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🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 184 minutes
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0:00.0 | So he's trying to get a final score of treasure. |
0:01.8 | It can't do it. |
0:02.8 | Raids off Charleston. |
0:03.8 | He's working his way up the coast. |
0:05.1 | So what does he do? |
0:05.8 | He strategically ditches most of his crew. |
0:08.2 | He takes his flagship, a giant frigate-sized vessel, and intentionally runs it to ground, |
0:13.1 | abandons all the crew many he doesn't trust, keeps, jumps into a smaller vessel and keeps |
0:17.7 | only his trusted allies, the majority of whom, by the way, are of African descent |
0:22.4 | and goes up. And where does he go? He goes to North Carolina, to like the cheapest, lamest colony |
0:29.8 | out there, a place that has almost no people that's just been ravaged in a conflict with the |
0:34.9 | indigenous people, a place that the Virginians look down on as a place |
0:38.1 | where near-do-wells and people of no consequence live, where there's not even really a |
0:43.7 | capital. The government just moves around from village to village. But best thing they have for a |
0:48.5 | capital is a little town called Bath. His crew almost doubles the population of Bath and they |
0:53.3 | show up and come ashore. |
0:54.6 | And they're all armed and in all the rest. So, so he's going out down Pamblico Sound and goes and |
1:01.3 | attacks some French ships in the open ocean and brings them back to one of the barrier islands |
1:05.5 | at the mouth of the Sound, Okra Coke Island and is dismantling the vessels. He's raiding other |
1:09.7 | vessels and all the treasure and |
1:11.2 | proceeds is ending up in the collector of customs for North Carolina's barn under a pile of hay. |
1:16.7 | What he doesn't count on is the ruthlessness of the governor of Virginia. He's going to have none of it. |
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