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Accounts of Baldwin I of Jerusalem's narrow survival after escaping the Battle of Ramla note that he commandeered an English Pirate ship to get to the besieged city of Jaffa. Is it unusual for an Anglo-Saxon pirate vessel to be so deep in the Eastern Mediterranean in the early 1100s?

by /u/Rholles in /r/AskHistorians

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