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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.
Anne Bonny (c. Born on 1700-1705 Died? on April 25, 1720 ?) was an Irish pirate who plied her trade in the Caribbean.. While in the Bahamas, Anne Bonny began mingling with pirates at the local drinking establishments, and met the pirate John "Calico Jack" Rackham, with whom she shortly thereafter had an affair.
Like Anne Bonny, Mary Read was one of two famous female pirates dressed like a man aboard John Rackham’s ship. Read was an illegitimate child. She was born around 1690 in Plymouth, England, to a ...
Mary Read (died April 1721), was an English pirate.She and Anne Bonny were among the few female pirates during the "Golden Age of Piracy".. Read was likely born in England. General History says she began dressing as a boy at a young age, at first at her mother's urging in order to receive inheritance money and then as a teenager in order to join the British milit
In Irish folklore she is commonly known as Gráinne Mhaol (anglicised as Granuaile) and is a well-known historical figure in sixteenth-century Irish history. Her name was also rendered in contemporaneous English documents in various ways, including Gráinne O'Maly, Graney O'Mally, Granny ni Maille, Grany O'Mally, Grayn Ny Mayle, Grane ne Male ...
Anne Bonny is back. Not the pirate, but a tagged great white shark of the same name was swimming in the deep water off the New Jersey coast. Anne Bonny, a great white shark, returns to New Jersey ...
Anne Bonny: 1698–1782 to 1725 Ireland Despite never commanding a ship herself, Anne Bonny is remembered as one of few known female pirates. [25] [28] [31] George Booth: d. 1700 1696–1700 England One of the earliest pirates active in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea. John Bowen: d. 1704 1700–1704 Bermuda
Anne Bonny was a married woman who moved to Nassau sometime between 1714 and 1718, according to A General History of the Pyrates, a book published in 1724 by Captain Charles Johnson, a pen name for an author who remains unknown. According to this account, Bonny met Calico Jack Rackham and fell in love with him.