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English: A pirate flag described by William Falconer as, "[t]he colours usually displayed by pirates are laid to be a black field, with a death's head, a battle-axe and hour-glass." Date 10 April 2020
The Jolly Roger raised in an illustration for Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance "Paul Jones the Pirate", a British caricature of the late 18th century, is an early example of the Jolly Roger's skull-and-crossbones being transferred to a character's hat, in order to identify him as a pirate (typically a tricorne, or as in this ...
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Taylor's Jolly Roger pirate flag, described as “Fought under the black flagg at ye main topmast head. with deaths head in it” [3]. Taylor began his piratical career in 1718 as a crewman aboard the trading sloop Buck when Howell Davis staged a mutiny, took over the ship, and convinced the crew to take up piracy. [4]
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Edward England's flag, described by the East India Company as "flying a black flag with a skull and crossed bones at the main". Edward England ( c. 1685 –1721) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] was an Irish pirate . The ships he sailed on included the Pearl (which he renamed The Royal James ) and later the Fancy , for which England exchanged the Pearl in 1720.
Charles Grey attributed it to him in 1933 in “Pirates of the Eastern Seas” but without citing any evidence. [8] The only period source describing his flag is an article in The St. James Post from June 1718 describing his ships "who appear'd with flags having a Deaths Head on them." [14]
The Jolly Roger is the name given to any of various flags flown to identify a ship's crew as pirates. Since the decline of piracy, various military units have used the Jolly Roger, usually in skull-and-crossbones design, as a unit identification insignia or a victory flag to ascribe to themselves the proverbial ferocity and toughness of pirates.