Impacts of pirates on Latin America

Introduction

The paper intends to highlight the impacts of Pirates in Latin America during the period of 1711-1830, when North America and Western Europe's navies began battling pirates in the Caribbean colonies. The successful period of pirates belonged to the years of 1720s. The reason of flourishing piracy in Latin America was lawless British seaports such as the French settlement at Tortuga and Port Royal in Jamaica.

Discussion

Piracy in Latin America usually resulted from the European groups mostly French, Dutch and English. They also called buccaneers from the French term boucanier. The pirates were later gone to island ...