English privateers

American Founding Father, philosopher, and political activist (1737–1809)

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

British pirate and explorer (1651-1715)

English seaman and privateer (1535–1594)

English-German aristocrat, army officer, admiral, scientist, and colonial administrator (1619–1682)

English navigator, admiral, privateer and slave trader (1532-1595)

English explorer and privateer (1560-1592)

early 18th-century Barbadian pirate

British sea captain and governor of the Bahamas (1679–1732)

British pirate

English privateer (1554-1618)

English courtier and diplomat (1603–1665)

17th-century English seaman, explorer and pirate (1562-1622)

English barrister, explorer, and privateer (1571–1607)

English pirate

English politician, soldier and explorer (1542-1591)

English engineer, explorer, cartographer (1574-1649)

English privateer

English noble (1558-1605)

British pirate

English pirate

Newfoundland colonial leader

English buccaneer

group of English privateers

English naval officer and privateer

Royal Navy admiral

Canadian pirate

admiral of the Royal Navy (1629-1673)

English privateer and Governor of Bermuda

English soldier, adventurer and politician, died 1630s

16th century English navigator, explorer and privateer

English mariner, privateer, author, and inventor

English privateer

English pirate (1688-1758)