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This is a chronological list of highwaymen, land pirates, mail coach robbers, road agents, stagecoach robbers, and bushrangers active, along trails, roads, and highways, in Europe, North America, South America, Australia, Asia, and Africa, from ancient times to the 20th century, arranged by continent and country.
John Boone was a member of South Carolina Governor James Colleton’s Grand Council in Charleston. The Lords Proprietors in England wrote to Colleton on March 3, 1687, accusing Boone of smuggling supplies to Holloway and helping hide his plunder. [ 4 ]
John and Lavinia Fisher, and other members of their gang, convicted of highway robbery in the Charleston Neck region were imprisoned here in 1819 to 1820. [3] Some of the last 19th-century high-seas pirates were jailed here in 1822 while they awaited hanging. [3] The Jail was active after the discovery of Denmark Vesey's planned slave revolt. [3]
English pirate active in South West England during the early-to-mid-15th century. Gödeke Michels: d. 1402: 1392–1402 Germany: A German pirate and one of the leaders of the Likedeelers, a combination of former Victual Brothers (Vitalienbrüder) Martin Pechlin [2] 1480–1526 Germany: Died in Mandal, Norway. One of the most feared pirates in ...
The Gamecocks and Pirates last faced off Dec. 20, 2015, with South Carolina winning 88-57 on a neutral court. What channel is South Carolina women's basketball vs. East Carolina on today? TV ...
In light of Wednesday's massacre in Charleston, South Carolina, it has been confirmed by the Southern Poverty Law Center that in addition to two factions of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), South Carolina ...
The Barbary pirates were pirates and privateers that operated from the North African (the "Barbary coast") ports of Algiers, Morocco, Salé, Tripoli, and Tunis, preying on shipping in the western Mediterranean Sea from the time of the Crusades as well as on ships on their way to Asia around Africa until the early 19th century.
The copperhead is South Carolina’s most common venomous snake. Copperheads can be found throughout the state, and watching where you step is extremely important when dealing with these snakes ...