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==Warfare==
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[[File:Pyle pirates city.jpg|thumb|Howard Pyle &ndash; Buccaneers extorting tribute from the citizens of a captured city.]]

===Naval===
Buccaneers initially used small boats to attack Spanish galleons surreptitiously, often at night, and climb aboard before the alarm could be raised. Buccaneers were expert [[marksman|marksmen]] and would quickly kill the [[helmsman]] and any officers aboard. Buccaneers' reputation as cruel pirates grew to the point that, eventually, most victims would surrender, hoping they would not be killed.<ref name=pirates&privateers>{{cite web|url=http://www.cindyvallar.com/buccaneers.html|title=The Buccaneers|author=Vallar, Cindy|date=1 November 2002|work=Pirates and Privateers: The History of Maritime Piracy|format=self-published work|via=cindyvallar.com|access-date=9 January 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304115435/http://www.cindyvallar.com/buccaneers.html|archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=January 2017}}

===Land===
When buccaneers raided towns, they did not sail into port and bombard the defences, as naval forces typically did. Instead, they secretly beached their ships out of sight of their target, marched overland, and attacked the towns from the landward side, which was usually less fortified. Their raids relied mainly on surprise and speed.<ref name=pirates&privateers />{{Better source needed|date=January 2017}} The [[Sack of Campeche (1663)|sack of Campeche]] was considered the first such raid and many others that followed replicated the same techniques including the [[attack on Veracruz]] in 1683 and the [[Raid on Cartagena (1683)|raid on Cartagena]] later that same year.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}