Trevor Collins

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,

pilgrimage but you also have the grand mughal's fortune or at least a large swath of it is on these ships and so he's pissed off he knows because of the survivors that it was some english dude that was tearing up the town so he immediately goes to england and now you have two great powers sitting here going what are we going to do about this yeah

In fact, he then, in his outrage, and rightfully so, arrested several high-profile members of the English East India Company as he believed that they themselves were conspiring against him.

As you know, maybe even from Pirates of the Caribbean, the East India Company was a trading company moving spice and tea and other goods, and they themselves were essentially an empire to their own right in the area.

This immediately spurred on the political intrigue and England's like, we got to figure this out.