![]() Particularly helpful was a successful Basque pirate, Michel de Basco, who after hearing of L’Olonnais plot offered to team up providing he could captain the land forces. The French buccaneer sent out a casting call of sorts and managed to recruit over 400 men for the enterprise. With this ship as a prize, he returned to Tortuga and began preparations to sack the wealthy town of Maracaibo and the surrounding countryside. He then roamed from port to port until eventually, he took a ship loaded with plate. L’Olonnais now had a warship, but he had little in the way of provisions. Alexandre Exquemelin notes in his 17th-century history of the Buccaneers (he was one himself) that Tortuga was a “common refuge of all sorts of wickedness, and the seminary, as it were, of pirates and thieves.” Tortuga itself was a pirate and privateer haven. The Buccaneers also referred to themselves as “brethren of the coast.” Eventually, this term was applied to the privateers themselves. ![]() The name derived from the little huts, called boucanes that they used to make their meat. By the mid-1650s he was free, living among the buccaneers of Hispaniola, and called François l'Olonnais, which meant the “man from Olonne.” This was sometimes just spelled as Lolonois.īuccaneers were originally hunters who roamed the wilds of Hispaniola and on the island of Tortuga to the north of Hispaniola who caught wild cattle and boar. ![]() There is very little known about his early life except that as a child he was sent to the Caribbean as an indentured servant. ![]() Jean David-Nau was born in the small town of Les Sables d’Olonne in Bas-Poitou on the west coast of France sometime around the years 1630 to 1635. ![]()
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