Ideally located for the Atlantic slave trade, they grew prosperous and often attracted privateers and pirates, among them Sir Francis Drake, a corsair privateering under Letter of marque granted by the English crown who twice sacked the (then) capital Ribeira Grande in the 1580s.
Among them, Sir Francis Drake, a corsair privateering under Letter of marque granted by the English crown, who twice sacked the (then) capital Ribeira Grande in the 1580s. Ideally located for the Atlantic slave trade, they grew prosperous and often attracted privateers and pirates.
Ideally located for the Atlantic slave trade, they grew prosperous and often attracted privateers and pirates. Among them, Sir Francis Drake, a corsair privateering under Letter of marque granted by the English crown, who twice sacked the (then) capital Ribeira Grande in the 1580s.
Ideally located for the Atlantic slave trade, they grew prosperous and often attracted privateers and pirates. Among them, Sir Francis Drake, a corsair privateering under Letter of marque granted by the English crown, who twice sacked the (then) capital Ribeira Grande in the 1580s.