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He is best known for a single attack on a Spanish pearl-diving fleet. His story appears only in Alexandre Exquemelin's History of the Buccaneers and the truth of his account is uncertain. Thomas Freeman: 17th century 1655–1680 England English buccaneer and pirate active in the Caribbean.
Engraving from Captain Charles Johnson's General History of the Pyrates (1st Dutch Edition, 1725) While piracy was predominantly a male occupation throughout history, a minority of pirates were female. [121] Pirates did not allow women onto their ships very often. Additionally, women were often regarded as bad luck among pirates.
A General History of the Pirates (1724) by Captain Charles Johnson is the source of many biographies of well-known pirates, providing an extensive account of the period. [36] Johnson gives an almost mythical status to the more colorful characters such as the notorious English pirates Blackbeard and Calico Jack.
This is a timeline of the history of piracy.. Piracy in ancient history; Piracy in post-classical history; 1560s; 1570s; 1580s; 1590s; 1600s; 1610s; 1620s; 1630s ...
A General History of the Pyrates by Charles Johnson, the prime source for the biographies of many well known pirates, giving an almost mythical status to the more colorful characters, such as the infamous English pirates Blackbeard and Calico Jack, and influenced pirate literature that followed.
June 20 - Murat Reis the Younger executes the Sack of Baltimore where he captured 108 English planters and local Irish people. Almost all the villagers were put in irons and taken to a life of slavery in North Africa. [1] December - Frances Knight is captured by Algerian corsairs and forced into slavery. [2]
This timeline of the history of piracy in the 1640s is a chronological list of key events involving pirates between 1640 and 1649. See also: Timeline of piracy Events
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