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John Baptist Collins

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John Baptist Collins (died July 30, 1794) was a would-be French pirate who, with Emanuel Furtado and Augustus Palacha, attempted to seize control of the brigantine Betty bound for Boston, Massachusetts. [1]

9 relations: Boston, Cape of Good Hope, Cooper (profession), East India Company, France, Mebibyte, Money bag, Netherlands, Piracy.

Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Cape of Good Hope

The Cape of Good Hope (Kaap die Goeie Hoop, Kaap de Goede Hoop, Cabo da Boa Esperança) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa.

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Cooper (profession)

A cooper is a person trained to make wooden barrels, vats, buckets, tubs, troughs and other staved containers, from timber that was usually heated or steamed to make it pliable.

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East India Company

The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company and informally as John Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company, formed to trade with the East Indies (in present-day terms, Maritime Southeast Asia), but ended up trading mainly with Qing China and seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Mebibyte

The mebibyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

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Money bag

A money bag (moneybag, bag of money, money sack, sack of money, bag of gold, gold bag, sack of gold, etc.) is a bag (normally with a drawstring) of money (or gold) used to hold and transport coins and banknotes from/to a mint, bank, ATM, vending machine, business, or other institution.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Piracy

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable items or properties.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baptist_Collins

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