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Finding the Treasure in India Just Got Easier

Feb 27th, 2008 | By | Category: International
It was perhaps the greatest treasure ever to fall into the hands of pirates… In the spring of 1721, a French corsair named Olivier Levasseur beat a retreat from the Malabar Coast of India and sailed west to Madagascar. Levasseur was known as “La Buse,” or “the Buzzard.” He actually wore ...read more