Trevor Collins

I kind of hinted at this before, but every resource we looked at did say, yes, this is what it was worth back then.

But in today's estimates, it's worth somewhere between, in U.S.

currency, $80 to $123 million.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's Splitsville.

That's gone with the wind right there.

But here's the thing.

600,000 British pounds in the late 1600s.

I'm thinking, why isn't that worth closer to something like a billion today?

That's, it's wild.

True.

A lot of that inflation comes from the 20th century for what it's worth.

Yeah, so if you transferred 60,000 British pounds from the 1890s, it would still be in the millions.

So it's like, that gives you an idea.

But anyway, after the raid, as you kind of astutely guessed at, the group divided up the profits and then set sail for the Bahamas, a place that was friendly to the pirates.

And many of them settled in New Providence, which is today one of the most populous islands in the Bahamas.

Otherwise, the pirates seemingly were kicking back, relaxing with their new fortunes,

But of course, they couldn't do this for long because English authorities were dealing with the political tensions and repercussions following the raid.

As you can imagine, the owner of this fleet, the leader of the Mughal Empire, the Grand Mughal, Aurangzeb, who was, of course, outraged by this attack.

Not only do you have Muslim pilgrims moving back from a religious place,