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The Guangdong Pirate Confederation was an alliance of pirate fleets active in late-18th- and early-19th-century China, around the Pearl River Delta. At its height, the confederation had an estimated 400 to 2000 vessels and as many as 50,000 or 70,000 pirates. Faced with determined opposition by official Qing forces and the Portuguese Navy however, it was gradually dismembered until its last members surrendered on April 15, 1810.