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Mary Critchett (died 1729, first name also Maria, last name also Crichett or Crickett) was an English pirate and convict. She is best known for being one of only four confirmed female pirates from the Golden Age of Piracy, [1] and the only one executed.
Piracy usually excludes crimes committed by the perpetrator on their own vessel (e.g. theft), as well as privateering, which implies authorization by a state government. Piracy or pirating is the name of a specific crime under customary international law and also the name of a number of crimes under the municipal law of a number of states.
The oldest known literary mention of a "Golden Age" of piracy is from 1894, when the English journalist George Powell wrote about "What appears to have been the golden age of piracy up to the last decade of the 17th century." [1] Powell uses the phrase while reviewing Charles Leslie's A New and Exact History of Jamaica, then over 150 years old ...
He is best known for bringing the Farley family with him, causing Martha Farley to be one of the few women tried for piracy. Thomas Wake: d. 1696 1694–1696 Colonial America Best known for sailing alongside Thomas Tew to join Henry Every in the Indian Ocean, hunting the Moghul treasure fleet. Richard Want? 1692–1696 Colonial America
Awilda was the daughter of a 5th-century Scandinavian king; [1] [2] referred to in one source as Synardus and a "Gothic king". [3] It is said [by whom?] that the King, her father, had arranged a marriage for her to Alf, the crown prince of Denmark, [2] whose father was King Sygarus of Denmark. [3]
Huang Bamei [3] (Chinese: 黃八妹; pinyin: Huáng Bāmèi; 1906 – 4 May 1982), also known as Huang P’ei-mei [4] [5] or Huang P'emei, [2] was a Chinese pirate leader who served as a naval commander in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and the second phase of the Chinese Civil War (1945–1949), aligned with the Republic of China but at times of dubious allegiance.