18th-century pirates

Edward Teach (or Thatch; – 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies. Little is known about his early life, but he may have been a sailor on privateering ships during Queen Anne's War before he settled on the Bahamian island of New Providence, a base for Captain Benjamin Hornigold, whose crew Teach joined around 1716. Hornigold placed him in command of a sloop that he had captured, and the two engaged in numerous acts of piracy. Their numbers were boosted by the addition to

Female pirate

British pirate and explorer (1651-1715)

English pirate

1789 mutiny aboard the British Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty

English pirate (1682-1720)

English captain and pirate

Welsh pirate (1682-1722)

early 18th-century Barbadian pirate

HMS Bounty mutineer (1764-1793)

English pirate (1680–1719)

English pirate

maritime piracy from the 1650s to the 1730s

English pirate (1690–1724)

republic on the New Providence island in the Bahamas ruled by pirates between 1706–1718

British seaman and mutineer, last survivor of the Bounty mutineers (1767–1829)

British pirate

French pirate

French admiral and buccaneer

18th-century pirate

Welsh pirate

American pirate; last woman hanged in the state of Massachusetts

British pirate

London slave ship captured by pirate Samuel Bellamy

British pirate

English pirate

Dutch pirate

French Pirate (1661-1710)

leader of the Acadian people in Acadia (1702–1765)

British sailor, mutineer from the HMS Bounty

English pirate captain

Greek pirate

HMS Bounty mutineer

Swedish privateer (1692-1729)

Irish pirate

18th-century African pirate

1782 Hermione-class fifth-rate frigate

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18th century pirate

Bermudian pirate

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pirate active in the Caribbean

English pirate

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English pirate

Navy officer of Regency of Algiers

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Welsh pirate, died 1723

British pirate

pirate active in the Bahamas around 1718

Bermudian pirate

Colonial American privateer and pirate

English pirate (1688-1758)