The End of Piracy?

[al Roumi]

Pirates of the Barbary states... AFAIK the states were really a loose bag of pretty much un-goverened city states, held by pirate leaders/strongmen. Spain, Genoa and other North Mediteranean states fought naval and expeditionary land wars with them from the 1600s onwards, to little lasting effect you might say.

Incidentaly, anyone else find it funny that the caribean pirates recruit Galleons and Fluyts? These large trading vessels were the very ships they preyed upon! Pirates used sloops and brigs as a rule... A galleon would be the worst kind of ship to use for piracy -ponderous and slow as they are.