Editing Piracy (section)

=== Canary Islands ===
[[File:La Gomera church M.jpg|thumb|250px|Mural representing the attack of [[Charles Windon]] to [[San Sebastián de La Gomera]] (1743)]]
Due to the strategic situation of this Spanish archipelago as a crossroads of maritime routes and commercial bridge between Europe, Africa and [[Americas|America]],<ref name=A>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gevic.net/info/contenidos/mostrar_contenidos.php?idcat=1&idcap=187&idcon=675|title=La piratería – Historia – (GEVIC) Gran Enciclopedia Virtual Islas Canarias|website=www.gevic.net|access-date=August 3, 2018|archive-date=March 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303213748/http://www.gevic.net/info/contenidos/mostrar_contenidos.php?idcat=1&idcap=187&idcon=675|url-status=live}}</ref> this was one of the places on the planet with the greatest pirate presence.

In the [[Canary Islands]], the following stand out: the attacks and continuous looting of [[Barbary pirates|Berber]], English, French and Dutch corsairs sometimes successful and often a failure;<ref name=A/> and on the other hand, the presence of pirates and corsairs from this archipelago, who made their incursions into the [[Caribbean]]. Pirates and corsairs such as [[François Le Clerc]], [[Jacques de Sores]], [[Francis Drake]] defeat in [[Gran Canaria]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gran-canaria-info.com/en/content/history/sir-francis-drake-s-epic-failure-at-las-palmas |title=The Gran Canaria Mistake That Cost Sir Francis Drake His Life |work=Gran-Canaria-Info.com |access-date=June 23, 2021 |archive-date=May 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509034136/https://gran-canaria-info.com/en/content/history/sir-francis-drake-s-epic-failure-at-las-palmas |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Pieter van der Does]], [[Murat Reis the Elder|Murat Reis]] and [[Horacio Nelson]] attacked the islands and was defeated in the [[Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1797)]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://etenerifeholidays.co.uk/tenerife-island/history/the-defeat-of-nelson-at-the-battle-of-santa-cruz-de-tenerife-1797|title=The Defeat of Nelson at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife 1797|first=Peter|last=Allan|website=etenerifeholidays.co.uk|access-date=October 6, 2020|archive-date=November 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112023241/https://etenerifeholidays.co.uk/tenerife-island/history/the-defeat-of-nelson-at-the-battle-of-santa-cruz-de-tenerife-1797|url-status=live}}</ref> Among those born in the archipelago stands out above all [[Amaro Pargo]], whom the monarch [[Felipe V of Spain]] frequently benefited in his commercial incursions and corsairs.<ref name="ColFar">{{cite news|last = Fariña González|first = Manuel|title = La evolución de una fortuna indiana: D. Amaro Rodríguez Felipe (Amaro Pargo).|access-date = June 10, 2016|url = http://mdc.ulpgc.es/cdm/ref/collection/coloquios/id/1321|archive-date = March 4, 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304001809/http://mdc.ulpgc.es/cdm/ref/collection/coloquios/id/1321|url-status = dead}}</ref><ref name="AmaroHeroe">{{cite book | title=Amaro Pargo: documentos de una vida, I. Héroe y forrajido | date=2017 | publisher=Ediciones Idea | isbn=978-8416759811 | pages=520 | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321110986 | access-date=March 20, 2018 | archive-date=March 17, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210317143401/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321110986_Amaro_Pargo_documentos_de_una_vida_I_Heroe_y_forajido | url-status=live }}</ref>