First published in 1724, Captain Charles Johnson’s 'A General History of Pirates' is the most famous, and most influential, book about pirates ever written, becoming the forerunner of the real-life criminal biography genre and inspiring the likes of Defoe’s 'Moll Flanders'.

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Césarion joined Margrave Albert’s Cuirassiers Regiment(K.11) in 1724, at the age of 26.

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14 January 1724, Philip V of Spain, grandson of Louis XIV, abdicates in favour of his oldest son, the seventeen-year-old Louis. Louis I died seven months later and his reign is one of the shortest in history.

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