Pirate States

I remember when I was five I was interested in Alternate History. I wrote a small story about Pirates before the American Revolution forming a pirate nation in Cuba/Florida.

Is this at all a possibility.
 

Cook

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Do you mean a nation that gives safe haven to pirates, making them privateers and living of the revenue?

Probably possible, right up until the Royal Navy sails in and bombards the port and city to rubble for the impertinence.
 
More like a rebellion against Spanish Florida and Cuba, Pirates take over the rebellion and control the government.

They offer economic aid to all pirates.
 
regarding a pirate state in the Caribbean, the most likely period would be during either the ARW or the French revolutionary/Napoleonic period as this is when the major powers are distracted. Once these wars are over the pirate state has a short shelf life however

In terms of historical pirate states there are:

Knights Hospitallier
England
Barbary States
Lordship of the Isles

There are other non-state pirate powers including:

Vikings
Various west coast Irish clans
Pirate of the Caribbean (hey there were some!) :)
 
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