Pardoned 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

English pirate (1682-1720)

English pirate (1680–1719)

early 18th-century Barbadian pirate

French pirate and privateer

18th-century pirate

British pirate

Dutch pirate

British pirate

English buccaneer

English buccaneer

privateer and pirate

British naval officer and pirate (1587-1653)

pirate

English pirate

Canadian pirate

Dutch pirate

18th century pirate

pirate active in the Caribbean

pirate active in the Bahamas around 1718