The Age of Pirates | A Gold Chain Or A Wooden Leg | 1
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Pirates of the Middle East
Captain Thomas Two was one of the first pirates from the American colonies to complete a successful pillaging voyage to the Red Sea and back. Four other New England sailing captains approached him about joining forces with an English pirate named Henry Every. Together they would form an unstoppable pirate fleet that could pick off a whole mughal shipping convoy one by one. Rarely had such a large group of pirates work together, and if they succeeded their combined haul could be many times the value of what two plundered on his last trip.
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