Trevor Collins

This fleet was going to be ferrying Muslim pilgrims that were returning from their journey to Mecca, as well as several, and I mean several, loot-filled vessels filled to the brim with treasure.

Now, the treasure that filled these ships was said to be owned by the Grand Mughal of India.

The Grand Mughal is considered the head of the Mughal Empire in India, and they reigned from, I believe, the early 1500s up through the mid, maybe early 1800s.

So very much in the timeframe that we're talking about now, and hence why they are there.

Now, of course, after hearing of this fleet, every set sail, he didn't waste any time.

He's like, we got to shoot up north now, essentially circumnavigating almost all of Africa, getting to them in time.

Now, this would be around August of 1695.

This is when he's sailing up there and he's preparing now to ambush the Mughal crew.

Now, in preparations for this attack, the Fancy partnered with several additional pirate ships in the area in order to carry out this mission.

This included a different ship named the Amity, which was an American ship led by Thomas Two, who was another infamous buccaneer.

Just a few days after they reached the Red Sea, they spotted the target, which was a 25-ship Mughal convoy in the open water.

So you see on the horizon like a line of 25 ships.

It's pretty obvious them's the people.

We're going for them.

How do you rope them in?

That's a good question.

So I will say to be to be clear, 25 ships were in the Mughal convoy.

25 ship fleet is the target.

The pirate fleet.

We don't know how many ships were in that fleet, but we do know, at least on record, there was about 500 men.