pan , to no avail, or success.
I'm from the Caribbean, and we still use cutlasses! =D
Doctor D are u a pirate
Bo Zo No. The Brits outlawed the practice and the queen is still our head of state, I believe.
Doctor D what do you use them for?
Little Lad 000 To cut things! :D
+Doctor D where do you live?
eyyy where's Gol D. Roger?
shout out to the one piece reference
Mr. Popohere He wasn't bad.
Mr. Popohere It's #1
Love these Pirates video want to watch more
You left out how BLACKBEARD TOOK ON LIKE 70 MEN AND KILLED ALMOST HALF OF THEM BY HIMSELF
Cuba Libre Ball The lasty
......70 men....do you seriously believe that?
Why wouldnt he? There are hundreds of sources of ancient warriors doing crazy shit like this. Hell theres sources for soldiers during WW2 doing shit like that. Whos to say he wasnt standing at the top of the stairs and just stabbed anyone coming up the stairs with a big fucking sword or a spear? A single viking at the battle of Stamford Bridge was able to hold back the entire Anglo-Saxon army simply by standing on the bridge and killing anyone who tried to cross. That was 15,000 against 1.
Cuba Libre Ball thats a myth...and anyway, what about the other half...
fatbap also, those ancient warriors skills of killing could have been changed throughout the years and people would make them over the top, and WW2 was mostly just propaganda, so i wouldn't believe everything they say about a guy taking out 70 people by himself
One other thing about Blackbeard was that he used to brag about the fact that, except for being caught in the occasional rain storm, he hadn't bathed in over 12 years. People used to say that he "stank like a herd of hogs".
Not very horrifying, just informative.
I think roasting a woman alive on a stove is fairly horrifying.
Gotta admit! They were creative!
Blackbeard also married a southern belle at one point of I’m not mistaken...
Blackbeard also kneecapped one of his crew members because he lost a game of cards (Blackbeard was the one that lost the game of cards)
Oh yeah really who told you that? Blackbeard? A crew member?
You made that up..
Francois L'Ollonais?
More like Francis Lolwut!
-I'm dead on the inside.-
Capt. Raptor k
My great (insert great a few other times) uncle was in Blackbeard’s crew, when Blackbeard’s died he returned to England where he was wanted so he took his family to hide in rural wales. This resulted in me being called sheep shagger when I told my friends my fathers side of the family is Welsh and I have a stupid welsh name (Lloyd)
amazing! i sometimes wonder if i have piracy in my blood.
What an absolutely fascinating video.
Sigh... I really miss this channel.
Happy belated birthday Simon.
Young Simon looks so much different than he does now. It's so cute lol
HANGED! He was HANGED! A picture is HUNG a person is HANGED!
@Caleb Santos ... I’m a person and I’m hung!
Jurys are hung, and they are people, mostly.
None of these are "horrifying" facts. Let's tone down the clickbait.
Yeah yeah tough guy... Try not to sh* your pants while facing Blackbeard, aight?
@@Zhy-Fi.X Blackbeard is 340 years old, I could totally take him.
@@JsDs1020 Lmfao
Now I just want to play Sid Meier's Pirates.
Try pirates of the burning sea. Fun mmorpg
Captain Jack Sparrow
Black Sails reference that's what I was trying to say
Blackbeard was from Bristol in England !! My home City !
Nice video, but Olivier Lavasseur didn't attack a Galleon, Nossa Senhora do Cabo was a different type of ship.
what's up Simon? another good video bud.
What about horrifying facts about modern day pirates.
Aaro Hirvensalo I'm also referring to the pirates that steal intellectual property like music, movies, tv shows, games, etc from the studios.
Nathaniel Enochs r u pretty
today we are all internet pirates arrr
Except me I'm a real one
Pirates of Somalia, comming in July 2020
I'm surprised Madam Ching/Ching Shih didn't make the list. She was badass, and lived long enough to actually retire from piracy.
I knew a guy who had a blunderbuss and they aren't that bad to shoot from the shoulder.
no you didnt, you are infact talking shite.
Charles Vane active 1716-1720, but died in 1718?
lostit462 no
@@Dima-xx9ph glad im not the only one who noticed that!
He was executed in March of 1721
John "Black Bart" Roberts was king of the pirates during the golden age of piracy. He captured somewhere in the ball park of 400 vessels, insisted his crew attended church service on pain of death and was a tea toddler. Let that WTF sink in.
Woah! They made one piece into a real thing!!
stupid people like turn everything into anime!!! u suck!!!!
What about captain jack sparrow!!! :v
Who was he? what year was he active?
why is the rume gone?
oh I hope you're joking. He was a character from the "Pirate's of the Caribbean" movies, and that's all.
This is the top ten horrifying facts about REAL pirates, NOT butt pirates
jack sparow did actually exist, but his name wasnt jack sparrow
Master and Commander has a great scene where the doc had to perform surgery on himself. True story.
There was a young man, surname Waring, who's ship he was sailing on was taken by buccaneers. But instead of killing him, they dropped him off just off the shores of England and he swam to shore a free man. This doesn't sound like something a pirate would do.
The comment regarding a blunderbuss having to be fired from the hip is incorrect. The blunderbuss was simply a large gauge shotgun "smoothbore" with the barrel flared for easier reloading on a pitching ship or a coach. The sea borne guns were bronze or brass to prevent rusting. A 4 gauge blunderbuss was not unusual and can be fired from the shoulder without injury.
I enjoyed the segment about Montbars, a good Frenchman!
Sirs ,
While on the whole I find your videos terribly well made , fascinatingly entertaining , and blindinly luminous I am compelled by justice to vehemently protest the validity of your Top 10 Pirates due to the conspicuous absence of Captain Jean Lafitte . A fierce creature of such unmatched prowess , power and prestige that one can scarcely believe the tale despite it's unassailable veracity .
Cpt. LaFitte with the aid of his brother Pierre was a varitable King in the pestilenctial swamp in the Mississippi river delta south of New Orleans known as Barriterria Bay. He had such success plundering the cargo ships transiting the Gulf of Mexico that when the Governor of the Louisiana territory put a $500 bounty of his head Captain Lafitte responded by putting a $1000 bounty on Governor Claiborne's head !
He and his men where instrumental in the resounding American victory over the British at the Battle of New Orleans. Commanding the artillery with devastating effect only to be betrayed after the battle was won by future president and all around rascal , General Andrew Jackson . Jackson forced Lafitte out of his Barrateiria Bay stronghold in a most ungrateful manner after his service to the city of New Orleans and the fledgling United States.
Captain Lafitte , not a the sort to be put off by a little thing like ingratouitous
backstabbery , being a pirate and whatnot , promptly struck a deal with the Spanish where by Lafitte would act as an informal agent of the crown in any disputes regarding the disputed territory between the Sabine and Vermilion rivers in modern day southwestern Louisiana. The area was claimed by Spain , America and France . Declaring the area a "no man's land" the three agreed that none would garrison the area. Leaving it open to anyone that could hold it . With no meddlesome government to stop him Lafitte built a varitable wonderland of piratanical bliss on Galveston Island , TX. . He spent his efforts pilfering , plundering , and pillaging the Gulf of Mexico and presiding over the endless Bacchanalia of Pirvana until once again some anointed bink came along and booted the bollocks right off of the Captain's dream. Disconsolate , Captain Lafitte resigned to abandon Piratopia forever but not before he ordered the entire city of Galveston along with most his fleet burned or sunk and sailing away through the smoke never to be heard from again...
Now , you tell me : With a story like that how in bloody blue Hell dosen't he make the top 10 Pirates !?!
SO.... Amend ye scribbles , ye gaggle o' scurvied scoundrels else prepare thine souls for the setting of ye celestial sails !!
How can you not mention Bartholomew Roberts? Probably the most successful pirate.
pirates almost never had eye patches for a missing eye, they didnt have lights so they had 1 eye already used to the dark, meanwhile others would have 25-40 minutes blinded
When fighting below decks.
Demonmixer or just being below deck in general...
Mitchell Hogg
Yep.
I have read that theory - and then there are others who illustrate that there were a number of famous military commanders and heroes from that time who were not pirates that actually DID have eye patches over missing eyes and were actually missing legs and arms too - Blas de Lezo for instance - and that later writers and Hollywood added these items to their characters to make them more interesting to the reader/viewer.
"Buccaneers...were former servants who walked away from their contracts working the sugar plantations on the many Carribean Islands" - Slavery involved contracts?
Yes, it's called Indentured Servitude. It's where you pay someone by drawing up a contract to work for a person as payment for a certain number of years, usually seven.
He didnt mention contracts....
I remember reading our history book in high school about Francis Drake, attacking El Morro of San Juan when he try to invade Puerto Rico .
Yes indeed, and the population of Puerto Rico fought alongside the Spaniards and they repelled the pirate.
What about the fact it took 7 musket shots and around 20 cutlass slashes and stabs to kill Blackbeard???
How about equal time for the ladies!! How about a video that highlights the daring of some of the women pirates?
One such female that comes to mind for me is, Anne Bonny. Her name indirectly came to mind when I was watching an episode of the recent Tin Tin movie and there was mention of a pirate by the name of, "Rackham". She purportedly had a child by Rackham. He died (having been sentenced to death), she lived, became pregnant (purportedly) by him. She too was sentenced....the pregnancy apparently got her off the hook. Then not to long after this revelation she disappeared from all known written records.
Mary Read is another female pirate. Hope you consider the suggestion. Thanks for the consideration.
YES! YES! YES!
Everything I know I learned from Simon Whistler.
Incredibly interesting and horrifying. Many never understand how difficult even normal life was then. Beyond that, making a real name (good or bad) took almost super-human effort!!!
Hey, its widly believed blackbeard treated his captives with the great respect, and the man who killed him was a coward.
Jeffery beaty .Its widely believed that you're an idiot to believe that.
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A pirate with a 16th century musket, whether it's a "Buccaneer Musket" or not, would be hard pressed to hit anything 300 yards away, let alone the helmsman off an enemy deck while on the deck of a moving ship himself.
Simon, my guy, I'm always amazed at your perfect English so I was rather surprised to hear you say "he was hung"... when you hang a person, they get hanged, not hung. I know it sounds incorrect but it is actually the correct way to say it in the English language...
Hung... Like a donkey?
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But, why are the rum gone ?.. Henry took it !
Dang, Top Tenz is my top addiction keeping me from mowing the lawn. My wife is really p..sed. Nice work.
Where's Jack Sparrow tho👀
The last pirate was not "hung" but rather "hanged." Common error.
Francois L'olonnais also cut open a Spaniard and tore out his heart and ate it. He called himself an "expert torturer" as well. Psychopath, indeed.
I don't believe the "Buccaneer Muskets" had a range of 300 yards. Lol.
Well... the bullet may reach that distance, that's possible - but the accuracy is practically zero with a musket if the target is further away than about 50 meters.
skrivbok Hence my point.
HighSpeedNoDrag muskets had pretty respectable ranges...
I could see them lining up a volley of ten or fifteen aimed at a helmsman of the opposite ship. Chances are that one would hit somewhere to wound or spook them off the helm. They probably didn't fire off a volley at 300 yards though.
LETS JUST HINK ABOUT SEA OF THIEVES AND PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN! y'know happy thoughts
Assassins Creed Black Flag... One of the best video games ever made! 😀
Montbars actually seems like a good pirate
@ 9.46 he decided to sail in the Indian Ocean on the west coast of Africa, last time I looked the Indian Ocean is on the east coast of Africa, I could be wrong but I think the South Atlantic is on the west coast of Africa, of course if your looking at Africa upside-down, nar, still the same
Wasn't Blackbeard meant to be an enormous man? That would be scary enough by itself.
What about the myth of pirates always having parrots ?
Privateers and buccaneers, So that's where A Clockwork Orange originated.
annette fournier you have no idea what you're even trying to sound smart about lol
In Portuguese, the two letters nh are read as ñ in Spanish.
I heard about Ferdinand de Magellan who travelled around the world back in the 1500. It was definitely not Francis Drake
Juan Gonzalez First Englishman. Magellan's crew were first. Magellan himself died on the way.
How about a ten horrifying facts vid on accountants?
Great video!! Seems fairly accurate when fact checking. For once no politics, Love it! !