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Today's show is brought to you by our Patreon supporters, including our Commodore class.

That's Commodore's Matthew, Hefei, Zumen, Black Tip, Long John Sterling, Bull, Vertagon,

Contifalinde, Rumgut, and Bootstrap's Bailey. The Oh, Hello, welcome to the Pirate History Podcast. My name is Matt. Thank you for listening. At the dawn of the 20th century the world was in the

grip of a pirate frenzy. Now this wasn't real world pirates. The only real pirates

of any note were German

submarines and that was a different problem on its own.

No, it was the mythology of pirates, the romance and the legend of pirates

that held the world in thrall. Now this all began back in

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