Then violence erupts and suddenly the whole ship is endangered by a master criminal whose intention is not a simple hijacking and ransoming of the wealthy hostages on board.
Shaler took out $75,000 in specie and then divested the packet after ransoming her for $8000.
Finally, in this context a form of more regular re-recruitment should be mentioned that in practice had some quantitative importance: the ransoming of prisoners of war.
The incident illustrates the importance of ransoming noble captives, as a means of political manipulation, increasing one's own revenues and exhausting the resources of one's foes.
What we did learn is this it's a hostage that's worth ransoming.
Apart from being conspicuously virtuous, he showed a practical turn in building aqueducts and ransoming captives, as well as building new churches and restoring monasteries.
While performing these missions, he makes moves to take sole possession of the illicit ransoming funds, but is eliminated.
The practice of ransoming had long been customary in medieval wars and there was no reason to forgo its pecuniary advantages in this conflict.
