... My only God is liberty; My law is might, the wind my mark; My country, is the sea. "Pirate's song" Jos © de Espronceda (Spanish poet 1808-1842) PIRATES and BUCCANEERS In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the rise and death of piracy left for the history legends of fabulous treasures and great deeds. Pirates and buccaneers will be remembered as the "kings of the sea." Geographically mainly operated in the Caribbean, the trade route between America and Europe While pirates robbed merchant ships and assaulted coastal cities to enrich, the buccaneers were engaged in smuggling, catching small merchant and the slave trade. The Buccaneer model may have been one of those vessels used for their misdeeds. With this model boat will discover one of the darkest parts of naval history, enjoying his hobby to modeling.