Francis Drake, Pirate King - Francis Drake (c. 1540-1596). British explorer and famous pirate. He is known to have been the second explorer to complete a circumnavigation of the globe after Magellan.

Francisdrake, respectfully speaking, was born into a poor peasant family in Devon, England, and worked his way up from apprentice to sailor and eventually as a merchant captain, patron of Queen Elizabeth.

Although Britain has begun to transition to the capitalist period of rapid development of productive forces, but due to the lack of primitive accumulation, it is not a seafaring power, the maritime hegemon at that time is the Spaniards, as early as the fifteenth century, the great navigator Columbus discovered the American continent under the patronage of Spain and Portugal (the relationship between Spain and Portugal is very close, and once merged into one country), and then Magellan completed the circumnavigation of the world, so that Spain's understanding of the sea far exceeds that of other European countries, Spain was the first to enter the Americas, while the Portuguese were the first to enter India.

In 1519, the Spaniards found the legendary gold country, after destroying the Aztec and Inca two descendants of the Maya, they completely controlled the South American continent, controlled the gold mines of Peru, in order to cut off the trade with Asia and the Americas, they blocked the shipping routes, strictly forbidden all ships from other countries, non-Spanish ships did not even see the Pacific Ocean, the Pacific Ocean became Spain's private sea, although Britain and France and other countries were resentful, but they also dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, so they had to share some oil and water through the slave trade.

In 1567, Drake's first expedition sailed from England across the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean.

In 1568, Drake and his cousin John Hawkins led five slave ships to Mexico, due to the storm, the ships were badly damaged, at first, the Spanish governor agreed to let them enter the port for repairs, but a few days later suddenly ordered an attack, all the British crew were executed, only Drake and Hawkins escaped from the tiger's mouth, picking up a life, Drake did not understand why Spain slaughtered innocent merchants, and could not figure out why the wealth of the New World could only be enjoyed by Spain. From then on he had a hatred for Spain, and he vowed to take revenge on Spain during his lifetime, thus determining the trajectory of his life. In 1569 a second expedition sailed further from the Caribbean to Central America.

In 1572, Drake gathered a group of people to sneak across the Atlantic Ocean in a small boat, hid in the Isthmus of Panama, like the explorers of the year, crossed the American continent, saw the vast Pacific Ocean for the first time, and after squatting in the South American jungle for nearly a month, robbed ~ robbed the mule team transporting gold, and robbed a few Spanish galleons, and successfully returned to England to become a hero, the significance of this operation is not only to obtain gold, but more importantly, Drake proved that the Spaniards are not inviolable, He was summoned by the Queen and soon became a close confidant of the Queen.

In 1577, he set out from England again, took the flagship "Golden Deer" and went straight to the coast of America, all the way to rob Spanish merchant ships, the Spaniards never dreamed that someone would dare to "mess around in their own backyard", when they sent warships to pursue, Drake had already fled to the south, but due to the blockade of Spain, he could not pass through the narrow Strait of Magellan, in a violent storm, the "Golden Deer" was separated from the rest of the fleet, was blown south as much as 5 degrees, and came to a place that the Spaniards had never been, Since the discovery of the Strait of Magellan, it has been believed that Tierra del Fuego south of the Strait is part of the legendary Southern Continent, but at this time Drake was presented in front of a vast ocean, Drake was stunned by this unexpected discovery, and he happily announced to everyone that "the legendary Southern Continent does not exist, and even if it exists, it must be in a colder part of the south," (to this day we call this vast body of water "Drake Passage"), but Drake has been crossing the Pacific Ocean westward. On July 23, 1579, he reached the Mariana Islands, crossed the Tropic of Cancer on August 22, and returned to the long-lost port of Portsmouth on September 26, becoming once again a "hero of the people". Drake brought back tons of gold and silver, enriching the queen's pockets, and more importantly, Drake opened up a new route for Britain, which greatly promoted the development of British navigation, and he also discovered the wide Drake Passage, since then, the Pacific Ocean is no longer the sea of Spain, as an explorer Drake's achievements have ended here, but as a famous naval warfare expert in the history of naval warfare, his adventure has just begun.

In 1587, Queen Elizabeth of England executed the pro-Spanish Queen Mary of Scots, Spain declared war on Britain, and the two countries finally drew their swords against each other for a long time, but at that time, the English navy was still very weak, with only thirty-four warships, and was unable to fight against the Spanish and Portuguese alliances. Along the Spanish coast, Drake began a "surgical cleansing" outside the port of Cadiz, where he sank 36 Spanish supply ships, and then rushed into the port of Cadiz and sank 33 Spanish ships, and on May 15, Drake's fleet raided an anchorage near Lisbon, and in the chaos thousands of ships collided and sank, and the damage was incalculable. He then captured the fortress of Cape San Vicente, choking the Mediterranean, and on his way home, he robbed King Philip II's personal treasure ship, and stole a fortune worth £110,000. As a result of this series of actions, the war was delayed for at least a year, thus buying precious time for Britain. On May 20, 1588, the Spanish "Invincible Armada" composed of 10 detachments and 130 ships set sail from Lisbon, and on July 19, began to march in the English Channel, in addition to 34 Royal Navy warships, there were 60 private ships, and the vanguard was composed of 34 warships "Drake Detachment", Drake's cousin pirate captain Hawkins also rushed to help, and the two were ready to avenge their comrades who died in the Gulf of Mexico that year. The commander-in-chief of the British side was Lord Howard, and the Spanish side was led by the Duke of Midella, and the Spanish warships at this time were still mainly old-fashioned building ships, which were very large in addition to sailors, but also full of infantry, and the firepower was mainly based on heavy cannons.

Seventeen years ago, the Spaniards relied on this tactic to win the Battle of Lepanto, but at this time the British adopted more advanced tactics, the British battleships were mostly light speedboats, except for sailors, without any infantry, this kind of ship was flexible and light, easier to turn and break through, and completely abandoned the backward way of "broadside warfare", in Drake's words: "The affairs of the sea should be solved by the ship, and it has nothing to do with the infantry." In terms of firepower, the British used light long guns and mostly arranged on both sides, and used Drake to invent the "column tactic" when fighting, so that the ships were arranged head to tail, and bombarded with gunwales, which was a revolution (crab) in the history of naval warfare, and since then artillery has replaced infantry as the protagonist of naval warfare, so before the war began, the fate of the destruction of the Spanish fleet was already doomed

On the morning of July 22, the British fleet wedged the Spanish fleet in a formation of "a single long line" by virtue of the tailwind, and due to advanced tactics and flexible maneuvering, not a single ship was seized by the Spanish army, and by July 25 the Spanish had lost a tenth of their ships, while the British side had joined Lord Simor's reinforcements to bring the total number of ships to 136, and on the evening of July 28, at the suggestion of Drake and others, Howard ordered the use of ancient fireship tactics, (see "The Battle of Red Cliffs") the Spanish fleet was in disarray, unable to maintain formation, the British ships took the opportunity to make a surprise attack.

From 9 o'clock in the morning of the 29th to 6 o'clock in the afternoon, the two fleets were mixed with each other without formation, firing in groups of three or five, until there were no shells, Spain lost nearly half of the ships killed and wounded 1,400 people, and the British army did not sink a ship and suffered less than 100 casualties, this is the famous Anglo-Spanish naval battle in history, since then, Spain has been in a slump, Britain has gradually replaced it as the overlord of the sea, and Drake was named Lord of England, climbing to the highest peak in the history of piracy.

Brother Redbeard

The father of the red-bearded brother Hayreddin was named Yakupa?a, a Turkish Muslim; Her mother's name was Katerina, a Greek Christian, and she was said to be a widow of a pastor. According to Ottoman records, his father was T?Marl?Sipahi, a knight similar to Western Europe, and in 1462, Sultan Mehmedii seized the island of Les~Bos from Genoa and divided it, and Yakupa was among them. In the 70s of the 15th century, he and his wife had four sons and two daughters, and there is not much information about his daughters, and the four sons were: Ishak, Oru?, H?Z?r, and Ilyas, with Hareddin being the third.

Yakupa?a worked as a potter on the island of Les~Bos, and he also bought a ship for trade. All four sons helped their father, with the eldest Oru?, who was mainly responsible for driving the boats, and Hareddin helping to make pottery.

The four sons were all interested in maritime trade, but the eldest Ishak inherited his father's mantle and did not go to sea; Oru? and Ilyas teamed up, and Hayreddin started on his own. All three brothers began as ordinary sailors, but later turned pirates, engaged in privateering, and fought against the Knights of St. John on Rhodes. The two were mainly active in Syria, Anatolia, Egypt and Levant, while Hayreddin developed in the Aegean Sea and established his presence in the Thessaloniki area.

On one of the Redbeards' return from Tripoli to Lebanon, Oru?'s fleet was attacked by the Knights of St. John, and his brother Ilyas was killed in battle, while he himself was wounded and taken prisoner, and imprisoned in a prison in Bodrum for almost three years. Later, Hayreddin learned the news and went to rescue his brother. After escaping and trying to make a comeback, he gained the appreciation of the Turkish prince Shehzadekorkud and the Mamluk sultan Qansuhal-Ghawri, and was supported by ships. In 1503, Hareddin acted in partnership with him. The following year, they received permission from the Sultan of North Africa to use Lagoulette as a base for piracy, and a third of the proceeds went to the Sultan. As a result, many ships from the Pope were killed, and even a Sicilian warship loaded with 380 Spanish soldiers and 60 knights from Aragon was captured. In 1505, they attacked the coast of Calabria in Italy. These achievements made them famous, and many famous Islamic pirates joined their ranks. In 1508, they raided the Italian coast of Liguria.

Perhaps it was because his brother's pirate business was booming, and the eldest Ishak rushed to join him in 1509. Between 1504 and 1510, Oru?'s fleet brought many Muslims from Spain back to North Africa, a move that brought him great fame, and people gave him the honorific title babaoru?, which means the same as in Chinese: father. However, the name was changed to Barbarossa, the name of the famous Holy Roman Emperor Frederick. Between 1510 and 1516, the three Hayreddin brothers roamed the western Mediterranean, clashing with the Spanish army on several occasions. In August 1512, Bougie's exiled ruler asked the three brothers to drive out the Spaniards from his territory, and in this battle Oru?, who lost his left hand and later fitted with a silver prosthetic, from which he received the nickname "Silver Arm".

In 1516, Hareddin and others seized Guijli and Algiers from Spain, but also drove out the original ruler of the area, Abuhamomusa III. The Spaniards appealed to Charles V, King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, for help, but the Spanish fleet was helpless against the Hayreddin brothers. From then on, they became the true rulers of Algiers, and they established themselves as sultans.

Oru understood that their brothers alone could not fight against Spain for a long time, and they needed a strong backer. So, he chose Ottoman Turkey. In 1517, Oru?, dethroned his sultan title and gave Algiers to Selim I. The Turkish Sultan accepted the gift and made Algiers a province, appointed Oru?, the governor of the region, and commanded the maritime affairs of the Western Mediterranean, as well as providing him with military supplies.

The Spaniards ordered Abuzayan, the governor of Tlemcen and Oran, to attack Oru?, but was defeated and Tlemcen fell into Oru?'s hands. Enraged, the Spaniards launched an army of 10,000 in May 1518 and joined forces with the Bedouins to attack again, and Oru?, with his brother Ishak, led 1,500 Turks and 5,000 Moors at Tlemcen to resist for 20 days before being killed. Since then, Hayreddin has inherited his brother's fortune and career, including the name Barbarossa.

With the help of the Turks, Khareddin recaptured Tlemcen in December 1518, and he continued his policy of repatriating the Moriscos from Spain, which allowed him to gain the support of the Muslim masses. In 1519 he defeated the Spanish and Italian armies that tried to retake Algiers, and from then on he continued to harass southern France, the Italian coast, and the Spanish coast, destroying many port forts.

In May 1529, Hayreddin captured the Spanish castle on the island of Peñón outside the port of Algiers, and took complete control of the entire port of Algiers. In August of the same year, he attacked the Mediterranean coast of Spain and helped 70,000 Moriscos escape from Andalusia seven times in a row.

In 1531, Charles V ordered Andrew Doria (Andreduria) to lead a Spanish-Genoese coalition of 40 ships to recapture Guigéli and Pe?ón. Hareddin raided the Favignana of Sicily under the noses of the Knights of Malta, then Calabria and Puglia in Italy, and on the way back to Algiers, sank a ship of the Order of Malta in Messina. In October of the same year, he again attacked the Spanish coast.

In 1532, Suleiman the Magnificent made an expedition to Austria, and Andrew took the opportunity to capture Coron, Patras and Lepanto on the Peloponnese coast, which made Suleiman realize the importance of a good naval commander. He summoned Hayreddin to Istanbul and set out to sea in August of that year, advancing all the way and capturing 18 Spanish ships near Messina. According to the captive's confession, Hayreddin learned that Andrew was heading to Preveza, Greece, and immediately caught up and fought a battle, and Andrew retreated after losing seven ships. By this time, Hareddin already had 44 warships under his command, but he was cunning and ordered 25 of them to return to Algiers, and he himself returned to Istanbul with the remaining 19. Suleiman the Magnificent was so pleased with Hayreddin's performance that he appointed him Marshal of the Admiralty of Ottoman Tülls and Chief Governor of North Africa, and he also administered the islands of Rhodes, Evieux, and Chios.

In 1534, Hayreddin led a fleet of 80 warships from Istanbul to recapture the Spaniard-occupied Coron, Patras and Lepanto in April, and then repeatedly attacked Italian cities such as Lazio and Naples, and churches in Rome often sounded alarms. In August, he marched south, capturing Tunisia and driving out his sultan, Muleihassan.

Muleihassan appealed to Charles V for help, and Spain and Italy sent a large army of 300 warships and 24,000 soldiers to North Africa. Knowing that he would not be able to match him, Hayreddin voluntarily abandoned Tunisia and continued his guerrilla warfare along the Spanish coast. In September 1535, he defeated the Spanish attack again at Tlemcen.

Hayreddin

In 1536, Khareddin was recalled to Istanbul to receive orders to attack the Habsburg Kingdom of Naples. In July 1537 he landed in Otranto and captured the city, followed by the capture of the castle of Castro and Ugento. In August of the same year, Hayreddin and Lütfipasha captured the Aegean Sea and the Ionian islands of the Republic of Venice, and Helledin also captured Corfu in Venice that year. This led Venice to ask Pope Paul III to organize a "Holy Alliance" against Turkey. In February of the following year, the Pope formed such an alliance, consisting of the Papal Order, Venice, the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, and the Knights of Maltese.

In September 1538, the combined fleet of the Holy League, led by Andrew, engaged Hayreddin near Preveza, Greece, which resulted in Hyreddin's victory. The victory also cemented Turkey's hegemony in the Mediterranean for the next 33 years, which was not changed until the Battle of Lepanto in 1571.

Beginning in the summer of 1539, Hayreddin encroached on Venetian territory, forcing it to sign a peace agreement with the Ottoman Turks in October 1540, recognizing the Turkish territorial acquisition and paying compensation of 300,000 ducats (a type of gold coin used at the time).

In September 1540, Charles V contacted Hayreddin and tried to buy him, but was refused. Unable to win over Hayreddin, and wanting to put an end to the pirate threat to Spanish territory and Christians in the Western Mediterranean, Charles V decided to raise an army to lay siege to Algiers in October 1541. However, the season was not suitable for combat, and Andrew's persuasion was unsuccessful, resulting in a storm that caused many Spanish ships to run aground during landing. After a few rounds of hurried exchanges, Charles V had to abandon the operation.

In 1543, Hayreddin traveled to Marseille to assist the Ottoman ally France, and while passing through the Strait of Messina, he demanded the surrender of the governor of Calabria, Diegogaetani. The enemy responded with artillery fire and killed three Turkish sailors. Enraged, Hayreddin besieged and captured the city, and then attacked Rome. The French supported Rome at this time, so Hareddin occupied Nice on 5 August and spent a winter in Toulon and his 30,000 men, during which time he occasionally harassed Spain and converted the church of St. Mary in Toulon into a mosque. At that time, the Ottoman currency could be circulated locally.

The period 1544-1545 was the last time for Highreddin's naval career, during which time he fought several more battles with Spain, only to rest in 1544 when Charles V reached a peace agreement with Suleiman. In 1545 Hayreddin retired from the army in Istanbul, and his son Hasanpasha became his successor in Algiers. The Muradisinanreis wrote five volumes of the Memoriesofhayreddinpasha based on the dictation of Hayreddin, which are now preserved in Topkapi Palace and the Istanbul University Library. In 1546, Hareddin died in Istanbul.

Calico Jack

"Calico Jack" was originally named John? Luckham, who has such a nickname, is because he always wears striped trousers and a coat.

He became famous due to the fact that his accomplices were two female pirates, Anne? Bonnie and Mary? Reed.

"Calico Jack" began his career as a pirate with Charles? Control of Wayne's ships.

Wayne is the captain of a pirate treasure ship and is thwarted in a fight with a French soldier. Enraged by Wayne's cowardice, "Calico Jack" led his men in a mutiny, driving Wayne and his supporters into a small sailing ship and banishing them. "Calico Jack" was then transformed from a quartermaster into a new captain.

Annie? Bonnie and Mary? Reed is the pirate captain John? Two of Leckham's accomplices dressed as men. They were fierce-tempered, and were said to be as fierce as the men who fought together. Annie? Bony met Jack "Calico" on New Providence? Rackham, so she abandoned her original husband James? Bonnie, who became a pirate with Jack. On the pirate ship, she dressed like a man and quickly became famous, as she was as ruthless as the other pirates on board.

Strikingly, there was another female pirate on board. Mary? Reed is also a woman dressed as a man, and joined "Calico Jack" a few years before Annie. From a young age, Mary? Reed embarked on the adventure. Before meeting Annie? Before Bonney, Reed had been a soldier like a man, a sailor on a cargo ship, and a crew member on a privateer. According to everyone, Annie? Bonnie and Mary? Reed was as brave and mighty as the men who fought side by side.

In 1720, the royal governor Woods? Rogers' Admiral Burnett, who was in charge of hunting down pirates, attacked their ship. While the pirates were drinking, they were frightened into the hold when they saw the British Navy, while the two female pirates fought the attackers. They were all defeated, and all the pirates were tried and sentenced to death.

Annie? Bonnie and Mary? Reid declared that they were both pregnant, avoiding immediate hanging. However, Mary eventually died of fever. Anne later gave birth to a child, and for some reason, her death sentence was postponed. Later, Anne mysteriously disappeared, and people never heard from her again.

In 1720, the royal governor Woods? When Rogers' pirate search party attacked Calico Jack's ship, Anne and Mary were on board at the time. During the battle, "Calico Jack" escaped and hid in the hold with his accomplices, leaving Anne and Mary on deck against the British. Later, the pirates were defeated, and "Calico Jack" was tried and hanged. Legend has it that the pirate Calico Jack was hanged, his head hung on an isolated island, and the seabirds devoured his wreckage - this was the sad fate of the pirates.

Henry Morgan

Henry Morgan was born in 1635 on the estate of a large family in Wales. When the British Navy seized the Caribbean island of Jamaica from the Spaniards in 1655, Henry Morgan was a soldier in the English army and became acquainted with thieves, swindlers, fugitives, and murderers on the island. These people are entangled in many gangs of pirates. To fight the Spaniards, the British Navy needed them.

When Christopher Columbus saw the island of Jamaica on his first voyage to the Caribbean Sea in 1494, he wrote: "The most beautiful island that catches the eye, with mountains and land touching the sky." "The island's main peak of the Blue Mountains is more than 2,200 meters high, and later produced the world-famous Blue Mountain coffee. Rich in vegetation and flowing streams, it is a paradise for tropical animals.

However, the British set foot in Jamaica from a small barren area on the southeast coast of the island, relatively isolated from the rest of the island from the rest of the island, in good faith against the Spanish on land. The British built a fortress here, called Port Royal. In just a few years, Port Royal has become the center of trade in the Caribbean, thriving as a decadent and notorious secular paradise known as "the worst city on earth". It is said that it was not easy to find a place of filth and filth that was even more disgusting than Port Royal. Under British rule, it was the capital of Jamaica and the heavenly kingdom of pirates.

The pirates carried the British government's robbery~robbery charter, attacked the Spanish merchant ships and settlements, and then came to Port Royal to indulge in profligacy. According to records at the time, Port Royal was filled with rum, and many people died drinking it. The only task of the Lady is to help the sailors say goodbye to the money in their pockets.

Before moving on to the story of Henry Morgan, it is important to explain the ending of Port Royal. In 1692, a major earthquake pushed two-thirds of Port Royal into the sea, and soon after, a fire broke out, and Port Royal was devastated. The story of the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" takes place in Port Royal. If the film follows a historical timeline, then its story should take place before 1692. After the disaster at Port Royal, people went to the land on the other side of the harbour to establish the city, which is now Kingston.

We can hear the praise and nostalgia for Kingston in many Latin American songs, which was once the world's largest trading port and is still the seventh largest natural port in the world today. Port Royal is now a low-key fishing village, surrounded by a former fortress and a sea breeze. Sadly, Kingston today still has a reputation as a criminal and [***] paradise.

In 1663, Henry Morgan led his men to the Mesoamerican continent to raid the Spanish territory and plunder a large amount of treasure. When he returned to Port Royal in 1665, he was pleasantly surprised to find that his uncle, Edward Morgan, had become the commander of the English army in the Caribbean. He married the daughter of Edward Morgan. After his uncle's death, he was appointed commander of the paramilitary forces in Port Royal.

By 1668, Morgan had become a vice admiral in the English navy, commanding a fleet of 15 ships and a crew of more than 900 men. At the same time, the pirates elected him as the successor to Mansfield, the chief Jamaican pirate leader. This time, Morgan was both a high-ranking British [***] officer and a pirate commander, and the Spaniards were on the verge of disaster. That year, Morgan attacked Cuba and then Panama. The Panamanian city was large and heavily defended, and many experienced pirates thought it was impossible to break it. Using a canoe, Morgan sneaked into the harbor at night and broke through the first two lines of defense, which were then blocked by a third strong line of defense. He came up with the sinister idea of using the captured priests and nuns as a shield for the army, taking advantage of the panic of his Catholic enemies to take the town. Henry Morgan became famous, known as "theterrible".

A year later, Morgan went on another expedition, leading eight ships and 650 sailors to attack two cities on the coast of the Gulf of Venezuela. They found that the return trip had been blocked by Spanish troops, that there were artillery on the shore of the bay, and that three huge warships were lying outside the strait. Morgan ordered the Spaniards to blow up and sink two enemy ships in small boats loaded with offending words. Another enemy ship was also captured by the pirates. He also sent men to feign a landing, so that the Spaniards mistakenly believed that the pirates intended to fight on land, so they turned the guns around. That night, under the cover of twilight, Morgan led the fleet quietly out of the bay. After this battle, Morgan established himself as the king of pirates.

In January 1670, 36 ships and 2,000 pirates responded to Morgan's call and rallied to Panama. The Spaniards fought hard and suffered heavy losses. The pirates won the final victory, and they plundered 2 million pounds. However, by this time Britain had signed an armistice with Spain, Britain had the upper hand, and Henry Morgan was summoned home and thrown into a dungeon for destroying the stability and unity. King Charles II pardoned him and knighted him in 1673, making him Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica and helping the government eradicate pirates. For the next 15 years, Henry Morgan faithfully carried out the king's orders, until his death in 1688.

Don Estemba Catarina, Queen of Spanish pirates

Catarina was born in Spain in the middle of the 18th century, was the daughter of the king of Barcelona at that time, unlike those English pirates who came from the bottom of the society and had a rogue habit, she received an orthodox aristocratic education since she was a child, her father had great hopes for her, so he was very strict with her, but Catarina was born a lively and active girl, a little girl who likes martial arts and hates literature, and when she was still very young, she rode horses and rowed boats with her beloved brother, under the influence of her brother, completely embarked on a "career transfer route" that belonged to boys

By the age of seventeen, Katarina, who was already slim, was already a "strong woman" with high martial arts, both swordsmanship and marksmanship to the point of perfection. It seems good today, but at the time she was completely out of line with the aesthetics of high society, and in the words "he didn't look like a young lady at all" (like Hilgel Marindorff in "The Legend of Yinying").

Finally, at the age of eighteen, his half-angry father sent her to the convent, hoping that she would be able to restrain herself there, but Katarina was born a girl who longed for freedom, and she couldn't bear this semi-captivity life, so she was ruthless, and resolutely cut off her long red hair (now it became Gilfias), escaped from the convent and broke away from the [***] family, disguised as a man and began a wandering life, in order to survive she did various occupations, working as a boy in a bar, After working as a postman at the post office, serving in the Thieves' Regiment and as a sailor, he signed up for the Army a year later in Peru and successfully concealed his identity.

In the army at that time, unequal incidents occurred frequently, the commander not only deducted military salaries, but also bullied others, often beat and scolded the soldiers, the surname of Katarina was unwilling to be humiliated, one night, in a large-scale collective conflict, she killed the colonel who was the deputy commander of the garrison in a fit of rage, and the colonel's adjutant sword to sword fight, because it was too dark at the time, no one could see each other's faces clearly, but both sides understood that the opponent was a first-class master, Sihao did not dare to slacken, after a fierce battle, Catarina won the final victory, but before she could enjoy the joy, she was surprised to find that she had killed her brother who had been in the army for many years, (in "Age of Exploration 2", Catarina's brother died at the hands of the Spanish Marquis Martínez), and the grief-stricken Catarina fell into deep self-blame and remorse, she fled the station overnight, and joined the pirate gang in desperation.

In the vast sea, the surname Katarina quickly became a piece with the pirates, the pirates admired her superb navigation skills and skillful martial arts, and she also loved the sincerity and straightforwardness of the pirates, in a naval battle, the captain died, she was elected as the new captain, then the pirates were surprised to find that their captain turned out to be a runaway daughter, so Catarina began a decade-long campaign to kill, she has ten ships and thousands of men, fought all over the South Atlantic to rob ~A large number of ships were robbed, and those British pirates who tried to compete for territory with her were also turned into needles under her sword, but this pirate queen also had her own rules: she never attacked a Spanish ship, and often rescued those shipwrecked Spanish merchant ships, and she missed her homeland all the time in her heart, and the British at that time was very troubled by this "pirate queen", so she put pressure on the Spanish political axe to help destroy Catarina.

At the beginning of the tenth year, Catarina's team was routed by the Spanish fleet, and the young lady, nicknamed "Fire Girl", was also brought back to Madrid for trial, and after a first-instance verdict sentenced to death, but the people unanimously agreed that she was innocent, this incident alarmed King Philip III, and with his intervention the court reopened the case, and finally acquitted Catarina, not only that, but the king personally summoned the "hero of Spain" and rewarded her with "large sums of money and fiefs" (obviously ill-intentioned, Make a girlfriend with the people's hard-earned money) Katarina has always lived there and never married.

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