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Buccaneers

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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An association, chiefly English and French, of piratical adventurers in the 16th and 17th centuries, with their head-quarters in the Caribbean Sea, organised to plunder the ships of the Spaniards in resentment of the exclusive right they claimed to the wealth of the S. American continent, which they were carrying home across the sea.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Buccaneers'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​b/buccaneers.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
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