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REVISED AND UPDATED 2023. At the end of the 17th century Nicolas Hugon des Demaines of Granville achieved success as a corsair captain with the support and financial backing of his five brothers. With the wealth arising out of his privateering he established a fishing fleet and was able to provide his sons and grandsons with the means to seek further opportunities in Granville and other parts of France, Spain, Louisiana, Saint Domingue (Haiti) and the Indian Ocean. This paper examines the career of Captain Hugon and the subsequent attempts by his sons and grandsons to make their own fortunes in corsair and other ventures as often ending in failure as in success. The nature and motivations of privateering is explained as well as the fishing enterprises which were the normal source of income for the Hugons and the other inhabitants of Granville.

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- 18th-Century France, Corsairs, Privateers, 18th Century French Louisiana

Pour nos contemporains, l'évocation des pirates et des corsaires se résume aux aventures flamboyantes de marins dans la mer des Caraïbes ou aux attaques de farouches brigands au large de la Somalie. Moins réductrice, la réalité est à la fois multiple, passionnante et souvent plus riche que la fiction. L'Histoire des pirates et des corsaires propose un tableau de ces phénomènes maritimes sur la longue durée jalonné de fi gures emblématiques comme celles de Drake, Surcouf, Duguay-Trouin, Dragut, Barberousse, Koxinga. Elle invite à un voyage dans le temps, des pirates de la Méditerranée antique et des raids maritimes vikings au Moyen Âge à la piraterie pratiquée de nos jours en Asie du Sud-Est. Mais aussi à un voyage dans l'espace, de l'Europe aux Antilles, en passant par la mer de Chine et les rives de l'océan Indien. Un intérêt est également accordé à l'ancrage de la piraterie dans nos mémoires, à l'élaboration de mythes et à leurs prolongements dans les mondes virtuels du cinéma, de la BD et des jeux électroniques. La première histoire exhaustive des pirates et des corsaires à l'échelle mondiale.

- by Roberto Barazzutti and +1
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- Maritime History, Naval Warfare, Naval History, History of Piracy

Guerre au commerce et commerce de guerre 1 par Roberto Barazzutti «Nous sortons d'une guerre qui nous a fait faire plus de progrès dans le commerce que nous n'eussions pu en acquérir nous-mêmes en un siècle entier... Ces prises, venant de toutes les parties du monde, nous ont fait voir avec étonnement la grandeur, l'étendue, la qualité du commerce des Anglais et des Hollandais... Le jugement de ces prises, qu'il a fallu suivre au Conseil, a aussi... prévenu fort favorablement les ministres pour le commerce... Notre supériorité à la mer, au moyen des armements en course, nous mettait en état de soutenir notre navigation ordinaire sans trop d'interruption, parce qu'elle était petite d'elle-même et nos vaisseaux bien armés... Au contraire, nous faisions de grosses prises sur eux, qui causaient un commerce étranger et surabondant dans le Royaume, qui occupait et faisait gagner les peuples et grossissait le revenu des fermes. Les étrangers, privés du secours des marchandises dont ces prises étaient chargées, virent leur commerce diminué à un point qu'ils furent obligés de les faire racheter en France. Cela nous causait un double mouvement très utile... ». Cette citation du mémoire du député du commerce de Nantes, Joachim Descazeau du Hallay le 4 mars 1702, fait l'éloge de la course en ce qu'elle aurait permis d'accroître le commerce et les finances de la France au détriment de celui de ses ennemis 2. Dès l'origine, la guerre de course est liée au commerce et à l'économie. Avec l'apparition des lettres de représailles au XII e siècle 3 ,

- by Roberto Barazzutti
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- Military History, Maritime History, Naval Warfare, Naval History

Abstract of this book in which I participated most of dutch privateer, french privateer in the 17th century

- by Roberto Barazzutti and +6
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- Maritime History, Naval History, History of Piracy, Corsairs
- by Roberto Barazzutti
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- French History, Maritime History, Naval History, Social History
- by Roberto Barazzutti
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- Military History, Maritime History, Naval Warfare, Naval History
- by Roberto Barazzutti
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- French History, Maritime History, Naval History, Social History

Documento piloto sobre John Oxenham.
Autor: Juan G. Castillo F.

- by Roberto Barazzutti
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- French History, Maritime History, Naval History, History of Piracy

The given article contains the analysis of peculiarities of the Anglo-Spanish colonial and maritime Struggle for the West Indies in the Reign of Charles I. The author studies the role of the Providence Company in the colonial expansion of... more

- by Victor Gubarev
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- Maritime History, History of Piracy, Colonial Latin American History, Privateering

This paper is part of a collection of papers on the genealogy of the family of J. Calvitt Clarke, founder of Christian Children's Fund. A merchant seaman and later captain, Richard Hamilton was a privateer during the War of 1812. This paper is based on his letters home from 1811 to 1819 and includes those from England's infamous Dartmoor Prison. Before his captivity at British hands, he had suffered internment by the French at Morlaix. After Napoleon's fall, he endured Spanish confinement in Campeche, Mexico.

El presente trabajo se propone explorar el papel del golfo de México y de sus costas en la lucha independentista, así como su importancia como zona de defensa contrainsurgente. Nos interesa documentar la percepción del mar y sus litorales como zona estratégica tanto para los insurgentes como para los realistas y, en segundo lugar, mostrar las medidas y acciones que ambos campos emprendieron para asegurarse el control sobre la misma.

- by Johanna von Grafenstein
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- Independence, Counterinsurgency, Insurgency, Pirates
- by Basil Gounaris
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- Mediterranean Studies, Ottoman Empire, Modern Greek History, Menorca / Minorca

This article uses a novel data source to test whether British Napoleonic prison hulks were as bad as many claim, and whether they were perceived to be bad by seamen who risked ending up in them. We find that they were not so bad: death rates of imprisoned Danish and Norwegian seamen were low. We test the perceptions of seamen by seeing whether those with the most options in the labour market (tall people) continued to choose to go to sea after war was declared. We find that they do. We therefore conclude that Danish and Norwegian seamen were not scared of the British Navy or British prison hulks, and that they were right not to be scared. We also provide the first modern estimates for the change in heights over time in Denmark and Norway, finding no change in living standards for those born from 1720 to 1800.

- by Jelle van Lottum and +2
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- History, European History, Cultural History, Economic History
- by Roberto Barazzutti
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- Maritime History, Naval History, Corsairs, Dutch History

Fragmento de un documento escrito por el Capitán Diego Ruiz De Campos en 1631. En el no sólo describe la geografía del istmo de Panamá, sino que brinda información sobre caminos, comercio y arquitectura de Panamá la Vieja. Particular interés me causó el detalle sobre Puente de Rey, localizado al norte de la ciudad. Ya que hasta hoy se especulaba sobre su fecha de construcción.

- by Roberto Barazzutti
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- Military History, French History, Maritime History, Naval History
- by Alfredo Koncke
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- Privateers

Four hundred years ago, the Dutch humanist and jurisconsult Hugo Grotius was commissioned by the United Netherlands’ East India Company (VOC) to write a defense of Admiral Jakob van Heemskerk’s seizure of a Portuguese merchant carrack in the Straits of Singapore (February 1603). At the time he was twenty-one years old. What Grotius produced between 1604 and 1606 is a comprehensive political and historical exposé on war. Today, this work is known as De Jure Praedae Commentarius, or “Commentary on Law of Prize and Booty”. Only part of this comprehensive manuscript was published during its author’s lifetime and is known as Mare Liberum or “The Free Sea” (1609).
Mare Liberum is essentially a propagandistic treatise and argues for Holland’s merchants to freely access emporia in Asia by unimpeded navigation across the high seas. The freedom of navigation forms a subset to the overarching arguments on the freedom of access and trade. This particular assessment of Mare Liberum stands in sharp contrast to past interpretations, insofar as these have placed the ‘freedom of the seas’ - and not the broader issues surrounding ‘free trade’ - at the forefront of scholarly attention. From this vantage point, Grotius was surprisingly consistent in his thinking on the broader issues of maritime trade and navigation.
During the first two decades of the seventeenth century, Grotius lent a helping hand in the process of forging political and commercial treaties between the VOC and Asian rulers. Far from championing peace and the freedom of navigation on the high seas for which the Dutch humanist is best remembered in modern times, Grotius should also assume a place among the intellectual fathers of Dutch colonial rule in Asia.""""

- by Peter Borschberg
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- History, Military History, Economic History, Diplomatic History

L'histoire économique et sociale de la guerre de course est un champ d'étude qui est bien connu en France, mais qui reste vierge dans d'autres pays. Ici on propose à partir des travaux d'historiens néerlandais et de sources inédites françaises, d'offrir une première perspective de ce champs sur la course en Zélande, la principale province néerlandaise ayant fortement eu recours à cette activité militaire et commerciale.

- by Roberto Barazzutti
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- Military History, Modern History, Maritime History, Naval History

The seizure of the Sta. Catarina took place off the east coast of Singapore in 1603 and was popularised by the Dutch lawyer and humanist Hugo Grotius. Based on Dutch and Portuguese sources, the article revisits the incident to critique... more

- by Peter Borschberg
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- History, Law, Southeast Asian Studies, International Law

Paper submitted to the Winston Churchill Fellowship in Australia in completing the 2012 Fellowship. Research project entailed archival investigations for historical documents associated with the early colonial history of Australia and... more

- by Chris Maxworthy
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- Latin American Studies, Maritime History, Banking, Pacific History

Piet Hein et la capture de la flotte d'or à Matanzas en 1628

- by Roberto Barazzutti
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- Maritime History, Naval Warfare, Naval History, 17th Century Dutch Republic

A new appraisal about the British and French exploitation of the North-African privateering as a tool for reduce the Spanish, Italian (and later American) quotas of commerce in the Mediterranean. A paper by Nino Teramo for Quaderno Sism... more

- by Virgilio Ilari and +1
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- Military History, Maritime History, Maritime Law, Naval History

Using published and unpublished documents of Dutch, Portuguese and Malay provenance, the present study explores how news of the Twelve Years Truce in December 1609 negatively impacted politics and commerce at the court of the Kingdom of Johor. Since 1603, Johor had emerged as one of the principal allies of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the region of the Singapore and Melaka Straits, and after 1606 it had proven itself as a worthy ally in the company’s war on the Iberian powers across Southeast Asia. It will be argued that confusion resulting from the news of the truce on the ground in Asia exacerbated factionalism at the court. The Johor ruler, Ala’udin Ri’ayat Shah III, and especially his younger sibling Raja Bongsu, were incensed and evidently felt they had been left to carry on the struggle against Portuguese Melaka on their own. Unable to continue the war effort without Dutch funds, subsidies and ammunition, the pro-Portuguese faction at the Johor court brokered a peace with the Estado da Índia in October 1610. This deal led to the fall of Raja Bongsu and his pro-Dutch faction at the court. This essay provides the political and historical backdrop to the writing and revision of the Sejarah Melayu, or Malay Annals, in or around 1612.

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- History, Military History, Diplomatic History, Historical Geography

В статье автор определяет роль, которую сыграли действия английских каперов в Средиземноморье в годы англо-испанской войны 1585-1604 гг. Он показывает низкую эффективность мер, предпринятых английским правительством для регулирования каперского промысла в средиземноморском регионе. Автор отмечает негативное влияние каперских действий на международное положение Англии в годы войны.
In the article author defines the role which have played actions of English privateers in the Mediterranean at the years of the Anglo-Spanish war 1585-1604. He shows low effectiveness of the measures undertaken by the English government to regulate their privateering business in the Mediterranean region. Author notes negative influence of privateering action on international situation of England at the years of the war.

- by Dmitriy Mikheev
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- Military History, History of the Mediterranean, Privateering, Privateers
- by Roberto Barazzutti
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- History of Piracy, Dutch West India Company, Dutch History, Piracy

Presentation at the Historical Archives of the Guayas, Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Rédaction de 7 notices biographiques et une notice portuaire.
(Delorme Villedaulé François Marie ; Duchesne François-Marie & Pintedevin-Dujardin Jacques Pierre ; Dupuy-Fromy Jacques Père et Dupuy-Fromy François Joseph Fils ; Fontan Frères ; Le Même François Thomas ; Saint-Malo sous la Révolution et l’Empire ; Thomas des Essarts Jean Claude Augustin ; Thomazeau Louis Gilles Zacharie).

- by Karine Audran
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- Privateering, Privateers, Merchants, privateers and pirates, Piracy and Privateers

Ces deux villes représentent presque tout le passé colonial, commercial et militaire de la province de Zélande dans les Provinces-unies. Au travers de cette notice, on découvre l'histoire de la guerre de course zélandaise, qui fut la... more

Die Expansion der schwedischen Schifffahrt um 1650 wäre ohne niederländischer Beteiligung undenkbar gewesen. Obwohl die Ausrüstung einer ganzen Flotte misslang, fand dank der Migration von niederländischen Seefahrern ein Transfer von seemännischen Fähigkeiten und Kenntnissen nach Schweden statt. Von 1630 bis 1660 rekrutierte die schwedische Admiralität etwa 200 niederländische Offiziere und Steuerleute. Während der Expansion der schwedischen Schifffahrt navigierten diese Niederländer die Schiffe der Marine und Handelskompanien durch die unbekannten Gewässer außerhalb der Ostsee. Hierbei lernte eine neue Generation von schwedischen Offizieren die Kunst und Fertigkeiten der niederländischen Seeschifffahrt. Leider blieb der Erfolg der niederländischen Hilfsflotte für Schweden während des Torstenssonkriegs (1643−1645) aus. Trotz großer diplomatischer Anstrengungen blieb die Flotte schwach ausgerüstet, die Schiffe waren teuer und ihre Bewaffnung mangelhaft. Um die Flotte finanzieren zu können und die Loyalität der Matrosen zu garantieren, war man gezwungen, sich auf die Kaperei zu konzentrieren. Zudem standen die finanziellen Interessen des Kriegsunternehmers und die staatlichen schwedischen Interessen im Widerspruch zueinander und förderten das Risiko von Meutereien.

- by Hielke van Nieuwenhuize
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- Maritime History, Naval Warfare, Naval History, Early Modern Europe