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William Wright (fl. 1675-1682) was an English privateer in French service and later buccaneer who raided Spanish towns in the late 17th century. History [ edit ]
[30] [31] In 1682, buccaneer Thomas Paine accepted a pardon from the governor of Jamaica. [32] Jan Willems was made a similar offer. [33] [34] Around 1684, Lynch tried persuading Laurens de Graaf to accept an English pardon. [35] [36] John Coxon received a pardon after surrendering to the Jamaicans in September 1688. [37]
He was born John Roberts in 1682 in Casnewydd Bach, [7] between Fishguard and Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire, Wales. His father was most likely George Roberts. [8] It is unclear why Roberts changed his name from John to Bartholomew, [9] but pirates often adopted aliases. He may have chosen his first name after the well-known buccaneer ...
Michel de Grammont, sailing from Yucatán along with the rest of the buccaneer fleet, becomes separated from the other ships while trying to evade a storm, and is never seen again. The Armada de Barlovento embarks on a three-year expedition to locate and destroy La Salle's colony which French privateers had been using as a base to raid Spanish ...
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1643–1682 1662–1682 China Chinese pirate and warlord. The eldest son of Koxinga and grandson of Zheng Zhilong, he succeeded his father as ruler of Tainan and briefly occupied Fujian. Cornelius Jol: 1597–1641 1630s–1640s Netherlands Dutch corsair successful against the Spanish in the West Indies. One of the first to use a wooden peg leg.
1682 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1682nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 682nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 82nd year of the 17th century, and the 3rd year of the 1680s decade. As of the start of 1682, the ...
Coxon, a buccaneer and member of the Brethren of the Coast who was infamous for his various raids on the Spanish Main through the 17th century, turned to hunting pirates in 1682. He, his 97-man crew, and an eighty-ton ship armed with eight guns, mysteriously disappeared in 1688; their fate is unknown.