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Toronto74 87 .460 19.0 2-8 From 1995-2013, 41% of the world's pirate attacks happened in SE Asia. Its waters have been declared the world's most dangerous by the U.N. Asia’s seas offer rich pickings for marauding pirates...
Learn about the origins, evolution and examples of piracy, the act of robbery or violence by ship or boat-borne attackers. Explore the etymology, culture and legal aspects of piracy, as well as its modern challenges and threats.
- The Barbarossa Brothers
- Sir Francis Drake
- L’Olonnais
- Henry Morgan
- Captain Kidd
- Blackbeard
- Calico Jack
- Madame Cheng
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Sailing from North Africa’s Barbary Coast, the Barbarossa (which means “red beard” in Italian) brothers Aruj and Hizir became rich by capturing European vessels in the Mediterranean Sea. Though their most lucrative early victims included two papal galleys and a Sardinian warship, they began targeting the Spanish around the time Aruj lost an arm to ...
Francis Drake, nicknamed “my pirate” by Queen Elizabeth I, was among the so-called “Sea Dog” privateers licensed by the English government to attack Spanish shipping. Drake sailed on his most famous voyage from 1577 to 1580, becoming the first English captain to circumnavigate the globe. On that same trip, he lost four of his five boats, executed a...
L’Olonnais was one of many buccaneers—a cross between state-sponsored privateers and outright outlaws—who plied the Caribbean Sea in the mid-to-late 1600s. Also known as Jean-David Nau, L’Olonnais is believed to have begun raiding Spanish ships and coastal settlements—and cultivating a reputation for excessive cruelty—soon after arriving in the Car...
Perhaps the best-known pirate of the buccaneering era, Henry Morgan once purportedly ordered his men to lock the inhabitants of Puerto Príncipe, Cuba, inside a church so that they could plunder the town unhindered. He then moved on to capture Porto Bello, Panama, in part by creating a human shield out of priests, women and the mayor. Over the next ...
Once a respected privateer, Captain William Kiddset sail in 1696 with the assignment of hunting down pirates in the Indian Ocean. But he soon turned pirate himself, capturing vessels such as the Quedagh Merchant and killing a subordinate with a wooden bucket. A massive defection left him with a skeleton crew for the journey home, which included a s...
Born Edward Teach, Blackbeard intimidated enemies by coiling smoking fuses into his long, braided facial hair and by slinging multiple pistols and daggers across his chest. In November 1717 he captured a French slave ship, later renamed the Queen Anne’s Revenge, and refitted it with 40 guns. With that extra firepower, he then blockaded the port of ...
John Rackam, better known as Calico Jack, received a pardon for previous piracy acts in 1719. Nonetheless, he headed back out to sea the following year after seizing a 12-gun sloop from Nassau Harbor in the Bahamas. Among Rackam’s dozen or so followers were two of the only women pirates ever to ply Caribbean waters. One, Anne Bonny, had left her hu...
In 1805 Madame Cheng’s husband, Cheng Yih, formed what quickly became the largest pirate confederation in history. Upon his death two years later, Madame Cheng took over the business and expanded it even further, commanding an estimated 1,800 ships and 70,000 men at the height of her powers. With the help of Cheung Po Tsai—the adopted son of her hu...
Learn about the lives and exploits of eight notorious pirates who roved the high seas, from the Barbary Coast brothers to Madame Cheng. Discover how they became pirates, what they did, and how they met their ends.
- Jesse Greenspan
For many people, the term pirate conjures up images of the so-called “golden age” of piracy, in the 17th and 18th centuries, along with legendary pirates such as Blackbeard or Captain Kidd or their fictional equivalents such as Long John Silver or Captain Jack Sparrow.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Edward Teach (“Blackbeard”) Edward Teach (aka “Thatch”) was born in the English port city of Bristol around 1680. Although it is unclear when exactly Teach arrived in the Caribbean, it is likely he disembarked as a sailor on privateer ships during the War of Spanish Succession at the turn of the 18th century.
- Benjamin Hornigold. Perhaps best known for mentoring Edward Teach, Captain Benjamin Hornigold (b. 1680) was a notorious pirate captain who operated in the Bahamas during the early 18th century.
- Charles Vane. As with many of the famous pirates on this list, it is believed that Charles Vane was born in England around 1680. Described as precarious and capricious pirate captain, Vane’s fearless nature and impressive combat skills made him an incredibly successful pirate, but his volatile relationship with his pirate crew would eventually lead to his demise.
- Jack Rackham (“Calico Jack”) Born in 1682, John “Jack” Rackham, more commonly known as Calico Jack, was a Jamaican-born British pirate who operated in the West Indies during the early 18th century.
Jul 2, 2020 · It's the real pirates of the Caribbean—and the Carolinas. Privateers, buccaneers, and scurvy sea dogs prowled the Caribbean and the Atlantic in search of booty as the 'Golden Age of Piracy ...
Jul 18, 2023 · When were pirates first around? Did pirates really exist? Yes, pirates existed — and starting in the 14th century, they helped shape European history. This article will explore the history of pirates, from ancient times to the Golden Age and beyond.
