Pirates and People to Look Up To

A bit of a history lesson.  My family is Dutch/Canadian, but as it turns out, there's a bit of French Hugenot in there.  And guess what!  Pirates are actually connected with the French Hugenots!!  How exciting is that?!?!  By connected, I mean related. 

Remember in Pirates of the Caribbean:  At World's End, there was the Brethren?  And how it consisted of the 7 pirate lords?  


As the story goes, there actually was a council of pirates at one time in history. The Brethren of the Coast were a loose coalition of pirates and buccaneers, active in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. They had a base on the island of Tortuga, off the coast of Haiti and in the city of Port Royal on the island of Jamaica. The Brethren were originally French Huguenots and British Protestants, but their ranks were joined by other adventurers of various nationalities including Spaniards and African sailors.

How cool is that!  I always wanted to connect myself with pirates, and never mind how loose connection! This is great! 

Forever after this, I wish to be called Sarah Sparrow.  Please.

-Sarah
Don't you wish you were one too?