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Identifier: historyofamericap02wils (find matches)
Title: A history of the American people
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
Subjects: United States -- History
Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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COLONEL RHET1 AND IHE PIRATE sTl.IU. BONNE) COMMON I NDERTAK1NGS ill the Bahamas, and sweeping the sea as they daredfrom Brazil to Newfoundland. But tlie day of theirreckoning was near at hand. South Carolina hadcleared her own coasts for a little at the beginning ofthe century, but the robbers swarmed at her inlets againwhen the Indian massacres had weakened and dis-tracted her, and the end of the war with France setmany a roving privateersman free to return to piracy.The crisis and turning-point came in the year 1718.That year an English fleet crossed the sea, took NewProvidence, purged the Bahamas of piracy, and madehenceforth a stronghold there for law and order. Thatsame year Stede Bonnet, of Barbadoes, a man whohad but the other day held a majors commission inher Majestys service, honored and of easy fortune,but now turned pirate, as if for pastime, was caughtat the mouth of the Cape Fear by armed ships underredoubtable Colonel Rhett, who had driven the Frenchout of Charleston h

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