Editing Piracy (section)

===Madagascar===
[[File:Pirates Cemetery Ile Ste Marie Madagascar.jpg|thumb|The cemetery of past pirates at Île Ste-Marie (St. Mary's Island)]]
At one point, there were nearly 1,000 pirates located in Madagascar.<ref>Gemma Pitcher, Patricia C. Wright. " ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=m2eLhe7CpMMC&pg=PA178 Madagascar & Comoros] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226081051/https://books.google.com/books?id=m2eLhe7CpMMC&pg=PA178 |date=December 26, 2022 }} ''" p. 178.</ref> [[Île Sainte-Marie]] was a popular base for pirates throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. The most famous [[pirate utopia]] is that of the probably fictional Captain Misson and his pirate crew, who allegedly founded the free colony of [[Libertatia]] in northern Madagascar in the late 17th century, until it was destroyed in a surprise attack by the island natives in 1694.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=869187%7ctitle=Libertatia|title=Libertatia|work=everything2.com|access-date=November 15, 2015|archive-date=July 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170710091804/https://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=869187%7ctitle=Libertatia|url-status=live}}</ref>