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Anne Bonny [a] (disappeared after 28 November 1720) [4] was a pirate who served under John "Calico Jack" Rackham. Amongst the few recorded female pirates in history, [5] she has become one of the most recognized pirates of the Golden Age of Piracy as well as in the history of piracy in general. Much of Bonny's background is unknown.
Jacquotte Delahaye (fl. 1656) was a purported pirate of legend in the Caribbean Sea. She has been depicted as operating alongside Anne Dieu-le-Veut as one of very few 17th-century female pirates . There is no evidence from period sources that Delahaye was a real person.
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Sarah Bishop (c. 1759 – c. 1809) was an affluent American woman who was forced to become a female pirate during the years of 1778–1780. [1] [2] She escaped from the ship, swam to shore, and lived in a cave as a hermit for about thirty years until she froze to death.
The science fiction novel The Red Scholar's Wake (2022), by Aliette de Bodard, features space pirates modelled on Ching Shih and the pirates of the South China Sea. [ 68 ] In the classics remix of Treasure Island , A Clash of Steel by C.B.Lee Zheng Yi Sao's stories are passed on, and she turns out to be a major character
Anne Dieu-Le-Veut is known as a pirate, supposedly accompanying her husband Laurens de Graaf on his acts of piracy. Usually, it was considered bad luck to have a woman on board a ship, but Anne was instead regarded as a good luck charm.
After another failed attempt to free Cuba he was executed in Havana by the royalists in 1851. Sam Hall Lord: 1778–1844 1800s–1840s Barbados Sam Lord was one of the most famous buccaneers on the island of Barbados. Kazimierz Lux: 1780–1846 1803–1819 Poland The Polish Pirates of the Caribbean.