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TIL that in 1684 Henry Morgan the "privateer" successfully sued the publishers of the books on piracy in the Caribbean for libel; as a result, the description of Morgan using nuns and monks as human shields were purged from subsequent British editions of "History of the Buccaneers of America"

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