At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Zheng Yi Sao helped command a confederation larger than many national navies—and negotiated an exit that few famous pirates ever received.

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The final years of the Atlantic Golden Age produced some of piracy's most durable legends—and a coordinated imperial campaign to extinguish them.

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When war ended and privateering commissions vanished, Nassau became a base for thousands of sailors who built a temporary world outside ordinary imperial control.

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