Show le grand exploit of pie bierre ria L la t grand PIERRE LE LB GRAD in history as one pirate who knew when to stop lie ile cap captured aured one rich prize by an exploit so daring la in conception and in execution ns as to stand in a class by itself then he retired and never again went a but tits his suc cess proved the inspiration for ahls fellow buccaneers bucca of t the lie west cesi indies and the long reign of piracy in antho the seventeenth century began le lc grand was wag a norman who settled on tortuga island and became known by the english as peter the great ile he had been on an acco account for a long but ns ni a pirate lie he lind had been a failure finally almost starving and in despair he camo came in sight of it a grent great spanish fleet and seeing one ship the biggest of nit all ing lagging somewhat in the rear lie he immedi abely conceived a daring scheme swearing ills his men to fight to death and never surrender and ordering one of them to bore a hole bole in the boat so 30 it would want sink quickly thus thug burning ills bridges behind him le grand pushed ils ills little vessel alongside tile the 1 big ninn nian of war just as night was falling in n moment le grands pirates had swarmed over the side armed only with fit and cutlasses cut lasses killed tile the and pierre ran down int into the cabin where lie ho found the spanish iAsh playing earls carls jesus bless I the as tont shed spaniard rd are these devils or dr what arc nt fc they lo le grand quickly s assured mm im that they were not devils but ties pertile men who would L kill 1111 na i quickly and willingly ns as they would eat eai ond and drink arink and demanded the sur suri i render of the ship the admiral real izod the futility of resl slun co and sur rendered le grand did not waste maste any anny time t in looting the ship nor in allowing ills his men inen to get out of hund hand front from liquor lie at once ewt hit his prisoners ashore and set sail for arance where lie he lived f tile hie rest of his life in n peace yord of ills exploit spread like wild lire among tile the buccaneers bucca of tortuga and Hi they oft loft their work of klitin killing and drying beef front from which i i they derived the narrie name bocc buccaneer anderli ane erli and set out to emulate le e grand in attacking spanish ships no boat 4 was vlas too small in which to make the tha i attempt to capt capture tire any size alz ship and thus le grands one ne exploit eppli it led to tn innumerable others which anda the pirates of the west indies reous tor for many years yeam I 1 |