Episode 54 - The War of the Reunions

The Pirate History Podcast

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🗓️ 25 January 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Christmas, 1683. King Louis XIV invaded The Holy Roman Empire in a bid to claim the western bank of the Rhine. At that exact moment Laurens de Graaf attacked one of the jewels of the Spanish Empire. He was called a pirate despite his Letter of Marque, but if so, his piracy was remarkably unprofitable and played perfectly into Louis' war aims. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an airwave media podcast.
0:05.0	My name is Greg Jackson.
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0:40.0	Kenway, scurvy Pete, Hefei, Zumen, Black Tip, Matthew the Navigator, Bull, Vertagon, Conifallinde,
0:49.8	Romgut, and Bootstraps Bailey. The Hello, welcome to the Pirate History Podcast. My name is Matt. Thank you for listening.
1:27.0	Count Dracula was never a count.
1:33.4	Nor was he Transylvanian.
1:35.2	He was Wollachian.
1:36.5	It was a state just to the east of Transylvania.
1:39.8	He was what the people of Wollakia called of Wavad. We in the West might most accurately
1:46.0	understand this title as a sort of a duke. Wylakia was a sovereign state, but she gave
1:52.2	her allegiance to one of two empires vying for control in the region.
1:57.4	It was either the Kingdom of Hungary or the Ottoman Empire.
2:02.1	Dracula's name was Vlad, and he got their family surname, Draculisti, from his father Vlaadrakool.
2:10.0	It meant Vlad the dragon, and Dracula meant son of the dragon.
2:15.1	He spent many of his early years as a hostage to the Ottoman Sultan to ensure his
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