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My name is Greg Jackson.

I'm a PhD holding historian, a professor and the creator of history that doesn't suck.

A podcast that makes legit seriously researched

American history come to life through entertaining stories. Join me for a

chronological telling of the United States story. From the revolution to

fractious civil war, tenacious inventors, brave reformers, and more.

With more than 100 episodes, you can already binge a listen to your way from 1776 to the early 20th century.

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including our Commodore class.

That's Commodore's Kane, Kenway,

Scurvy Pete, Hefei, Zumen, Black Tip, Matthew the Navigator,

Bull, Vertagon, Conifalende, rum gut, and bootstrap spaly. The Hello, welcome to the Pirate History Podcast. My name is Matt. Thank you for listening. After the failed attempt to raid Guayakil in November 1684, our small fleet of English pirates retreated to

Ila de Plata, Drake Sile, off the coast of Peru. The three assembled crews

under captains Edward Davis, Charles Swan, and Peter Harris, all sat down to discuss what their next move might be.

They had men, and all of them were armed with muskets, but they didn't have enough men to take on any large cities.

They had ships, but only the bachelor's delight of Captain Davis could properly be called a warship carrying 36 guns.

Swans vessel, Signet, carried only 14, and Harris sailed a bark with only four swivel guns.

The rest of their fleet was comprised of two fat-bottomed merchant ships carrying supplies

and maybe ten canoes. That's not a lot of firepower.

It was here on Drake's Isle that William Dampir made his case for occupying the fort at

Santa Maria and using their recently captured slaves to extract the gold in the mines there.

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