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Whydah Gally [1] / ˈ hw ɪ d ə ˈ ɡ æ l i, ˈ hw ɪ d ˌ ɔː / (commonly known simply as the Whydah) was a fully rigged ship that was originally built as a passenger, cargo, and slave ship. On the return leg of her maiden voyage of the triangle trade , Whydah Gally was captured by the pirate Captain Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy , beginning a ...
Cleveland Thomas Johnson (born November 3, 1955) is an American academic, administrator, music historian, and early-music performer. He retired as President/CEO of the Morris Museum (Morristown, New Jersey) in 2022.
John Gow (c. 1698–11 June 1725) [1] was a pirate whose short career was immortalised by Charles Johnson in the 1725 work The History and Lives of All the Most Notorious Pirates and Their Crews. [2]
Captain Charles Johnson was the British author of the 1724 book A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates, whose identity remains a mystery. No record exists of a captain by this name, and "Captain Charles Johnson" is generally considered a pen name for one of London's writer-publishers.
January – HMS Scarborough bombards and destroys several pirate vessels careening on St. Croix, stranding the pirate crew. Late February – Black Sam Bellamy in the Sultana takes the Whydah Gally near Jamaica and keeps it for his own use. April 1 – Benjamin Hornigold and a pirate named Napping capture a large armed sloop, the Bennet, out of ...
Joseph Faro (fl. 1694–1696, last name occasionally Farrell, Firra, or Faroe) was a pirate from Newport, Rhode Island active during the Golden Age of Piracy, primarily in the Indian Ocean. He is best known for sailing alongside Thomas Tew to join Henry Every ’s pirate fleet which captured and looted the fabulously rich Mughal ship Gunsway .
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An illustration of Welsh pirate Bartholomew Roberts in the 1724 edition. A General History introduced many features which later became common in pirate literature, such as pirates with missing legs or eyes, the notion of pirates burying treasure, and the name of the pirate flag the Jolly Roger.