Trevor Collins

You're wasting man time looking at these flags when you should be hoisting sails or whatever.

Yeah, 100%.

So the Fancy is obviously fast enough.

This is the center of the fleet and it captures or catches up to the lumbering escort ship called the Fath Mamamadi.

Once it caught up to the Mamamadi, it had a brief battle before the lumbering ship surrendered.

They said, all right, fine, listen, insurance, whatever, our lives.

An estimated 50,000 British pounds worth of gold and silver were acquired from this vessel.

Not to be confused with like weight pounds, but like British sterling pounds.

So $50,000 in the late 1600s, big fortune.

Not even a small fortune, a decent fortune.

Truly.

And they could turn away at this point, but they don't.

So the fancy bolstered by this success turns their fleet to resume hunting for the rest of the convoy.

And by September 7th, only three vessels remained of the original pirate fancy fleet.

So we don't know where they started, but we do know by fact on history, they have three vessels now.

And around this time is when they finally caught up to the flagship of the Grand Mughal fleet, the Ganj-e-Siwai.

Now, unlike the Fath Mamamadi, which was poorly protected, which made for easy pickings, they got these $50,000 in gold and silver,

The fancy came up to a ship that was truly the opposite.

This was a deeply formidable foe.

The Ganji Siwa was armed with several dozen cannons and over 400 riflemen just on that one boat.