Region
Brazilian Coast
1 pirate in the codex documented as operating here.
The Brazilian coast was outside the main Caribbean theatres but became briefly important to Golden Age piracy with Bartholomew Roberts’s 1719 cruise off Bahia, in which he cut the Portuguese treasure ship Sagrada Família from a forty-two-vessel fleet at anchor. The take — some 40,000 gold moidores and a jewelled cross commissioned for the King of Portugal — was the single richest documented prize of the era and demonstrated the geographical reach of which a determined captain was capable.
