How To Rule the Sea: A Guide for Privateers 1500 – 1800s
    By Hank Campbell | October 12th 2010 01:52 PM | Print | E-mail | Track Comments
    The Houston Museum of Natural Science has unveiled their Real Pirates exhibition.    You can also see privateer models Tuesday through Saturday from 9 am – 4:30 pm at the Houston Maritime Museum.

    But to get you in the right piratitude, their site has a discussion on how nations without large navies got some work done against their enemies - by legalizing piracy and creating what are called privateers or privately owned ships that are willing to fight for you.

    Sometimes it takes a pirate to defeat a pirate.