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During the Golden Age of Piracy, did Pirates ever battle each other? At sea on their ships, or different crews rivaling against each other on islands, towns, etc?	6
How historically accurate are the ships in the show "Black Sails"?	6
Pirates liked the Bahamas because they could traverse the dangerously shallow waters with their smaller vessels to escape larger enemy ships. How big was too big for a ship to sail through the Bahamian archipelago in the Golden Age of Piracy?	6
Was there trench warfare before WW1?	6
I have some questions about how the Lords Proprietors of the Bahamas worked as a government and what governmental roles were positioned at the time.	6
In Assassin's Creed Rogue, one of the years is set in 1754 where in one cutscene the main protagonist sails into the port of Lisbon, Portugal, on a British man o' war. How were Anglo-Portuguese relations just before the Seven Year's War started?	6
The Powder Mage trilogy by Brian McClellan is a flintlock fantasy book series featuring "powder mages" who have the magical ability to consume and control gunpowder. Are there any stories or legends from the flintlock era (i.e. the 1700s) of story characters possessing a similar ability?	6
Are there any records of 18th century privateers working on the same side who would purposely try to sink each other's ships, so that the surviving ship would deal with less competition, and thus, make more profit from enemy vessels they are cruising for on a voyage?	5
The Wikipedia article on chase guns in the Age of Sail shows an image of the cannons on the forecastle on the ship model of the “Soleil-Royal.” How would the aim of these guns, when fired, not be obstructed by the front of its own ship?	5
In the Seven Years' War would a British admiral or commodore take command of their own ship, or did they just sort of "own it" and let it be commanded by its own captain?	5

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