A pirate walks into a bar with a paper towel tucked partially under his hat. The bartender says to him, "Oi, what's that?" The pirate responds, "Aargggh, I've got a bounty on me head."
Love your in depth pirate tales. I believe if pirates were treated to the same retribution today as they received on that first expedition, the pirate problem would virtually cease to exist.
During the Cold War piracy basically ceased to exist because of the Navy's ships and aircraft. It came back after the fall of the USSR where the United States decided to relax its presence.
Even in the 1980's, when my destroyer would traverse the Malaccan Straits, we would have armed crewman on the decks watching for pirates. Most of the pirates at that time used military coastal boats that were stolen from Malaysia or the Sumatra government. The commercial ships would crowd around us for protection, which would give the Officer on the bridge ulcers!
"If the American government does not notice the outrage at Kuala Batu, every American vessel that visits the coast on the following season will suffer the fate of the _Friendship."_ - Raja of Kuala Batu "Thanks for the advice." - John McClane
@redwater4778 yeah... thay didn't work out so well for them either. Also, much easier to travel by boat than cross the frontier, and easier to find your enemy on a small island than the vast expanses of the north American continent.
@@sinisterthoughts2896 It came down to money. The US military was protecting a business interest. Why protect the settles when all they had was some farmland?
@@sinisterthoughts2896 They didn't try much. It was always militias that fought the natives. They only send real armies after the civil war and then they used confederate POWs to fight them.
Great and informative video. I never knew anything of this particular incident. I live close to Singapore and after watching this, I like to go visit that island in the future …
A pirate walks into a bar with a car's steering wheel poking out of the zipper on his pants. The bartender asks, "Oi, mate, what's with the steering wheel? That looks uncomfortable." The pirate replies, "Arrrgh, yeah, it's drivin' me nuts." (I'll see myself out 😂)
@@edhutton1293And being equipped with 50 cannons, 25 on each side and possibly being steam powered with paddle wheels makes that ship and possibly others the most modern warships in the world. The U.S. Navy was the most modern navy in the world until 1862 when the Monitor and the Merrimac were built during the Civil War.
@@cynicallydepressed1 No it wasn't. But during wartime advances in science and industry speeds development. Look at World War 1 and World War 2. In the latter Germany had the first jet fighters and jet bombers. Only 4 jet bombers were built near the end of the war.
Hi, Guy. It's good to see you again. I've always enjoyed your accounts and all the depictions you include. Thanks bunches for all your research. God bless you.
A remarkable feat and projection of power to such a remote part. of the world for that time . I was aware of the US marine corps and their actions in ending the Barbary terror , but had newer heard of these Malay pirates . Love the language and grammar of the times ! Great history lesson .
I actually knew about this from a tv show I watched as a young child. On ' Gomer Pyle, USMC' , In one episode Gunnery Sergeant Carter talks about this then uses Kaatu Baatu as the password for the sentry's post.
From the far off snowy winterland Or in sunny tropical sceans You will always find us on the Job The United States Marines Outstanding !. The World's Finest US Marines. Semper Fi
The port name would be Kuala Batu, which is Malay for Rocky Estuary. Piracy is still around in the archipelago but no where as prevalent or as high profile as before. Great story though!
It's surprising that as much as you like pirate stories you haven't made a video on the pirates of cave in rock. A little known story outside the local area along the lower Ohio river
@@pithicus52 there sure was. My father was just a kid when they shot the scene at the cave. His father took him to watch and sat on the Kentucky side. I've heard that story a hundred times 😂. We are from Crittenden county Kentucky
@@scotwilliams21 Thinking about it a little more, I remember in the late 1950s, early 1960s a bit of a craze for the period in American history around the revolution. Daniel Boone, The Sons of Liberty, The Swamp Fox. I think many of these shows were Disney productions. Songs on the radio included Johnny Horton singing The Battle of New Orleans. "In eighteen fourteen we took a little trip, along with colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip"
@@pithicus52lts was also in the epic How The West Was Won. Starring James Stewart , Walter Brennan in the bamboozle on the Ohio River. Henry Fonda, Goerge Peppard and many others. Spans quite a few years from beginning to end.
Arrrrgh! I hit my finger with a hammer! I had physically just walked out of the doctor's office when I saw and read the pirate joke about the bounty on his head. 😅😅😅😅
"...to the shores of Tripoli." It is no surprise that the young United States would want to project power around the world at this time. The US Navy and Marines first success globally was in the First Barbary War in 1805. Britian's global dominance was challenged between 1812 and 1815. The US significantly contributed to the reduction of Mediterranean piracy after the Second Barbary War. Heading west from America makes perfect sense in 1832 given prior successes.
"- were deliberately built to carry more cannons than their European counterparts" *eagle screech* *incredibly bass boosted and reverbed star spangled banner plays*🦅🦅🦅🇺🇲🇺🇲💪💪🦅🦅RAAAAAH
A seaman meets a pirate in a port, and talk turns to their adventures on the sea. The seaman notes that the pirate has a peg leg, a hook, and an eye patch. The seaman asks, "So, how did you end up with the peg leg?" The pirate replies, "Aye, matey, we was in a storm at sea, and I was swept overboard into a school of sharks. Just as me men were pulling me out, a shark bit me leg off." "Wow!" said the seaman. "What about your hook?" "Well," replied the pirate, "We were boarding an enemy ship and were battling the other sailors with swords. One of the enemy cut my hand off." "Incredible!" remarked the seaman. "How did you get the eye patch?" "A sea-gull dropping fell into me eye," replied the pirate. "You lost your eye to a sea-gull dropping?" the sailor asked incredulously. "Not exactly," said the pirate. "It was me first day with the hook."
I am gratified to learn of a naval action I never heard of at a location I was unaware of. Excellent content as always…with pirates as well. Bravo, Mahalo and Aloha!
Was waiting to hear "the rest of the story". Something to the effect of..several sailors and Marines went missing on shore but were later found drunk in the gutter outside a house of ill repute.
Depends on the country you are in but a Google search turned up the following from the lexicon on the wein plus website: "In the Anglo-American world, pipe is a hollow measure or also a type of barrel with a volume of 477.339 litres in England and 476.962 litres in the USA.) 477.339 litres = ~105 UK gallons and 476.962 litres = 126 US liquid gallons.
@TheHistoryGuyChannel OK! I just couldn't figure it. Thanks. BTW many nations sent naval squadrons to contend with pirates along coastal China and SE Asia area in the 1830s and 40s. Worth a followup video.
Hold on, at 7 min "they take possession of their boat". Didn't he describe it had been stripped of sails, instruments, and "everything movable" ? I would assume the pirates even took the rope, as it has value. How do you sail away from that raid?
It's been a while, good Sir, since I've reached out to THANK YOU for the EXCEPTIONAL GOOD that you do for America and America's families. I Pray that your good wife and family are well in these trying times Our nations true and honourable past is worthy and critical to be shared with our offspring, so that they have a purposeful AND healthy sense direction. More so, it gives them continuity of action and a foundation of propriety.
A pirate walks into a bar with a paper towel tucked partially under his hat. The bartender says to him, "Oi, what's that?" The pirate responds, "Aargggh, I've got a bounty on me head."
That's terrible 🤭
Good morning to you too dad 😏
I shouldn’t have laughed at this as hard as I did 😂
Badda boom boom boom
Now that’s funny I don’t care who you are 😂😂😂
Being a history buff I knew about the Barbary pirates but not the Sumatran pirates. Thanx good video.
Asian coasts been active and have a long history of piracy. From as long as there was the silk road, there was the “silk road of the sea”
Whoops! Kuala batu was in aceh. Aceh was conquered by dutch in 1899
Love your in depth pirate tales. I believe if pirates were treated to the same retribution today as they received on that first expedition, the pirate problem would virtually cease to exist.
During the Cold War piracy basically ceased to exist because of the Navy's ships and aircraft. It came back after the fall of the USSR where the United States decided to relax its presence.
Ha ha. Absolute malarkey
@@NS-hs6lt
Ye needs to walk the plank with that name matey!☠️
It goes with out saying that this story deserves to be remembered!
Even in the 1980's, when my destroyer would traverse the Malaccan Straits, we would have armed crewman on the decks watching for pirates. Most of the pirates at that time used military coastal boats that were stolen from Malaysia or the Sumatra government. The commercial ships would crowd around us for protection, which would give the Officer on the bridge ulcers!
Lubber- What's that parrot doing on your shoulder?
Pirate- Nothing I hope.
Good one.
"It was a respectable trade, then, and monarchs were partners in it. In my time I have had desires to be a pirate myself."
- Mark Twain
"If the American government does not notice the outrage at Kuala Batu, every American vessel that visits the coast on the following season will suffer the fate of the _Friendship."_ - Raja of Kuala Batu
"Thanks for the advice." - John McClane
Kuala Haktoo 😳
@@tech6263wrong......kuala batu
Don't. Touch. The. Boats.
Meanwhile back on the American frontier savages were massacring the settlers daily.
@redwater4778 yeah... thay didn't work out so well for them either. Also, much easier to travel by boat than cross the frontier, and easier to find your enemy on a small island than the vast expanses of the north American continent.
@@sinisterthoughts2896 It came down to money. The US military was protecting a business interest.
Why protect the settles when all they had was some farmland?
@@sinisterthoughts2896 They didn't try much. It was always militias that fought the natives. They only send real armies after the civil war and then they used confederate POWs to fight them.
He listens to FE, proving himself a person of good taste and higher education.
Lesson 1: You don't negotiate with pirates.
You can, just make sure you got a bigger gun in your hand...and you're actually willing to use it...
Or use the negotiation to set them up. If you're not cheating, you're not trying.
Men?! No no no no .. pirates. Eh?
Nowadays replace pirate with terrorists 😂
Great and informative video. I never knew anything of this particular incident. I live close to Singapore and after watching this, I like to go visit that island in the future …
Thank you, THG for a great forgotten tale of early America's overseas adventures.
*OOH RAH! BRAVO ZULU!
From a grateful sailor Corpsman*
Crazy Corpseman. Into the fight...with no gun 💪
Semper Fi Doc.
May God Bless all our beloved US Navy Corpsmen. ⚓
God bless, Doc.
It's sad that a lot of people will never know just how delicious black pepper actually is because they use mixed pepper which has almost no flavor.
A pirate walks into a bar with a car's steering wheel poking out of the zipper on his pants. The bartender asks, "Oi, mate, what's with the steering wheel? That looks uncomfortable." The pirate replies, "Arrrgh, yeah, it's drivin' me nuts."
(I'll see myself out 😂)
😅
😖
Ahh, a classic, told regularly to this day in my family.
I heard it with a squirrel in his pants.
Ships rudder wheel makes way more sense.
Great obscure war story from history! I enjoyed it! Sounds like the US Navy ship "peppered" the pirate village with cannonballs! 🤣
Ha ha ha That's a great Dad joke!
@@edhutton1293And being equipped with 50 cannons, 25 on each side and possibly being steam powered with paddle wheels makes that ship and possibly others the most modern warships in the world. The U.S. Navy was the most modern navy in the world until 1862 when the Monitor and the Merrimac were built during the Civil War.
@@luislaplume8261, was it then LESS 'modern' after the first ironclads were built and fought?
Interesting...
@@cynicallydepressed1 No it wasn't. But during wartime advances in science and industry speeds development. Look at World War 1 and World War 2. In the latter Germany had the first jet fighters and jet bombers. Only 4 jet bombers were built near the end of the war.
Hi, Guy. It's good to see you again. I've always enjoyed your accounts and all the depictions you include. Thanks bunches for all your research. God bless you.
A remarkable feat and projection of power to such a remote part. of the world for that time . I was aware of the US marine corps and their actions in ending the Barbary terror , but had newer heard of these Malay pirates . Love the language and grammar of the times ! Great history lesson .
I actually knew about this from a tv show I watched as a young child. On ' Gomer Pyle, USMC' , In one episode Gunnery Sergeant Carter talks about this then uses Kaatu Baatu as the password for the sentry's post.
I don't know if there is a more evocative and exotic place name, for me, than the Malabar Coast.
Enjoy your channel. History is awesome.
A hogshead is 63 gallons to save the reader a google
And a "Pipe" is 172 US gallons... She carried two "pipes of brandy"....
Force only responds to force.
From the far off snowy winterland
Or in sunny tropical sceans
You will always find us on the Job
The United States Marines
Outstanding !. The World's Finest US Marines.
Semper Fi
Semper Fidelis, devil 🇺🇲
Love your videos
My girlfriend and I love waking up together and finding you've uploaded a new video, keep up the great work!
I appreciate you and thank you for making content.
The port name would be Kuala Batu, which is Malay for Rocky Estuary. Piracy is still around in the archipelago but no where as prevalent or as high profile as before. Great story though!
Kuala batu.......british way of pronunciation.....
Hahahahahaha
The dads woke up for this one😂
Living in Salem we get numb to the history all around us. Thank you, for reminding me how cool it is
Always an Outstanding video and presentation.
Ah, yes.A tale of Sumatran pirates told by a master of story telling. Pretty sweet.
Happy Early Birthday Devil Dogs!
I caught this THG episode 6pm November 10. Happy B'day Marines!
30 to 1 kill ratio. That's what the Fat Electrician would call "proportional".
Sorry, I have a mental image of Gomer Pyle, crying out "Quallah Battoo! Quallah Battoo!" It was a really funny episode.
Salem must be a great country. That tickled me
Apparently once you burn the witches, your stature goes way up.
Great episode!
I would happily watch a video on the history of black pepper. Juat sayin.
I always enjoy the history you bring us. Thank you.
They’re lucky Old Hickory didn’t show up himself. Sumatra would be speaking English.
Did the medicine chest contain a... Doctor Pepper ??
*Back when it was still the original recipe and made with actual prunes*
YEAHHHH! 😎
We won't get fooled again
Nice one.
Thanks for another clear video 👍👍👍
Didn't know this, thanks THG😊
Thank you History Guy
As always, thank you!
Good video.
I remember the word Quallah Batoo being used as a sentry password.
US Marines - and sailors - taking names and kicking a$$ even back in the day. #Hoorah
Marines specialize in taking names and kicking a$$.
Marines say OO-RAH! Hoorah is army, I believe.
Semper Fidelis good Sir!!!!!!!
Seven hundred percent profit on his trading - this sort of return must be the origin of the phrase, "when my ship comes in . . . "
Good show and information
It's surprising that as much as you like pirate stories you haven't made a video on the pirates of cave in rock. A little known story outside the local area along the lower Ohio river
Wasn't Davy Crockett involved in that? I vaguely recall a movie (made for TV?) about Davy fighting Ohio River pirates.
@@pithicus52 there sure was. My father was just a kid when they shot the scene at the cave. His father took him to watch and sat on the Kentucky side. I've heard that story a hundred times 😂. We are from Crittenden county Kentucky
@@scotwilliams21 Thinking about it a little more, I remember in the late 1950s, early 1960s a bit of a craze for the period in American history around the revolution. Daniel Boone, The Sons of Liberty, The Swamp Fox. I think many of these shows were Disney productions. Songs on the radio included Johnny Horton singing The Battle of New Orleans. "In eighteen fourteen we took a little trip, along with colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip"
@@pithicus52lts was also in the epic How The West Was Won. Starring James Stewart , Walter Brennan in the bamboozle on the Ohio River.
Henry Fonda, Goerge Peppard and many others. Spans quite a few years from beginning to end.
Ohio River piracy was a serious thing, far bloodier than anyone might think. Was s main road of settlement and with it the loot...
That sounds like something “Old Hickory” would do.
Arrrrgh! I hit my finger with a hammer!
I had physically just walked out of the doctor's office when I saw and read the pirate joke about the bounty on his head. 😅😅😅😅
Pepper is awesome lol
I couldn’t live without my black pepper, blackened everything. Yum
"...to the shores of Tripoli."
It is no surprise that the young United States would want to project power around the world at this time. The US Navy and Marines first success globally was in the First Barbary War in 1805.
Britian's global dominance was challenged between 1812 and 1815. The US significantly contributed to the reduction of Mediterranean piracy after the Second Barbary War. Heading west from America makes perfect sense in 1832 given prior successes.
*1805
@@lizj5740 Corrected. Thank you!
@@justme_gb You're welcome. I couldn't compute 1905 with 1812 etc. in the next para, so I checked.
YES!
All good stories evolve pirates.
"- were deliberately built to carry more cannons than their European counterparts" *eagle screech* *incredibly bass boosted and reverbed star spangled banner plays*🦅🦅🦅🇺🇲🇺🇲💪💪🦅🦅RAAAAAH
Like USS Constitution, they were called "super frigates."
@TheHistoryGuyChannel i just don't know if SUPER FRIGATE is superlative enough for a ship like the Constitution...
To be fair, though, plunder is a really fun word to say.
Don't all good stories involve pirates ?
YES
😂😂
Conclusion statement (in particular)
👏👏👏👏👏🤘🤘🤘👍☝✊🤛👏👏👏🙏 ....and all that jazz.
A seaman meets a pirate in a port, and talk turns to their adventures on the sea. The seaman notes that the pirate has a peg leg, a hook, and an eye patch. The seaman asks, "So, how did you end up with the peg leg?"
The pirate replies, "Aye, matey, we was in a storm at sea, and I was swept overboard into a school of sharks. Just as me men were pulling me out, a shark bit me leg off."
"Wow!" said the seaman. "What about your hook?"
"Well," replied the pirate, "We were boarding an enemy ship and were battling the other sailors with swords. One of the enemy cut my hand off."
"Incredible!" remarked the seaman. "How did you get the eye patch?"
"A sea-gull dropping fell into me eye," replied the pirate.
"You lost your eye to a sea-gull dropping?" the sailor asked incredulously.
"Not exactly," said the pirate. "It was me first day with the hook."
What do you mean, 'little known'?
They never stop singing about it.
God, I love your work!
Don't touch our boats! Any of them or their crews.
Merica!
dumbass
Pirates AND it's just fun to say "Quallah Battoo".
Back in the Saddle Again Naturally
All great stories involve The U.S. Marines.
its called Kuala Batu in Malay..
which means estuary of rocks..
btw I am malay hahahaha
Tapi kalau orang jawa lain katanya. Kuala batu terletak dalai naungan aceh. Meerkat tak menganggap dirinya melayu
I am gratified to learn of a naval action I never heard of at a location I was unaware of. Excellent content as always…with pirates as well. Bravo, Mahalo and Aloha!
This makes me appreciate when I shake pepper on my food!
Good evening
1:22 When was 84-10??
Sequel with the followup revisit?
What happened to cause the audible hum in the last segment?
"Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute!"
If people had known how easy it is to grow pepper, they would never have placed so much value in it.
A shame that our current leaders don't understand the importance of backing up words with action.
Was waiting to hear
"the rest of the story". Something to the effect of..several sailors and Marines went missing on shore but were later found drunk in the gutter outside a house of ill repute.
**a wise man once said*The saddest part about winning war is seeing your enemies slowly get younger*
What is a pipe of brandy?
Depends on the country you are in but a Google search turned up the following from the lexicon on the wein plus website: "In the Anglo-American world, pipe is a hollow measure or also a type of barrel with a volume of 477.339 litres in England and 476.962 litres in the USA.) 477.339 litres = ~105 UK gallons and 476.962 litres = 126 US liquid gallons.
8410...?
AD 410
@TheHistoryGuyChannel OK! I just couldn't figure it. Thanks. BTW many nations sent naval squadrons to contend with pirates along coastal China and SE Asia area in the 1830s and 40s. Worth a followup video.
0:43 Piper what?😂😂😂
You've never played Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. Piper Nigrum
Wasn't one of the first Engagement of the US marines to take on pirates on the Barbary coast? I guess Quallah Battoo didn't get the memo! 🤷🏼♀️😉
“Oh no. They have captured our captain on shore.”
“What a shame, but we don’t negotiate with pirates. Toodaloo!”
OH Boy! Pirates!!!!!
Justice on the main seems to be in body counts. A sad compendium of raider human tendencies usu. going both ways. thanks, sir
Rum is the reason pirates never ruled the world...
Hold on, at 7 min "they take possession of their boat". Didn't he describe it had been stripped of sails, instruments, and "everything movable" ? I would assume the pirates even took the rope, as it has value. How do you sail away from that raid?
Good point
@@rimrunz1795 First-hand/observer accounts were just as unreliable as they are today.
Somethings have not changed in this part of the world to this day.
Don't. Touch. Our. Boats. - The Fat Electrician
from the halls of montezuma to the shores of kuala batu...does not sound smooth
In Every Climb And Place.
*Clime
@@lizj5740 Thank you. Mind went right to climb due to the similar sounding.
@@cliff8669 I just wanted to say that you are showing others how to be civilized. Thank you for being you.
@@cliff8669 You're welcome! And I understand the mind slip, for sure.
@@chrissherer2047 Welcome. Cheers
It's been a while, good Sir, since I've reached out to THANK YOU for the EXCEPTIONAL GOOD that you do for America and America's families. I Pray that your good wife and family are well in these trying times
Our nations true and honourable past is worthy and critical to be shared with our offspring, so that they have a purposeful AND healthy sense direction. More so, it gives them continuity of action and a foundation of propriety.
It should be written as kuala batu
Because don’t all good stories involve pirates?
Can i donate a mic