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I told you last time we were going to talk about the events in New England in 1688.

Bachelor's Delight and King Williams wore the New England privateers cooking up new plots.

But as I parsed through that story, I realized it makes much more sense to wait.

That story is important, but before we get there, we need to turn our eyes to the south,

to events taking place in and around Tortuga and Petiguav and Sandming in general that involve the last great generation of French

and Dutch buccaneers.

Now I'm going to be asking a lot of you today.

There are a number of stories we've talked about in the past

that are all coming together right here. I'm going to be referencing all of them, which makes today

both a terrible place to pick up the show but also an excellent place because all of those

threads are going to begin to coalesce today.

I want to pick up today again at the tail end of the Second Pacific Adventure, this time though with the French fleet that was led originally by Francois-Groinay.

By the 1st of January, 16th, originally by the French Frenchois-Groinet.

By the 1st of January, 1688, Groinet was dead, and his fleet had been split into two factions.

The French marched under Mathurin de Moray. The English at that point were under George

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