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19th-century pirates

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Ching Shih
influential female Chinese pirate
Eugène François Vidocq
French criminal and criminalist
Cave-In-Rock
village in Hardin County, Illinois, United States
Jean Lafitte
French pirate and privateer
Jørgen Jørgensen
self declared King of Iceland, defied the crown of Denmark. Reigned for a short period (1780-1841)
Robert Surcouf
French privateer
Cheung Po Tsai
18th- and 19th-century Chinese naval officer and former pirate
Roberto Cofresí
Puerto Rican pirate (1791–1825)
Hippolyte Bouchard
French navy officer
Ioannis Varvakis
Greek revolutionary, Greek pirate
Charlotte Badger
Australian pirate
Louis-Michel Aury
French pirate (1786-1821)
Dominique You
privateer, soldier, and politician (1775-1830)
Chui A-poo
Chinese pirate
Albert W. Hicks
American pirate
Cai Qian
Chinese pirate
Benito de Soto
Spanish pirate (1805–1830)
Nathaniel Gordon
American slave trader (1826–1862)
Zheng Yi
Chinese pirate
Julienne David
French privateer
Pedro Gilbert
Spanish pirate (c. 1797–1835)
Shap Ng-tsai
Shap-ng-tsai () was a Chinese pirate active in the South China Sea from about 1845 to 1859. He was one of the two most notorious South China Sea pirates of the era, along with Chui A-poo. He commanded about 70 junks stationed at Dianbai, about 180 miles west of Hong Kong. Coastal villages and traders paid Shap-ng-tsai protection money so they would not be attacked. Chinese naval ships that pursued the pirate were captured and their officers taken captive and held for ransom. The Chinese government offered him a pardon and the rank of officer in the military at first he did not accept, but he e
Bully Hayes
19th-century American sailor and blackbirder
Peter Corney
English sailor
Raïs Hamidou
Navy officer of Regency of Algiers
Vincenzo Gambi
Italian pirates
Jasim bin Jabir
persian Gulf pirate
Johanna Hård
pirate (1789-1851)
Renato Beluche
Venezuelan sailor (1780–1860)
Ng Akew
Qing dynasty person