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Jasón, a Jewish archer on the prow of a pirate ship (a painting from Jason's Tomb). Jewish pirates were Jewish people who engaged in piracy.While there is some mention of the phenomenon in antiquity, especially during the Hasmonean period (c. 140–37 BCE), most Jewish pirates were Sephardim who operated in the years following the Alhambra Decree of 1492 ordering the expulsion of Iberia's Jews.
Even though his role as a pirate was disclosed during the Spanish Inquisition, he was never caught and never faced trial. [1] [2] [3] After the English conquest of Jamaica, Henriques migrated to the island, where he helped to establish the Jewish community in Jamaica. Morgan, who became the governor of Jamaica, gave Henriques a full pardon in ...
Abraham Blauvelt was a Dutch privateer, pirate and explorer of Central America in the 1630s, after whom both the Bluefield River and the neighboring town of Bluefields, Nicaragua were named. [ 1 ] One of the last of the Dutch corsairs of the mid-17th century, Abraham Blauvelt was first recorded exploring the coasts of present-day Honduras and ...
The Brethren or Brethren of the Coast were a loose coalition of pirates and buccaneers that were active in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico. They mostly operated in two locations, the island of Tortuga off the coast of Haiti and in the city of Port Royal on the island of Jamaica. [1]
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Joseph Bannister (died 1687, first name occasionally given as George) was an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy. He is best known for surviving an attack from two Royal Navy warships.
Edward Heyward Kritzler (died 2010) was a Jamaican popular historian, specializing in the Sephardic diaspora in the wake of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and the Jewish identity continuity in the "New World", Amsterdam, the Maghreb, and Ottoman eastern Mediterranean.
Though Henley had a privateering commission from Governor Lilburne of the Bahamas, the governments of Jamaica and New York publicly proclaimed both Henley and Goffe to be pirates. [2] Goffe was prolific enough in the area that a small island was named for him, known as Goff's Caye; another nearby island was named for pirate Joseph Bannister. [3]