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Some of the most bloodthirsty pirates in the world were brought to justice and held over for trial in Scotland, England and the United States . These trials detail their dastardly deeds with startling testimony of those who were there and lived to be able to testify in person. What happened to the Jane of Gibraltar?
Learn how pirates repainted a ship at sea, killed the captain and cook and set a fire in the hold with the rest of the crew to suffocate, all for the purpose of taking over the ship and a valuable cargo of silver dollars and gold.
Pirates plundered other ships on the high seas while on the brig Crawford a cunning act of piracy was perpetrated by a veteran pirate leader. He slit his own throat to escape justice while three Spaniards he recruited stood trial with the esteemed Chief Justice John Marshall presiding over the federal court in Richmond, Virginia in 1827, a rare trial. Follow the action in a blow-by blow description of the murder and mayhem right into the courtroom.
Over 50,000 people attended one execution of pirates in England making one wonder if anyone was fortunate enough to have the fish and chips concession that day! There are no magic scenes out of sparkling Caribbean waters with Captain Jack Sparrow dueling with a devil, but the genuine evil related in these authentic pirate trials will certainly make your timbers shiver!
Learn how pirates repainted a ship at sea, killed the captain and cook and set a fire in the hold with the rest of the crew to suffocate, all for the purpose of taking over the ship and a valuable cargo of silver dollars and gold.
Pirates plundered other ships on the high seas while on the brig Crawford a cunning act of piracy was perpetrated by a veteran pirate leader. He slit his own throat to escape justice while three Spaniards he recruited stood trial with the esteemed Chief Justice John Marshall presiding over the federal court in Richmond, Virginia in 1827, a rare trial. Follow the action in a blow-by blow description of the murder and mayhem right into the courtroom.
Over 50,000 people attended one execution of pirates in England making one wonder if anyone was fortunate enough to have the fish and chips concession that day! There are no magic scenes out of sparkling Caribbean waters with Captain Jack Sparrow dueling with a devil, but the genuine evil related in these authentic pirate trials will certainly make your timbers shiver!
From The Author
Ho, Ho, Ho and a Bottle of Rum! CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL SITS ON CASE OF MURDER & PIRACY The fourth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, nominated by President John Adams in the final months of his presidency following his defeat for reelection to Thomas Jefferson, Marshall’s leadership on the court established the court as an equal branch of government to the Executive and Congress. He became the longest-serving Chief Justice, serving 34 years from 1801 to 1835 when he died at the age of 79.
Chief Justice Marshall authored landmark decisions on the court (Marbury v Madison) involving the Court’s authority to expound constitutional law and exercise Judicial Review and to declare laws made by Congress unconstitutional, thereby holding the Constitution as the law of the land; (McCullough v Maryland) the authority of the federal government to establish a national bank and (Gibbons v Ogden) to regulate interstate commerce. Those cases were decided prior to Chief Justice Marshall sitting on the trial of the Three Spaniards charged with Piracy and Murder in the matter of the Brig Crawford held in July of 1827.
One of Chief Justice Marshall’s rulings in the Maryland case reverberates today in political discourse: Letting Maryland tax the bank would give one state “the power to destroy” it. That wasn’t what the American people intended, Marshall says, when they made the Constitution “supreme.”
Chief Justice Marshall authored landmark decisions on the court (Marbury v Madison) involving the Court’s authority to expound constitutional law and exercise Judicial Review and to declare laws made by Congress unconstitutional, thereby holding the Constitution as the law of the land; (McCullough v Maryland) the authority of the federal government to establish a national bank and (Gibbons v Ogden) to regulate interstate commerce. Those cases were decided prior to Chief Justice Marshall sitting on the trial of the Three Spaniards charged with Piracy and Murder in the matter of the Brig Crawford held in July of 1827.
One of Chief Justice Marshall’s rulings in the Maryland case reverberates today in political discourse: Letting Maryland tax the bank would give one state “the power to destroy” it. That wasn’t what the American people intended, Marshall says, when they made the Constitution “supreme.”
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