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The headquarters of the ‘Greatest Pirates’ were the British isles because the British Isles represented the unsinkable flagships commanding the majority of the best harbors of Europe where lived the richest customers for their world trade. The greatest pirates manned their ships with men from their shipyard’s country. Because the most conveniently recruited or ‘Shanghaied’ their sailors from the British Isles waterfront saloons, their operation came to be called the ‘British Empire’ though such an empire was never the democratic ambition of the British Isles people. World-around sea battling narrowed the field of contenders for world supremacy. Finally there was established amongst the greatest pirates the top or IN pirates. The IN pirates called themselves ‘sovereign’ and called all the OUT pirates ‘outlaws.’
When the North American colonists broke away from the greatest IN pirates in 1775, those British Isles-based great pirates came to America where, finding it impossible to dominate or conquer the colonists politically, they conquered their business world through financing acumen and control of the corporation shares.
