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Pirate historian and author. Historical facts and fictions.
Website: https://waynesavage.com/
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A breakthrough in navigation, the sextant was used for measuring the angle between a celestial object and the horizon to determine latitude and longitude. It first appeared in the mid 18th century, so wouldn't have been available to pirates of the Golden Age.
#maritimehistory #c18th #history
Sextant
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Why did convoys work?

With apologies for the Buzzfeed-style subtitle...

#navalhistory

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Why did convoys work?
The answer might surprise you (sorry)
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November 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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"How Henry VIII’s Lost Ship Was Recovered—Still Packed With Thousands of Tudor Treasures: The Mary Rose holds a Guinness World Record for the most medieval weaponry recovered from a single shipwreck."

#history #UK
How Henry VIII’s Prized Ship Reemerged With a Trove of Tudor Treasures
The Mary Rose holds a Guiness World Record for the most medieval weaponry recovered from a single shipwreck.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Ancient pirates? In this amazing article, Jess Nadeau explores the history of ancient piracy in the Mediterranean.

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#ancient #history #pirates #piracy #archaeology #egypt #egyptian #greece #seapeoples #bronzeage
Warriors of the Sea: Tracing the Origins of Pirate Culture
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November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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On this day in 1644, the English poet John Milton published his pamphlet "Areopagitica." It was a denunciation of censorship, now seen as the cornerstone of freedom of the press.
#WriterSky #BookSky #History #OTD #Censorship
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Milton was responding to an English law – passed the previous year – that required authors to have a license, approved by the government, before their work could be published. The former Cornell philosophy professor George Sabine described Areopagitica as an urgent appeal to the public. Sabine wrote, “Its basic principle was the right and also the duty of every intelligent man as a rational being, to know the grounds and take responsibility for his beliefs and actions. Its corollary was a society and a state in which decisions are reached by open discussion, in which the sources of information are not contaminated by authority in the interest of party, and in which political unity is secured not by force but by a consensus that respects variety of opinion.” Photo of the title page of John Milton's "Areopagitica." Source: Southern Methodist University, Texas | Bridwell Library
November 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Piracy Continues, But It's Not Blackbeard!
November 22, 1719: Lt. Robert Maynard of the HMS Pearl complains to the Lords of the Admiralty that the bounty due to him for killing and capturing Blackbeard and his crew has not been paid.

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Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge
Queen Anne's Revenge, stock footage, video production, shipwreck, piracy, IP, QAR, Lawsuit, NCDNCR, copyright, Supreme Court
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November 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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While Henry Morgan was pillaging in the Caribbean, disaster struck at home - The Great Fire of London.
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#history #17thc
This painting shows the great fire of London as seen from a boat in vicinity of Tower Wharf, unknown artist, 1675.
November 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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22 November 1718: The pirate Edward Teach ("Blackbeard") was killed by a Royal Navy boarding party led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard off the coast of N Carolina. #History #Piracy
Contemporary illustration depicting Blackbeard.
November 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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I guess Monsieur Dulaien couldn't decided on the best symbol for his flag, so he took them all.
#piratehistory #pirates #history
Jean Dulaien was a French privateer turned pirate active in the Caribbean from 1727 to 1728. He was pardoned, but later imprisoned. His final fate is unknown. This flag was attributed to him in a letter written by the Mayor of Nantes, Monsieur Mellier: “… est faite d'étoffe noire sur laquelle se détachaient des marques blanches comme figures de testes coupées au coutelas, restes d'ossments et sabliers.” “… is made of black cloth, on which there are white marks, such as figures of heads cut of with a cutlass, piles of bones and hourglasses.” Maurice Besson, Les Frères de la Coste (1928), p. 231.
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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21 Nov 1759 // 74-gun 3rd-rate HMS Resolution, which had suffered heavy damage during the Battle of Quiberon Bay, ran aground on sandbanks when attempting to leave the bay. She refloated at high water on the morning of 21 November but grounded again when the tide ebbed. [1/4]
Richard Wright, 'The Battle of Quiberon Bay, 21 November 1759: the Day After' (1760). The grounded ship in the right foreground is HMS Resolution, beyond her is HMS Essex, also aground, being burnt to prevent capture. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
November 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Blackbeard's Shipwreck Found!
November 21, 1996: Intersal Inc., a private research firm working under permit from the state of North Carolina, discovers the wreck believed to be the Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR).

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Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge
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November 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Moll Cutpurse was a child pickpocket. Branded for thieving, she became a London celebrity and appeared on stage in The Roaring Girl – a tale of cross-dressing and scandalous behaviour. Hear her story in our Women and Crime Podcast: tinyurl.com/bde5bt3f #history #Tudors #theatre
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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The sand glass, also known as an hourglass or sand clock, has been used since antiquity to keep track of time. It was essential for determining both speed and distance travelled at sea.
#maritimehistory #AgeOfSail #history
Sand glass
November 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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205 years ago, on the 20th of November 1820, American wailing ship 'Essex' was rammed and sank by a sperm whale, inspiring Herman Melville's 1851 novel 'Moby Dick'. #otd #history 🗃️
A whale striking Essex on November 20, 1820, depicted in a sketch by Thomas Nickerson
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Succotash. Tamales. Cornbread.

Foods we call “American” often have Indigenous roots.

In Ep. 426, Michael Wise helps us see Native cuisine—hidden in plain sight.

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Episode 426: Michael Wise, Beyond the First Thanksgiving: Indigenous Agriculture and the Hidden Science of Native Foodways
Discover how Wampanoag and Cherokee farmers shaped early America through Indigenous agriculture, Native foodways, and hidden science.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Interesting video focusing more on buccaneers attacking the Spanish colonies rather than 'enemies of all nations' type pirates.
Pirate Land Warfare: Preparation, Equipment, Tactics and Aftermath
YouTube video by Gold and Gunpowder
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November 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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An interesting account of the fight against piracy from the 16th century to the hanging of the last pirate captain in Boston in 1835.
#piratehistory #maritimehistory #historybookchat #history
Cover pf the Pirate Wars by Peter Earle
November 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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A reflecting circle, also known as a circle sextant, Borda circle, reflecting circle, or circumferator, was a circular instrument which used mirrors to measure the angular distance between two diverging objects at once.
#maritimehistory #AgeOfSail #history #c18th
Reflecting circle
November 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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📣 New blog post

The resurrection of a fake letter in the mid-18th century stoked international geopolitical tensions at a time when the individual reward for discovering the Northwest Passage was worth over £2 million.
The 18th-century English fake news that helped spawn an American sea
This is a story of how one piece of flawed journalism published in London snowballed a myth that defined the geography of northwest America on over 200 historic
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November 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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➡️ Read more about Elizabeth I of England here:
Elizabeth I of England
Elizabeth I reigned as queen of England from 1558 to 1603. Her 44-year reign was so long and packed with momentous events that the second half of the 16th century is now known as the Elizabethan era...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Choose your weapon.
How Pirates Settled their Issues... By the Sword
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November 15, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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15 November 1577: Francis #Drake set out from #Plymouth on his voyage to sail around the world.

Bad weather would force Drake to return to port for repair. He would set out a second time on 13 December 1577. #History
Portrait of Francis Drake, stood with a globe of the Earth on a table beside him.
November 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Pirate ships ran on strict roles and shared power — way more democracy than the empires hunting them. ⚓️🏴‍☠️

#PirateHistory #MaritimeHistory #Brewminate
Who Was Who in a Pirate Crew?
Explore the ranks and roles that shaped life aboard a pirate ship and defined every raid, decision, and mutiny at sea.
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November 15, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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The Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt
An oil painting of portraying the biblical miracle in which Jesus calmed the storm on the Sea of Galilee
November 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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The Piracy Act 1670 was enacted during the reign of Charles II and its full name was 'An Act to prevent the delivery up of Merchants Shipps, and for the Increase of good and serviceable Shipping'.
#maritimehistory #AgeOfSail #piratehistory #history
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM