00:06Welcome to Genoa, a port with a dark past.
00:19There are a lot of weapons in the pirate arsenal.
00:23Guns, knives, daggers, grenades.
00:27They had grenades.
00:31There's another one, psychological warfare.
00:35And Blackbeard was a master of psychological warfare.
00:40The whole thing about the pirate flag is to frighten your enemy into surrendering so you
00:45don't have to fight them.
00:50When two ships come alongside, you can't just stand there and wave at each other.
00:55You've actually got to get on the ship in order to take the ship.
00:59You can't use your big guns because you'll sink it and the treasure's on board.
01:03So how do you get across?
01:06Maybe they've thrown across on roads.
01:08Sadly, there's no evidence for that, but the good news is there's no evidence to say they didn't.
01:15It's no coincidence that we get this great surge in piracy after the War of Spanish Succession.
01:21It had given employment to soldiers and sailors throughout Europe and throughout a lot of North America.
01:27Suddenly, they've got to go back to the farms or their dreary jobs where there perhaps isn't employment for them
01:36anyway.
01:37There certainly isn't the adventure.
01:39There certainly isn't the gold.
01:41There certainly isn't the comradeship.
01:43And they form the Republic of Pirates and they hang out with their friends and create this whole new world
01:50that hasn't got all the rules and the class structure and the oppression of the old world.
01:57You often find there's a crime wave after a big war because men come back and where do they get
02:04their adrenaline rush?
02:05They had to turn to crime.
02:06They had to turn to crime.
02:14They had to turn to crime.
02:17They had to turn to crime.
02:17If you want to protect yourself and destroy them the police from rows of the road.
02:18They justscenes like a dream soon!
02:18Grazie a tutti
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