Qualla: James Plaintain https://qualla.com/james-plaintain en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: James Plaintain https://qualla.com/james-plaintain James Plaintain: Introduction https://qualla.com/james-plaintain/ He called himself the King of Ranter Bay, and for a few violent years in the 1720s, on a stretch of Madagascar's northeast coast, the title was no joke. James Plantain was an English pirate, born in Jamaica, who came to the island the way most of his trade did - with a hold full of stolen gold and nowhere left to spend it. Where other pirates buried their loot and drifted back to sea, Plantain stayed. He poured his fortune into guns and alliances, raised a settlement near what is now the village of Rantabe, and set out to rule the people around him. It is one of the strangest careers of piracy's golden age: a robber who tried to become a monarch.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/m/j/5/q/james-plaintain-wp/mj5q-james-plaintain-king-of-ranter-bay.mp3 0:06 3 full James Plaintain: A War Over a Bride https://qualla.com/james-plaintain/ His undoing began, by some accounts, with a marriage demand. Plantain insisted that a neighboring king hand over his granddaughter to be his wife. The king refused. What followed was a spiral of wars and counter-raids that consumed the coast, and from which Plantain - better arme...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/m/j/5/q/james-plaintain-wp/mj5q-james-plaintain-a-war-over-a-bride.mp3 0:06 4 full James Plaintain: Exit to India https://qualla.com/james-plaintain/ In the end, Plantain made too many enemies even for a man with the most guns on the coast. In 1728 he gathered up his favored wife and abandoned the kingdom he had built, sailing for India. There he reinvented himself yet again, taking service in the Maratha Navy under the formid...

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