Cocks Crow: Adventurer, Pirate, Soldier, 17c Rogue

It was a time of discontent throughout Europe. The Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands were still at war with the ruling Spanish Habsburgs. The French, under the orders of Cardinal Richelieu, formed an alliance with the Dutch. In Portugal, there was similar discontent against the ruling Habsburgs. They wanted their own monarchy restored after sixty years. Catalonia wanted to be Spanish, eastern Spain wanted independence. In England, the people, lead by disaffected Parliamentarians, who h...