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Famous Pirates Henry Every Henry Every served in the Royal Navy on the privateer called Charles. He and his crew seized Charles in 1694 and then renamed the shi[ "Fancy". Henry later found fabulous treasures in the Red Sea in 1695. Henry was known as a hero according to unemployed seaman and poor people in England. Henry Every and Thomas Tew were one of the first pirates to operate their ship in the Indian Ocean. Captain Every was one of the only major captains to have retired with his treasures without being arrested or killed. He is thought to have died as a poor man in England.



Bartholomew Roberts Bartholomew Roberts is believed to be one of the greatest pirates in history, having seized over 400 ships of the coast of Africa and Canada, in the Carribean, etc. One of the flags he had on his ship potrays him standing on two skulls. The other flag shows Roberts and the devil holding up an hourglass, trying to say that his enemy is going to die soon. Roberts was forced into piracy at the age of 37 when the slavery ship he was on was captured by Howell Davis. Just a month later after Roberts was captured, Howell Davis was murdered at Principe Island. Roberts was then elected captain of the ship named "Rover". His first mission as captain was to attack Principe Island as revenge for the people there who killed Howell Davis. After being in piracy for 4 years, Roberts died in battle with a British warship off the coast of Africa.



Jack Rackham Jack Rackham was called Calico Jack for his striped trousers he wore. He was a captain for 2 years (1718-1720). During these 2 years, Rackham plundered many ships. Rackham and his crew were captured by a government and were brought to trial in St. Jago de la Vega, Jamaica. Two women were in Captain Rackham's crew. Their names were Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Those women were the only female pirates on record. Captain Jack Rackham was murdered in Port Royal on November 17, 1720.



Edward Teach

Edward Teach, an English pirate was born in Bristol, England around 1680. Nicknamed Blackbeard for a lot of black facial hair on his face in which during battles he would light on fire to frighten the enemy. He served as a seaman on privateers ships sailing in and out of Jamaica during the course of the War of Sapnish Succession (1701-13). He then later served a board a Jamaican sloop commanded by a pirate by the name of Benjamin Hornigold. Blackbeard was then made captain of a captured trading sloop while serving under Captain Hornigold. He later captured a French merchant ship "the Concorde" which he later renamed the Queen Annes Revenge. Sadly, he was killed by the Royal Navy in 1718 off the coast of North Carolina. He was one of the most dreaded pirates of all time.Blackbeard had a long and prosperous career with the help of Charles Eden, the the governor of Carolina. However Lieut. Governor Alexander Spotswood of Virginia made two sloops with crews to kill Blackbeard in 1718., They encountered Edward in a big battle and Robert Maynard was the one who killed Blackbeard in the fight that followed.



Major Bonnet Few pirates could be called “gentlemen.” An exception was Maj. Stede Bonnet, a wealthy Barbados landowner who had turned pirate simply for the adventure. He equipped a 10-gun sloop, the //Revenge//, and in 1717 he began to raid ships off the Virginia coast. He was hanged for piracy in November 1718. Bonnet was one of the few pirates that sometimes had prisoners "walk the plank". Bonnet was more of a fancy guy with well groomed hair and nice clothing unlike most of the pirates you here about.

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