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I cant believe it😱😱Martin Campbell- the Martin Campbell !!!!! Asked me to write and send him a treatment!

Elizabeth I saw the solution to her problems. Her people's future lay on the sea. There, she could find work for her idle subjects while also delivering the goods England needed.

All of their maritime knowledge had been obtained by and stolen from other countries. For centuries the English stole not only ships and wealth from their competition but also their most valuable belongings. They stole their naval maps, their descriptions of maritime routes, their naval techniques and the problems which had encountered on certain...

The first reader of Liberum 1580 in English version!!

This week my dear adventurers is the turn of FRANCIS DRAKE. Hero in England, and scourge of Spain, Sir Francis Drake was probably the most powerful and resourceful pirate in history.

Perhaps Captain Jack Sparrow dominates the oceans of fame with "Pirates of the Caribbean," but long before the appearance of this famous fictional character, there were a number of buccaneers, corsairs and scoundrels who controlled the seven seas.

For 200 years England weakened to Spain, without declaring the war. After the disaster of the attempt to invade England with the Great Navy, Great Britain felt safe. With the corsairs expeditions was enriched, while avoided that the Gold arrived at the coffers of the Spanish Crown. England becoming more and more rich, and Spain increasingly with...

The majority of ships designed their own flags to distinguish themselves from other ships. Except for Sam Bellamy. He used the famous black flag known as the "Jolly Roger". It was a symbol known to all those on the high seas, the ominous symbol of imminent attack.

Named after its distinctive shape Turtle Island was positioned so strategically it quickly became a hideout for pirates and their loot.

The famous "Peso de a ocho", or "Piece of Eight" was a silver coin also known as "The Spanish Dollar," and had a value of eight reales. It was coined by the Spanish Empire after the monetary reform in 1497 which originally established the Spanish Real. Thanks to its wide usage across the Americas, the Far East and Europe in...