almirantazgo

Updated: May 21, 2025

In 1666 the Consejo de Almirantazgo of Flanders had offered the government to send its frigates to the Indies to pursue and punish the buccaneers, and protect the coasts of Spanish America; and in 1669 similar proposals were made by the "armadores" or owners of corsairing vessels in the seaport towns of Biscay.

Clarence Henry Haring - The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century