Raid des Corsaires 2009

Modern Corsairs: Pim, Mischa, Bastian and Mitch at Saint Malo
Some History regarding this Corsaire Raid held at Saint Malo, home town of Pierrick Contin. In America one of the most Famous Corsairs was French-Argentine Hipolito Bouchard, which trip around the World had epic proportions, as an example Bouchard once raised the Argentine flag on Monterrey, California! declaring that land for the Argentine goverment, sadly he continued his Corsair raid to Hawaii and left the beautiful Cal to Spanish-Mexican locals that after “cede” it to the North Americans…
You guys in USA didn´t know about our Argie flag flaming at Cal for sure!

Corsairs were French privateers from the north-western French port of Saint-Malo is a walled seaport city in Brittany in northwestern France on the English Channel. Since the corsairs gained a swashbuckling reputation, the word corsair is also used generically as a more romantic or flamboyant version of the word “privateer”
A privateer was a private warship authorized by a country’s government by letters of marque to attack foreign shipping. Strictly, a privateer was only entitled by its state to attack and rob enemy vessels during wartime….
, or even of the word pirate. The barbary pirates of north Africa were sometimes called “Turkish corsairs”. The name “corsair” derives from the commissioning document received from the king, the Lettre de Course (“racing letter” or “racing commission”).