Buccaneer Campaigns

The Buccaneers are very romanticized. They are so romanticized that the amazing true reality about them is obscure and forgotten. The Buccaneers are often mistakenly associated with the Caribbean "Golden Age of Piracy",  even thou that took place c.100 years latter (although geographically they operated approximately the same area). They originated from rouge sailors living in the Caribbean islands. The sailors got their name "Buccaneer" because they would smoke Cow or Pig meat over the fire. They were driven off their islands by the Spanish, so they started raiding Spanish towns in revenge. The Buccaneers got more organized as English and the France started funding them like the US would fund the Mujahedin against the Soviets in the modern world. Also like the Americans and the Mujahedin, the Buccaneers wiggled out of the control of the Franco-English backers. A common misconception is that the Buccaneers commonly raided ships. In reality, they preferred to raid towns because they would have to give several of their loot to England and France if they raided ships. Several Buccaneers leaders (most famously Henry Morgan) were actually legendary for their amazing military skills. Buccaneer Bands under Morgan and other leaders would raid even heavily armed Spanish forts with the style similar to modern military black ops commandos. One incident, Morgan took a bunch of Monks and Nuns hostage, and forced them to be human shields against the Catholic Spanish gunners. This took advantage of religious fervor of the Spanish Catholics (I don't know the religion of the Buccaneers, but they most likely didn't care of that matter). The Buccaneers were legendary for their cruelty. One Buccaneer cut out the heart of one prisoner and stuffed it in a mouth of another. All in all, they left a lasting (albert misunderstood) impact on popular culture.