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17th-century pirates

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Welsh pirate (1635-1688)

William Dampier

British pirate and explorer (1651-1715)

Scottish sailor who was tried and executed for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean

English captain and pirate

pirate Queen of Umaill, chieftain of the Ó Máille clan

Wokou (; ; Hepburn: ; ; literal Chinese translation: "dwarf bandits"), which translates to "Japanese pirates", were pirates who raided the coastlines of China and Korea from the 13th century to the 17th century. The wokou were made of various ethnicities of East Asian ancestry, which varied over time and raided the mainland from islands in the Sea of Japan and East China Sea.

Golden Age of Piracy

maritime piracy from the 1650s to the 1730s

François l'Olonnais

French pirate of the Caribbean

Republic of Salé

independent maritime city-state between 1627 and 1668 at the mouth of the Bu Regregue river

Jan Mourad Janszoon

Barbary pirate of Dutch descent

Chinese merchant, pirate, admiral (1604-1661)

Roche Braziliano

Dutch buccaneer

Alexandre Exquemelin

French, Dutch or Flemish writer

Christopher Newport

English privateer

Michel de Grammont

English buccaneer

Lawrence Prince

Laurens de Graaf

Anne Dieu-le-Veut

French Pirate (1661-1710)

Charlotte de Berry

Bartholomew Sharp

English buccaneer

Samuel Pallache

Jewish-Moroccan merchant, diplomat and pirate

Pierre le Grand

Claes Gerritszoon Compaen

privateer and pirate

Jeronimus Cornelisz

Frisian apothecary and merchant

Christopher Myngs

Royal Navy admiral

Christina Anna Skytte

Hendrick Lucifer

Baltazar de Cordes

Nicholas van Hoorn

Chinese tailor, merchant and fugitive

Canadian pirate

Michel le Basque

Dey of Tunis (1570-1640)

Abraham Blauvelt

Dutch pirate, explorer

Moses Cohen Henriques

Sephardic pirate

Nathaniel North

Bermudian pirate

Robert Culliford

English buccaneer and writer

Algerian corsair