English pirates

English sailor and privateer (c. 1540 – 1596)

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

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HMS Bounty mutineer (1764-1793)

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

English peer and favorite of Edward II

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Australian pirate

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British naval officer and pirate (1587-1653)

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Royal Navy admiral

English pirate, explorer, and circumnavigator of the world, the first to map the Galapagos Islands in any detail

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English pirate (1688-1758)

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pirate active in the Caribbean

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