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The news that the captured Venetian ship

Reneera and Sodorina had been lost at sea, along with her captain,

sent Europe into a frenzy. John Ward was Europe's most wanted. He was a menace, a pirate, he was the

pirate in the Mediterranean. Countless lives had been lost due to slavery or death on his

orders. Mountains of treasure had been lost as well, not to mention the ships.

If he were dead, that should be the best news anyone with an interest in Mediterranean trade had heard in some time.

And yeah, for most of them, it was great news.

The merchants and sailors that carried out trading voyages, for example,

not to mention the investors that financed them.

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