| Great Britain | |
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| Continent | Europe |
| Location | North Atlantic Ocean |
| Population | English citizens
Scottish citizens |
| Affiliation | British Empire |
Great Britain is an island in Northwest Europe. It is comprised of the states England and Scotland, who joined together to form the country of Great Britain after the Acts of Union.
Geography[]
Great Britain is an island off the coast of Northwest Europe. The North Channel, Irish Sea, St. George's Channel and the Celtic Sea separate the island from Ireland to the west. The English Channel separates the island from Continental Europe, narrowing to a distance of 21 miles at the Straits of Dover.
The state of England covers the bulk of the southern two thirds of the island, and Wales is located on the western coast. Scotland occupies the northern third of the island. There are over a thousand islands that form the archipelago of the British Isles.
People[]
The Scottish and Welsh are primarily descended from Celtic tribes, while the English are mostly descended from two Germanic tribes that migrated to England following the fall of the Roman Empire, collectively known as the Anglo-Saxons.
History[]
Background[]
England and Scotland had shared the same monarch since 1603, when James VI (of Scotland) and I (of England) inherited the throne from his first cousin Queen Elizabeth. However, the two remained separate countries with separate legislatures, but shared the same monarch.
During the reign of Queen Anne, the Acts of Union brought England and Scotland “United into One Kingdom by Name of Great Britain.”
Season One[]
Eleanor Guthrie expresses her fears to Max that Mr. Scott is waiting downstairs with the news that the British have arrived and they have to flee Nassau. After that, she speculates that they would blockade the island and choke off trade. A few crews would resist, but would not last long without the support of Richard Guthrie, Eleanor’s father. Fort Nassau would then be abandoned and British soldiers would storm the beach, and after the smoke clears Richard would arrive with his commission naming him Governor of New Providence Island.
Season Two[]
Flint and Benjamin Hornigold discuss their plan to attack Fort Nassau to oust Charles Vane. Flint asks him how long it would take to rebuild and Hornigold replies ten weeks or so, calling it a relatively short window. Flint reminds him that it’s a short window that coincides with a British warship, His Majesty’s Ship the Scarborough, sitting at anchor 40 miles from Nassau in Harbour Island.
After Hornigold loses the election over the combined crew, he prepares to flee Nassau. He confides in Dufresne that he’s certain the British Empire will reclaim Nassau soon, and when that day comes, it won’t be a good day to be a pirate in Nassau. Dufresne then says that is unless that they had something to offer them. Hornigold is shocked and asks what they could offer the British Navy to make them forget that the two of them are pirates. Dufresne says not what, but who. The two then lead eight other men in kidnapping Eleanor Guthrie and bringing her to Captain Hume on Harbour Island.
Season Three[]
While investigating the abandoned Straight Arrow, John Silver spots a ship flying British colors sailing towards them. As they try to flee, Flint realizes that it isn’t a Royal Navy ship, but a hunter. It is then revealed that it is Benjamin Hornigold, now a privateer in the service of the Crown.
When they receive the news that Woodes Rogers is coming to install himself as governor in Nassau with a fleet of eight ships, Jack Rackham leads the pirate captains in coming up with a battle plan. Throckmorton is aghast at a plan that involves them combining their forces with only six guns supporting them from the fort in order to frighten the British Navy into retreat.
After making landfall at the Maroon Island, Flint warns Silver that they have to inform the men to prepare to return to an embattled Nassau and that they would have to resist a British incursion.
After most of the pirates surrender to Woodes Rogers after he offers a Royal Pardon and a £10,000 bounty on the head of Charles Vane, the crew of the Colonial Dawn hold out in the fort with captains Vane and Rackham. However, they vote to surrender and expel Vane from the fort, hoping that this would convince the British commander to allow them to keep possession of the fort and the gold.
After Featherstone gets his Royal Pardon, he remarks “I am once again a citizen of the British Empire.” On the pardon certificate, it states that King George is the King of Great Britain.
Flint tries to convince his Maroon captors to enter into an alliance with his crew and retake Nassau. The Maroon Queen responds that Governor Rogers holds Nassau Town with a full company of British Regulars, the harbor with a small navy and the street with his pardons. Flint replies that he has an inoperative fort and is responsible for an administrative nightmare. The Maroon Queen says that even if they could dislodge the British from Nassau, she couldn’t hope to hold it with her numbers. Flint replies that for every man in her camp, there are thousands in the West Indies enslaved or indentured who will rise up.
After capturing a Spanish Merchant Ship, Edward Teach and Vane investigate a trove of information being transported by a Spanish Intelligence Officer of the Casa de Contratacion. They find a dossier on Woodes Rogers, and Ellers asks how they already have so much information on him. Teach replies the same way they get their information on all the British Governors in the Americas- they have a spy in his office.
Eleanor Guthrie and Woodes Rogers discuss the consequences of failing to return the cache of gems, which would result in a Spanish invasion being launched from Havana to raze Nassau to the ground. Eleanor believes that if it came to that, they could make a stand. Rogers says that if the result of their efforts in Nassau is a Spanish attack on British forces, something that threatens to drag the empire into war, Rogers will be called back to London and face a debtor’s prison, while Eleanor’s capital sentence would be reinserted.
Charles Vane tells Flint about the Spanish information trove he read, and says that it contained the key to defeating British forces in Nassau- Jack Rackham’s cache of gems, the last portion of the Urca treasure that Rogers needs to send to Havana.
Flint tells the Maroon Queen that his plan is to steal the cache and use it to lure Rogers into committing all of his forces to an undesirable battlefield, the Maroon Island. Kofi is incredulous that Flint wants to lure the British Navy to their home.
At the Battle of the Maroon Island, Jack Rackham waits with the Walrus behind a promontory waiting to surprise Rogers’ fleet. However, a second fleet of six ships flying British colors is spotted to the south, but Jack realizes that it is the Pirate Fleet. He meets with Teach, and tells him that Flint is on the beach taking fire from “half the British Navy.” Teach is surprised, and Jack explains that the entirety of Rogers’ fleet is in play and they have a chance to deal him a devastating blow. They then discuss the execution of Charles Vane, and Jack remarks that while British law may have sentenced him, they both know Eleanor Guthrie was responsible.
Flint remarks to John Silver that while he may worry that he’ll inevitably be the end of Flint, Flint has survived starvation, a tempest, jealous captains, mutinous crews, angry lords, a queen, a king, and the “goddamn British Navy.”
Season Four[]
After the Invasion of Nassau ends disastrously, Madi asks Flint if their chance to strike a blow that would shake the very foundation of the British Empire has past.
After the Battle of the Underhill Estate, the Pirate Resistance takes over the plantation. Billy Bones reports that Ben Gunn and his squad found a warehouse filled to the brim with salt pork and corn, and remarks that they might be better supplied than the British in Nassau with the resources of the estate at their disposal.
Billy Bones points out to John Silver that Flint’s plan to lead them in a massive slave revolt in a war against the British Empire is ludicrous.
After defeating Edward Teach, Woodes Rogers returns aboard Teach’s ship, the Revenge. As he sails into the harbor not flying a banner, and then he raises his personal banner and British colors.
John Silver informs Billy Bones that as part of a deal with the British, Captain Flint surrendered himself as collateral, and Eleanor Rogers promises to leave the island with all of her husband’s forces upon receipt of the cache of gems.
Woodes Rogers travels to Havana to enlist the aid of Governor Raja, despite the fact that their empires are at war. Rogers tells Mrs. Hudson if the British Empire won’t help them get rid of the pirates, maybe the Spanish Empire will.
First Mate Molin fears that the Spanish will open fire on them, but Rogers promises that they won’t. Molin asks why, and Rogers answers that they will want to know why the most recognizable British governor in the Americas is sailing a man of war into their port requesting parlay.
Flint remarks to Eleanor that she once saw the benefits of a Nassau free from British rule, and wonders if it would be strange that she do so again.
Billy Bones tells Madi that if Flint and Silver prevail and fight their way through the British soldiers aboard the Eurydice, they will find that their victory is meaningless, threatening to kill her. He does not end up doing so, however.