Note: George Camocke’s 1718 Proposal of a Jacobite–Pirate Alliance

Abstract

Following Marcus Rediker noting a curious link between Jacobitism and the ‘Golden Age’ of Caribbean piracy, many works in the past decade have drawn attention to a proposal by George Camocke in 1718 to ally the Jacobites in Europe with the pirates in the Bahama islands in support of the exiled Stuart monarchy.¹ The plan, given to the dowager Queen Mary of Modena and forwarded to the Pretender, King James III/VIII, envisaged pardoning the pirates and using them as the basis of a Stuart fleet in the Caribbean.

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Filed under: Atlantic | Other (Eighteenth C)
Subjects include: Pirates, Corsairs & Privateers | Strategy & Diplomacy