When people think about pirates they often think of a captain with a eye patch, peg leg and hook for a hand. This of course being the result of having been through many battles and fighting throughout the years. Most pirates are know for raiding other ships and near by sea villages. Going from place to place or ambushing ships in a particular area of the seas. This is one reason why people have pirate parties today and often send out pirate map invitations.

Pirates have been roaming the seas for thousands of years to the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians. Then there are the Vikings and the Danes who plundered the northern countries until the pirates of the Americas. Pirates were ruff and tumble characters who had no laws and did what they wanted to do. Its ironic that today people celebrate these thugs and thieves of yester year with pirate parities sending out pirate party invitations.

Pirates in the last few hundred years that have been romanticized from Hollywood were the results of being buccaneers in the service of their respective governments and then once these governments no longer needed them they turned pirate as they had nothing left to do and were used to living this style of life in the other side of the law. They would raid new towns in the new world and drive the Spanish nuts. Although some pirates were rich and would hide their treasures with pirate treasure map invitations, most were poor. Their were a handful of famous pirates, much like outlaws of the west. Even today there are pirates all over the world. Although most people don’t think of them as pirates because they are not limited to boats anymore. Many modern gangs are the pirates of today.

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