Chapter 3450 Hell Cat (V)

Bellamy was a pirate for only one year, but he achieved great results that Benjamin Hornigold had not achieved in his years of privateering.

After returning to her room, Georgiana found the map of the east coast of North America that she had just obtained from the customs office. After spreading it out, she looked for a place called Cape Cod.

This place was easy to find. According to the national policy formulated by Queen Elizabeth, the first thing to do was to train a lot of sailors. Ocean fishing was a good reason, and even the taste of British people had changed to eating fish.

Massachusetts was the earliest North American colony, so she first found Boston, and then found Cape Cod Bay to the south of Boston. It was like a boot worn by a medieval clown, with a long pointed toe. Cape Cod was probably located at the "instep".

Soon she also found Eastham, which was also located on the "boot", not far from Cape Cod, and that was where Bellamy's flagship Whydah sank.

Bellamy had been a sailor on a cod boat since he was 9 years old. How could he not be familiar with the water conditions and reefs of Cape Cod?

However, the Whydah still sank due to a storm and a reef. Only nine survivors were found, and the leader Bellamy was missing.

"You bastard." Georgiana whispered, holding a magnifying glass and looking for Salem in the north of Eastham.

In the 17th century, slave traders often built large ships to carry as many slaves as possible, but Georgiana didn't believe that "Black Sam" would put all the treasures on the ship.

Like all pirate stories, "Black Sam" would probably hide them in a safe place, which either existed in his mind or was drawn on the "treasure map".

Perhaps many, many years later, a teenager found a scroll while cleaning the attic, and the treasure map was hidden in it.

Just like what you have to say when you want to open the Marauder's Map, "I solemnly swear that I don't do good things."

Although Georgiana didn't plan to go to the stinking tunnel, she at least wanted to make this job "a little more interesting."

Soon she found Salem. If she went by sea, Salem could reach Eastham in a straight line. Judging from the scale, it would not exceed 10 nautical miles.

She put down the magnifying glass, stood up straight, and looked down at the map.

In addition to "Blackbeard", there is another famous character in the Caribbean Pirates, named "Anne of Red Hair", who is not the innocent and kind "Anne of Green Gables".

Her father is a lawyer. He had an affair with the maid while his wife was pregnant, and then Anne was born.

Her father's wife soon learned about this, and she framed Anne's mother for theft and put her in jail. But soon the public, the judge and even the mistress softened their hearts, and the maid was finally acquitted, but the relationship between the couple officially broke down.

Anne's grandmother hoped that her son and daughter-in-law would reconcile, but was flatly rejected by her son. The mother did not give the inheritance to her son, but to her daughter-in-law.

Anne's father continued to interact with the maid and paid attention to his daughter's situation. When Anne was 5 years old, her father decided to take her in to live.

He dressed her up as a boy and pretended that she was a young apprentice, thinking that he could get away with it, but his wife soon found out.

After the mistress cut off her husband's funds, he simply took the maid and daughter to the New World and started a new life there.

In addition to receiving a good education, Anne also learned to ride a horse, use a musket, etc. As long as his daughter liked something, her father would satisfy her.

She was beautiful and had a bad temper. Few people dared to provoke her. It is said that she once knocked out a man who had bad intentions towards her.

After her mother died, Anne had to run the family business herself, and her relationship with her father became increasingly tense. Her father even planned to interfere in her marriage, so Anne ran away from home.

It is unknown what she experienced in the middle. In short, she could have become a "princess", but she ended up going to Nassau and became a "pirate woman" in the "Pirate Republic".

There is a saying in Zuo Zhuan: If the punishment is unknown, then the power is unpredictable.

In Chapter 6 of Volume 22 of "Collection of Doctrines", a traditional principle of Roman law is recorded, that is, "ignorance of the law cannot be used as an excuse".

At first, Bellamy thought that it was illegal to attack the Spanish treasure ship that had encountered a shipwreck like other pirates.

For example, a farmer was transporting oranges in a horse-drawn carriage. The carriage overturned and the oranges were scattered all over the ground. At this time, passers-by not only did not come forward to help, but also picked up the farmer's oranges.

Or in western movies, the robbers rode horses, chased the train, and threw sacks of banknotes from the carriage.

The "banknotes" in those western movies are likely to be vouchers issued by the "Wildcat Bank", which were money before the bank went bankrupt.

Robbing the Spanish treasure ship is no longer the same as robbing a private bank or a money transporter.

The British privateers robbed the Spanish treasury. How could the relationship between Britain and Spain be good enough to trade?

Pomona still remembered that a wizard had robbed the gold in the London Mint before. There were not many gold bars, and they were originally used to mint commemorative coins. Moreover, the currency in Britain was paper money, and metal coins were not used much.

In other words, Bellamy might have had some sense, even though pirates would be hanged if caught.

But the silversmith was different. He melted the silver coins and cast them into silverware. Who could prove that they were originally Spanish silver coins?

The prerequisite for legal privateering is a charter issued by the country. Piracy during the War of Spanish Succession was backed by England. The voyage funded by a silversmith was essentially privateering, but did he have the ability?

Under the temptation of huge benefits, people's minds will become "very flexible".

Such as earthquakes, lightning strikes, storms, etc. are all force majeure, but more importantly, the Spanish rulers changed at this time, from Habsburg to Bourbon.

The price of peace was that Spain lost many overseas colonies, and the Spanish relied entirely on the French navy, which was difficult to deal with the English and Dutch fleets.

I don’t know where these treasures are, but there must not be many people guarding them. Most of them have sunk to the bottom of the sea.

Assuming that the "witches" who participated in the Salem trials knew about the writ of habeas corpus, they might not be just meat on the chopping board, ready to be slaughtered.

Can a citizen refuse a court summons?

Because I don’t know, I feel that its power is endless, and the court summons must go.

Of course, the court can issue an arrest warrant, but you can refuse if you have legitimate reasons, such as you are being summoned by another court.

As for the "no defense of ignorance of the law" appearing in the imperial era, it can be divided into errors of law and errors of fact...

She heard footsteps and looked up to find an Italian man walking towards her room with a pile of drawings. Mary, the new maid, couldn't stop him.

"Madam...you...are you looking for a map of Milan?" the Italian said out of breath.

"Who are you?" she asked in surprise.

"I...I am the designer, Antolini, responsible for the renovation of Sforzesco Castle." Antolini said breathlessly.

"What?" she asked in disbelief.

"The people of Milan want to demolish this symbol of ancient tyranny. As you can see, this part has been demolished." Antolini said, and when he was about to spread the drawings on the table, he found that there was already a map on the table.

Georgiana lowered her head at this time and found that the magnifying glass focused the sunlight and made a hole in the map. Fortunately, it did not catch fire.

She quickly moved the magnifying glass aside. Fortunately, the burnt hole was on the high seas and would not affect the use of the map.

But the next second she was looking at the map in a trance, and after a long time it turned into a sigh. Then he put away the map to make room for the designer's drawings.