The American pirate who kicked off one of Hong Kong's earliest major political scandals

The 1857 trial of American pirate Eli Boggs in Hong Kong was a riveting affair, filled with tales of plunder, kidnapping and murder on the high seas. But it was Boggs' two-hour closing statement that shook the British colony's political establishment to its core.

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