Some pirate bands were highly democratic, electing their captains and making important decisions by vote. He managed to corner part of the fleet in the Bay of Matanzas and captured millions upon millions of guilders in gold, silver, and trade goods. In 1628, five years after he had arrived in the West Indies, Piet Hien, a Dutch trader for the West India Company, could not resist taking on the treasure fleet. The treasure galleons were slow, fat targets, very well-defended and wholly irresistible to pirates. Spanish galleons, wallowing low in the water from all the treasure taken onboard, were returning from the Carribean to Spain, where the gold would fund wars against the French, the Ottomans, and the Dutch. The centuries following the Spanish plunder of the Aztec, Inca, and Maya was the golden age of piracy. Pirates, or buccaneers, are sailors who prowl sea lanes, killing sailors, capturing ships, and looting cargo. This last appearance resembles the Pirate's unit portrait.
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