The Age of Pirates | Captain Kid's Adventure | 2
American History Tellers
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4.6 • 19K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
As England waged war against France in 1689, Scottish sailor William Kidd led a deadly mutiny aboard a French privateer in the Caribbean. It was his first act in becoming one of the most feared sea captains of his generation. After Kidd retired from piracy and settled down in New York, the English Crown hired him to hunt down other pirates and secure its lucrative trade routes. But Kidd would soon betray his contract with the Crown, and become the most wanted outlaw on the North American coast.
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| 0:09.4 | Imagine it's July 1689. |
| 0:20.9 | You're a sailor working in the warm waters of the Caribbean aboard a French privateer |
| 0:25.1 | ship. |
| 0:26.1 | Like all French privateers, you hunt the vessels of France's animations for bounty. |
| 0:31.5 | But you are not French, you're Scottish. |
| 0:34.5 | Until a few days ago that didn't matter. |
| 0:36.8 | You're all here for the money and that binds you together no matter where you're from. |
| 0:40.8 | But news has come that war has broken out between France and England. |
| 0:45.0 | And now you can feel the mood growing more tense each day between the ship's handful |
| 0:49.0 | of English sailors and the mostly French crew. |
| 0:52.8 | Your ship, the Salf Rose, is on route to St. Christopher's Island, which is split between |
| 0:57.7 | the French and the English. |
| 0:59.4 | Your French captain hasn't yet told the crew what you'll be doing there, but you fear |
| 1:03.5 | it might have something to do with the war. |
| 1:05.8 | Now you're headed below deck to meet with a quartermaster. |
| 1:08.3 | He's called you to his private room for reasons unknown. |
| 1:11.6 | Ah, you're here. |
| 1:12.6 | Come in. |
| 1:13.6 | Close the door. |
| 1:15.2 | The quartermaster and the second in command is an Englishman. |
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