Octobre 1657 AD
It is trés recommendable zat ze pirates make up zeir minds once and for all.
We 'ave espied, from our forward base in Bayonne, zat ze Hollandais are very busy setting up an urban establishment in the zone of Bretagne. Zey will be dealt with inmediatement, and such encroachement on French suzerainty will be dealt with expeditiously by our fleets. Ze Dutch, alas, have forced us to do such a thing. And gain a free urban centre without ze effort of actually building and population, of coruse, which will be deducted as reparations de guerre, non?
Our admirals report zat bombardement of ze Pirates at Cutthroat Island has yielded some results, units are wounded and some of the so-called civilians (prostitutes, tavern-keepers, usurious moneylenders and zeir type) are now dead in ze confusion. Just ashore, our troops have encountered some Portuguese troops who might be attacking ze free population of Mapaca. France, protectrice of all ze free peoples, would of course rush to ze aid of zese unprotected poor pirates. Ze House of Bragança would, of course, pay up reparations in ze form of technologie, and/or peripheric urban centres, as well as reimburse His Majesté monetarily for 'is troubles.