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15 décembre 2009
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Rhys Richards, « The Pirates At Tahiti in 1822: Two Unpublished Letters by Samuel Henry », Journal de la société des océanistes, ID : 10.4000/jso.5967
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In June 1822 at Tubuai, a tiny 40 ton brig captured a 300 ton brig of war armed with twenty cannons. The captured brig was formerly part of Lord Cochrane’s squadron of patriots fighting the Spanish for the independence of Chile and Peru (see illustration). The losing captain, Henry Good, was long experienced in war before he turned to piracy. The victorious captain, Samuel Henry, was only 22 years old, totally inexperienced in war, and the son of Rev. William Henry, an Irish lms missionary at...