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On August 16th 1706 the Franco-Spanish fleet bound for Charleston sailed northwest to Saint Augustine along the way and there is an incident where “a Dutch sloop separates the 72-gun Brillante.” What was a Dutch vessel doing so far away from the closest major Dutch colonies (Aruba, Curacao)?	3
As a Southern Ontario resident, I still dread Summer 2020's three straight weeks of 30 C (86 F) feeling like 40 C (104 F) degree temperatures. I'm wondering if we know what the average summer temperature here was like for Europeans colonizers since they were experiencing the Little Ice Age?	3
Why did Spanish privateer ships operating around Cuba in the early 1700's allow blacks and natives to join their crews?	3
What exotic animals (parrots, monkeys, etc.) could be kept as pets during the Golden Age of Piracy, and were there ways of getting them other than from markets?	3
How is it that HMS Pearl, a 5th rate frigate of 42 guns, weighed 550 tons, while the Queen Anne’s revenge, another frigate that had 2 guns less than the Pearl, weighed only 200 tons?	3
How did the French navy rate their warships in the early 1700’s?	2
How accurate are the soldiers' outfits and warships in Assassin's Creed IV : Black Flag?	2
The Wikipedia page for “Chase guns” states that from 1799, Royal Navy frigates were “were universally supplied with two bow and two stern chasers”...Why did it take almost a century of British naval supremacy to make this addition?	2
Did hangmen in the Golden Age of Piracy really dress so grim?	2
I was once told that France's system of warship ranks in the 1700's was similar to the British, though instead of assigning a rate ships were classed simply based on the number of guns they carried. What classes of ships would there have been and how many guns would each class have carried?	2

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