Editing Pirogue (section)

==Uses in military and piracy contexts==
[[File:Pintle mounted gun on the "White" pirogue.JPG|thumb|[[Lewis and Clark Expedition|Lewis and Clark's]] pirogues mounted [[blunderbuss]] to the bow with a [[Weapon mount|pintle]].]]

There are accounts of 17th and 18th century [[Piracy in the Caribbean|Caribbean pirates]] using pirogues to attack and take by force much larger vessels including [[sloop]]s and even [[barca-longa]]s.<ref name=marley>{{cite book|last=Marley|first=David F.|title=Pirates of the Americas |volume=1|year=2010|publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]]|isbn=9781598842012 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bU6ML_VnXTwC}}</ref> Pirogues were used extensively by pirates and [[buccaneer]]s throughout the Caribbean, the now-Mexican and Gulf Coasts and the East Coast of what is now the United States. For the most part, though, such vessels were used for scouting or as [[Ship's tender|tenders]].<ref name=marley/>

Pirogues were used by Lewis and Clark on the [[Missouri River]] and westward from 1804–1806, in addition to [[bateau]]x, larger flat-bottomed boats that could only be used in large rivers.<ref>Ambrose, Stephen (1997). ''Undaunted Courage''. {{ISBN|0-684-82697-6}}</ref> Their pirogues were medium-sized boats of the company carrying eight rowers and a pilot, capable of carrying eight tons of cargo.<ref>[http://lewis-clark.org/content/content-article.asp?ArticleID=3072 "Pirogues"], ''Discovering Lewis & Clark'', The Lewis and Clark Fort Mandan Foundation, 2009{{deadlink |date=August 2023}}</ref> [[Henry D. Thoreau]] writes of using heavy pirogues in his book ''The Maine Woods''.