Tortuga: The Cradle of Piracy | Pirate Nests
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
- Tortuga, maties! First settled by hunters and adventurers, this rocky spit of land eventually developed into a nest of French filibusters, until it finally developed into a buccaneer haven that kickstarted the Golden Age of Sea Roving. This was the Kingdom of Jean le Vasseur, an engineer who built himself a fort on the tallest mountain, cut all ties with France, and craved golden tributes from the buccaneers that named his town their home. In this video we will explore the history, geography, economics and social structure of this mythical location in pirate lore.
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Sources:
The Buccaneers of America - Exquemelin
The Buccaneer's Realm - Benerson Little
Two Voyages to Campechy - William Dampier
www.piratesinfo.com/cpi_Pirati...
Quest for Blackbeard - Baylus Brooks
0:00 1492
1:05 The French Arrive
4:03 Brethren of the Coast
7:14 Fall of Tortuga
9:32 Geography and Economy
12:01 Social Structure
13:57 Outro
#pirates #tortuga #history
I live in the Dominican Republic, the Spanish speaking side of La Hispaniola. And my guy, you have no idea how little about piracy is taught in history class.
I have been in 2 different schools and 2 different universities, and the Tortuga Isle is basically even ignored, even if it was a Pirate's safe heaven,literally next door to such important colony
Tortuga has a mystical feel in pirate lore. I'm always amazed at how many pirate festivals or events use Tortuga in their names! I have sailed around Cuba and visited Dominican Republic and Grand Turk. I was never close enough to sight Tortuga on the horizon. I enjoyed your telling of the history of Tortuga!
maybe you'll visit tortuga one day sir, I hope to someday .)
You'll have to go to Haiti
Did you sail next to the west cost of puerto rico...mona island 45.7 miles west of puerto rico...a real pirate island of the golden age of pirate's
@@yankee7664 Sadly no. 😞 I don’t sail for the Caribbean Sea until next year and it be the Western part.
@@TheRiverPirate13 ok...well now you know abaut Mona island...there's nice photos off it and videos
Great info. I wrote a novel which included pirates and especially maroons, who form a confederacy with southern tribes such as creeks and seminoles. Yr history of early buccaneers is most informative. Much thanks
Wow, there a few comments on this vid with people who have or plan to write books.
Thanks for making this available, I enjoy the occasional mis wording in English , found the point of banning pig hunting with dogs a random yet fabulous fact, cheers mate
not so random, the pigs were needed after all
Last I viewed the channel it only had less than a hundred subs now it's got 6000 plus. I'm happy for your channel's growth since your content has been incredibly insightful into a subject that is barely covered accurately by other creators on YT.
37000 now
Great Video! Thanks for sharing the knowledge.
The illustrations have me hooked
Caption Hooked
Thank you for the good stuff ! I also use you're vidoes for my D&D pirate campaign.
Thoroughly enjoyed this, loved the editing of the images to the smooth narration.
Thank you very much for this fascinating insight.
look for mona island west of puerto rico...a real pirate hideout ....tortuga is not the only one pirate use in the golden age of pirate's
really liking this channel
Thank you very much for all your work !
I'm also preparing a tabletop RPG campaign to play with friends, and you give a lot more in-depth insight than my Wikipedia exploration so far.
I couldn't even find anywhere on wiki where was this goddamn fort on La Tortue. And the oh-so-many articles citing and recycling Exquermellin are a mess. (At least in the french wikipedia. I might not have wandered so much on the english one.)
I also had no idea the european control of the island was so loose until the arrival of Bertrand d'Ogeron. Now I've got a solid track on the atmosphere of restriction the flibustiers might have smelled with his arrival. At least that's what I'm gonna exploit.
So, thank you again for your work. Your channel is very inspiring.
Really appreciate your channel man! I've been using your videos together with Wikipedia and "the way of the pirates" etc. for my complete "Golden age of piracy" history from 1715 to 1721 with all the major historical figures and their stories. Your videos are really well made and full of information so thank you! Who knows, maybe I'll end up making a book or something from my writing ;)
Please don't write a book if you base your research on Wikipedia, its a shit site full of false fact. Read actual history books instead. The Golden Age of Piracy has a lot of period sources written by pirates or witnesses that you can find in entire books, in collections, or even online. Just don't use wikipedia
@@GoldandGunpowder don't worry I just use it as a tool to have some foundation where to build on. I don't take anything from Wikipedia as a fact. I've watched a lot of documentaries and read a lot of different sources on online. Wikipedia is only because it's easy access to find some basic info at the start when you don't know yet where to look for, then I usually go search more about different things individually to get more accurate information :)
Have you written anything else or would this be your first book? Did you study history academically?
@@stehfreejesseah7893 atm it has turned out to be more like a loooonnggg movie or TV show script than a book. And no, I've never written any books or studied history academically. This is more just something I'm doing for myself for fun. And at this rate that I've been able to slowly write it, it'll probably be ready in 50 years if I'm lucky lol
My hat's off to ya matey. Keep it up!
i'd tip mine too but it was stolen
Another excellent video!
cheers
BAHAMAS. ORIGINALLY A PIRATE BASE, the Bahamas became a formal British colony in 1783. It did not achieve independence until 10th July 1973.
Love your channel
im so buyin a tshirt ... this channel FIRE merci beaucoup frero
Just found your channel, great content you have my sub, I'm laid up waiting on a hip replacement this will give me something to occupy my time for a while and for that I thank you very much
Glad to help, hope your hip replacement works out Paul
@@GoldandGunpowder thanks so glad I found an interesting subject that doesn't repeat everything wikipedia says very refreshing thanks for the effort
Tortuga..was the pirate island....but do you know there was a island call Mona 73.6 km ( 45.7 miles ) west of Puerto Rico whit 200' cliff's and full of natural Caves, wild boars, goat's, iguanas and a hideout for repairs a base from which to raid passing ships....( there's only 2 beach's in mona whit 200' ciff's )...Pirate's like Captain kidd's, Sr. Francis Drake and one of the last pirate's of the caribben ( Puerto rican pirate Roberto cofresi the real inventor of la pina colada some time before 1825 ) were active near Mona...
Great work!
thank you lad
Hey could u maybe do a video on forts in the Caribbean I always liked the shape of them and wondered why they were stars
Every fort built by Europeans during the 1600s were built like stars to better resist cannon barrages and to make them easier to defend against assaults. If the enemy scaled from one side, you could shoot them from another angle. I won't do a separate video on forts but they will be covered in an upcoming video
Thank you, love the vids keep em comin
Provides the most efficient platform to fire in/from any angle or direction. It is also a very stable polygon that indeed can withstand more damage. Many shots would be forced to hit at angles, which could deflect a lot of force. I can't remember which channel but there's a video on the topic by another expert of the era. Sandrhoman Is his name
POLICE DOG. When HMS Greyhound sighted two ships to the east of Long Island, America, the crew had no idea what dangerous pirates they were tangling with. The ships belonged to the infamous Edward Low and his crew. After an eight - hour battle, the Greyhound was victorious. The pirates were brought to justice in the summer of 1723 when 26 of them were hanged.
I cant hear tortogua without seeing danny trejos head riding a turtle through the desert with a bomb strapped to it lol
I do enjoy your videos…
(Do not take this as an insult lol) at times your so good at English that I need cc’s because of the speed you talk, with your accent but I wouldn’t have it any other way xx
get Tortuga rum in Nassau! They’ve got all sorts of things at the Myer’s Rum factory!
i love pirate islands
just dont go there on vacation, you're likely to be robbed
In puerto rico west cost...Mona island...a real parate island use by captain kidd's, sr francis Drake and spanish pirate Roberto Cofresi ( one of the last 2 pirates of the golden age of pirates and the inventor of the pina colada back in the end of 1700's and early 1800's )...yes there's a bar in old San juan that said the pina colada was made here in 1963...and the caribe hilton said they have it in the 50's..in the 20's there was a drink made whit pina , coco and run...yes that's a pina colada....but Roberto Cofresi the pirate have it in 1800's ....if you like more inf...look his name and the island of mona in the internet....🏴☠️🍹
@@yankee7664 The caprisi came first.
Ile de la Tortue (Tortuga) is located in Haiti🇭🇹
i visit every year.
God Save The King. Long Live The King. For Majesty and for Country.
long live the stuarts
In the book called the endless tide, it mentions that the Barbary (Pirate's) Cosiars were envy of my clan. When my clan used to be pirate's, Awesome video keep up the good work
the corsairs fear the scotsman
It would explain one of the reasons why the Barbary pirate's avoided the western isles of Scotland and didn't take the islanders as slaves, when they traveled through the Atlantic ocean to Iceland
Many of the barbary corsiars where actually Dutch. The Dutch liked the life so much that many converted to islam and took wives from north africa.
Totuga my feared island
aye thats the place
@@GoldandGunpowder not Inglis I'm india me to be happy😁 with my family👪 is a great👍👍
Great phrase " economic vote".
2:20 wow okay, I wasn't expecting artwork from Uncharted Waters Online
La Española merely transaltes to the Spanish one, not the "lil Spanish"
Otherwise it would be named La Españolita
Beloved Majesty's Navy.
Would be interesting if this Levasseur were related to Olivier Levasseur
I've seen some scholars speculate on it, but it seems unlikely
Dig the wood sound of the ship.
you just explained the plot for asassins creed black flag dlc
In AC4 it's a well guarded English plantation. Is there any true history to that?
the island is too large for all of it to be a single plantation and by the 1710s the island was still in control by the french
It’s located in haiti
we need more info on these Pirate Women you speak of...
will come in the future
@@GoldandGunpowder Yeah cuz all I know is Anne Bonny, Mary Reed and that Chinese pirate queen
@@visionplant yes the chinese pirate queen....and she was verry powerful...not even the chinese will mess whit her and her army of pirate's...🤯😵💫🏴☠️
cool!
i agree
I use to live there off 10th and hook hand lane ... good times the pirates always had the best booty
Does anyone know a decent pirate mmo ?
pirates of the burning sea, idk how dead it is tho
@@GoldandGunpowder still alive, they are contemplating adding the game to steam to bolster their player base.
What is the female pirates name at 13:50? I can’t decipher what you say. Andela vi?
anne die-le-veut
@@GoldandGunpowder her story the way you told it was much like Jeanne de clisson
No Papi its Tobacco Tobacco, you call me papi one more time.
20th & 21st Centuries Police Boats.
"Excuse me Governor, but why do our finances show these huge expenses for fine French imports?"
"Prostitutes, my boy! Lots and lots of prostitutes! A happy worker is a productive worker!"
May pirates love sea
its the best place there is
H.M. Prison. Police Station Cells.
Reign of King George the 1st. 1 August 1714 - 11 June 1727.
Fta
Lmfao describes French as rude and drunk. ....well much ain't changed there huh?
Rule Britannia.
First lol.
Why the fuck am I so weird
anyone that researches pirate history has to be somewhere on the spectrum(me especially)
What a waste of a strategic island.
11:23 OBAMA IS GONE!
Is this an AI voice?
UA-cam really needs to start requiring channels to list whether or not the narrator is a bot.
John, check the upload date of the video and then check when advanced AI voice modules able to generate audio for UA-cam videos became accessible.
@@GoldandGunpowder A brief dive into this reveals that in 1999, Microsoft released Narrator, an AI voice (screen reader).
AI voices have been used for more than the last two years, and you don't need UA-cam-specific AI voice modules to generate an AI voice, do you?
Are you saying that this is not an AI voice? My frustration stems from the fact that so many channels are using AI voices, and it's hard to figure out which is which. It makes me feel like a lot of UA-cam content is completely soulless.
My apologies, if I offended you. If it's a real voice, there's a compliment in there, because it's smooth and consistent, which was a sign of professionalism before the scourge of AI voices on UA-cam emerged.
Nice videos man, but use shorter words you’re butchering the pronunciation and I can’t understand what your saying half the time
A rude French man ... I'm as shocked as u 😮