Sailing to Jamaica, he deserted his ship and, with some companions of a like mind, stole a canoe and set off to the Grand Cayman Islands, and there met with some 200 buccaneers and pirates.
Suffered a severe defeat at the hands of the Spaniards at Quibo, afterwards being rescued by Townley, with whom he and his crew of buccaneers sacked Granada in Nicaragua.
As soon as they were away from the land, they turned buccaneers or pirates, and sailed to Sierra Leone in West Africa.
Both thebuccaneers and the pirates had their favourite haunts and places of rendezvous.
While building a new but small craft on one of the Las Pertas Islands, they cultivated beans and other vegetables, and also wheat, for which they baked bread in portable ovens which these French buccaneers carried about with them.
In 1686 he sailed in command of a company of buccaneers to assist Governor Wells, of St. Kitts, against the French.
Occasionally the Spaniards or the French, without any warning, would swoop down on the settlement and break up the small republic, but sooner or later the buccaneers would be back once again in possession.
In 1680 he took a leading part in the march of the buccaneers across the Isthmus of Darien, but during the attack on the Spanish Fleet off Panama he was shot in both legs, and died of his wounds.
In 1665, when war had been declared on Holland, the Governor of Jamaica issued commissions to several pirates and buccaneers to sail to and attack the Dutch islands of St. Eustatius, Saba, and Curacao.
A member of the crew of Coxon's canoe, he was killed in the famous attack by the buccaneers on the Spanish Fleet off Panama in 1680.
Most of these men were buccaneers or privateers, who made a living in this way when out of a job afloat.
The chivalry of finance did not permit of a revelation that Mr. Grannis and his buccaneers were behind the Automatic, but it was possible to direct and strengthen the backfire which the Era and other conservative newspapers had already begun.
Again and again she was forced to yield to the heavy tributes and disgraceful penalties of buccaneers and legalized pirates who, like Drake, came to plunder her under royal patent.
The city was burned three times by the French buccaneers during their struggles with the Spanish colonial authorities and later by the Haitian general Christophe on the occasion of the retreat of the emperor Dessalines in 1805.
The few rocky coves along the shore were a favorite resort for buccaneersin days gone by.
The protected character of the inlet made it a favorite resort for pirates in the seventeenth century, and beginning with 1673, French buccaneers made several attempts to settle here but were driven out by the Spanish authorities.
The buccaneers in like manner were deluded by more mischievous songs and antics, till bogged and crying out behind the scenes.
These were followed by the merry fairies and elves; then by the buccaneers and the captive prisoners; and the rear was brought up by MacProspero, as Lord Rotherwood called him, with his niece on his arm and his nephew by his side.
He's the finest buccaneer I ever met outside of story books," whispered Mason, as if meeting buccaneers was an every day occurrence with him.
And do you think that Captain Dynamite is one of those buccaneers that he told us about?
And the buccaneers themselves, how simple and yet how effective are the little touches which indicate their ways of thinking and of acting.
Scott's buccaneers in "The Pirate" are admirable, but they lack something human which we find here.
Indeed, both Kidd and the Buccaneers had more apology for their deed than the American Cabinet.
In this retreat, so far distant from the abodes of civilization, the buccaneers had reared forts, and built mansions which they had converted into harems.
He engaged many other buccaneers in his service, and soon had an army of nearly eight hundred men ready to follow him to the death.
As we have had frequent occasion to mention, these buccaneers had nothing to fear from the English courts so long as they confined themselves to robbing the Spanish ships.
John Esquemeling, who witnessed these scenes, of which he wrote an account, says that the governor of the island bought of these buccaneers a shipload of cocoa, for not one-twentieth part its real value.
In the mean time the successful buccaneers were making their way back to their rendezvous at Madagascar.
The buccaneers seized this island, and sent to the French governor of St. Christopher’s to furnish them with aid to fortify it.
We will give one incident illustrative of the mode in which these buccaneers operated.
Cautiously the buccaneersdescended the hill, throwing themselves upon their faces as the explosions of the massive guns showered the balls around them.
It was crowded with pirates, or buccaneersas they would perhaps prefer to have been called, whom he had taken from Tortuga.
These buccaneers were generally, as we have said, Englishmen, Frenchmen, or Germans.
As soon as darkness veiled the scene the buccaneersall assembled in ambuscade, anticipating a midnight attack.
The buccaneers are so audacious that they seek no concealment.
Have the buccaneers taken to praying, or does their trade thrive in this heel of the war?
The History of the American Buccaneers is a rare book to be found in a lady's library!
As you know, that borders on the Caribbean Sea, the old Spanish main that the buccaneersroved on for centuries.
Those were wild and reckless days in that quarter of the world, with the buccaneersroaming up and down the Spanish Main, sinking ships and once in a while attacking the towns on the coast and robbing them of their treasures.
Here Bluebeard's castle still stands a mute reminder of the romantic days when buccaneers dominated the Spanish Main.
It was joined by twelve hundredbuccaneers in the West Indies; and although Carthagena was then the strongest city in the New World, its forts and castles were carried by storm in rapid succession.
The term of his service having expired, he repaired to Jamaica, where the temptations spread before him by the buccaneers of rapidly arriving at wealth and fame, induced him to join their community.
B] It is a curious fact, not, I believe, very extensively understood, that the great English circumnavigator Dampier was for a considerable period connected with the buccaneers after the flight of Morgan.
But they had not been long at sea before the buccaneers discovered that their rapacious commander was meditating how he should deprive them of their share of the plunder.
This was the last memorable event in the history of the buccaneers of America, although a lower order of piracy prevailed, both in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, for many years afterward.
Dampier quitted the buccaneers at the island of Nicoba, in the spring of 1688.
Six hundred Spaniards lay dead upon the field, and the buccaneers suffered so severely that they were forced to desist from an immediate pursuit, and obtain some rest.
The buccaneers had eighty killed and wounded, not one of the latter recovering--an evidence of the desperation with which they fought.
Looking seaward from its quay walls, we may recall the doings of the old buccaneers of the Spanish Main, and of other filibusters, who from time to time have sacked the place since its founding in the sixteenth century.
Fearing that the French might join forces with the buccaneers and attack their small squadron on the way back, they retained de Fontenay's brother as a hostage until they reached the city of San Domingo.
Providence Island was now in the hands of an English garrison, and the Spaniards were not slow to realise that the possession of this outpost by the buccaneersmight be but the first step to larger conquests on the mainland.
De Pointis, however, insisted upon the order which he had published before the expedition sailed from Petit Goave, that the buccaneers should be subject to the same rule in the division of the spoil as the sailors in the fleet, i.
In March 1694 the Jesuit writer, Labat, took part in a Mass at Martinique which was performed for some French buccaneers in pursuance of a vow made when they were taking two English vessels near Barbadoes.
Catholicism was restored, commerce was patronized and buccaneers encouraged to use the port.
According to Exquemelin the original goal of the buccaneerswas the town of Nata, north of Panama.
The buccaneers suffered severely, losing about 150 in killed and wounded, including Bradley himself who died ten days later.
The articles which fixed the conditions under which the buccaneers sailed were commonly called the "chasse-partie.
The buccaneers sacked the town, and scoured the woods in search of the Spaniards and their valuables.
Governor Modyford, therefore, seeing the French very much increased in Hispaniola, concluded that it was high time to entice the buccaneers from French service and bind them to himself by issuing commissions against the Spaniards.
Great extremes of fortune, such as those to which the buccaneers were subject, have always exercised an attraction over minds of an adventurous stamp.
Petit-Goave had been frequented by buccaneers since 1659, and after d'Ogeron succeeded du Rausset as governor for the French in those regions, it became with Tortuga one of their chief resorts.
Think of us cruising around the Spanish main where the old buccaneers used to roam," laughed Dick.
And kings we are," said Captain Flint; "didn't they call the Buccaneers Sea Kings in the olden time?
Having secured their vessel close to the shore, the buccaneers now landed, all save one, who was left in charge of the schooner.
For the Spaniards, aware of the advantages derived by the buccaneers and pirates from the goats-flesh they here procured, have endeavoured to extirpate the breed, on purpose to deprive their enemies of this resource.
Former writers have related that this island abounded with vast numbers of goats, and their accounts are not to be questioned, as this place was the usual resort of the buccaneers and privateers who used formerly to frequent these seas.
But our best hope, it was decided, was to kill off the buccaneers until they either hauled down their flag or ran away with the Hispaniola.
There lay the schooner, clear at last from buccaneers and ready for our own men to board and get to sea again.
I began to suppose that he had paid the buccaneers a visit, while they all lay drunk together round their fire, and I reckoned up with glee that we had only fourteen enemies to deal with.
The buccaneers remained rooted to the ground, their eyes starting from their heads.
But, indeed, from what I saw, all these buccaneers were as callous as the sea they sailed on.
The loyalty of his subordinate buccaneers of the Cristobal was not to be questioned seriously, for it had been tested in many tight places.
Old Trowley hacked a place for himself in the thickest of the press, and laid about him with such desperate fury and such fearful oaths that the buccaneers hustled each other to get out of his way.
In your character of the captain of these buccaneers you asked me, an English officer, to be your friend and companion--to share with you this command.
During the voyage he learned by degrees the whole history of the escape of the relics of his crew, consequent upon the division in the camp and the chaotic state of discipline which obtained among the buccaneers during the latter days.
On his right the forest was dense, but the buccaneers had cut down and burned numbers of trees so as to keep them back from encroaching farther on the old buildings; and along here among the mossy stumps Humphrey Armstrong crept.
He found that the buccaneers went out but seldom, and that when expeditions were made they would be fairly divided.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buccaneers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
