Re: Pirates - Was: Places: Dragon Rock Map

> The most famous privateer I know was Sir Francis
> Drake. His actions delayed the Spanish
> attempts to invade England, and when they finally
> did invade he helped to defeat their
> fleet. Those are not the sort of things that a
> typical pirate would do. In later years
> Drake may well have been a high ranking member of a
> special forces organisation like the
> Royal Marines, the Commandos or the Special Boat
> Service.
>

I'm a descendant of his!  And the Marines are the
modern version of Drakes.  Our Marines (the USMC) were
created during the revolutionary war and they were
based upon the British Royal Marines. The Royal
Marines evolved from the drakes during the Hundred
Year war between England and France.  The British
Royal Marines and our revolutionary era marines were
basically ship-bound boarding troops.  The navy got
close, threw out the grappling ropes and dropped
planks between the ships, then the marines took over
and ran across the planks, taking the other ship!
Thus our name, "Marine."  Semper Fi!





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