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The Extraordinary Journey of David Ingram with Dean Snow
In The Extraordinary Journey of David Ingram, author and recognized archaeologist Dean Snow shows that Ingram was not a fraud, contradicting the longstanding narrative of his life. Snow's careful examination of three long-neglected surviving...
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Jolly Roger of Edward Low
The Jolly Roger pirate flag of the English pirate Edward 'Ned' Low (d. 1724). Low was one of the cruelest of all pirate captains during the Golden Age of Piracy (1690-1730), notorious for torturing and mutilating his captives.
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Mary Read by Debelle
The pirate Mary Read (d. 1721), illustration by Alexandre Debelle from Histoire des pirates et corsaires de l'Océan et de la Méditerranée depuis leur origine jusqu'à nos jours, P. Christian, Paris, Cavaillès, 1846.
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Anne Bonny
Irish-born pirate Anne Bonny, active in the Caribbean in 1719-20, a 1725 Dutch print which appeared in an early edition of A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates by Daniel Defoe/Charles Johnson.
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The Queen Anne's Revenge
A model of the Queen Anne's Revenge. The ship was originally used for the transportation of slaves but was captured and converted into a 40-cannon pirate ship by Blackbeard, aka Edward Teach (d. 1718). (North Carolina Museum of History)
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Bartholomew Roberts from Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
An artist's impression of how the Welsh pirate Bartholomew Roberts, aka 'Black Bart' Roberts (c. 1682-1722) may have looked. Roberts was one of the most successful pirates of the so-called Golden Age of Piracy. He was killed resisting arrest...
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Tom Hopper as Billy Bones
Tom Hopper as the fictional pirate William "Billy Bones" Manderly in the TV series Black Sails. Billy Jones is a character in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island.
© 2014 Starz
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17th Century Tortuga
A 17th-century illustration of the buccaneer and pirate base of Tortuga, located on the northwest coast of Hispaniola (modern Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
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Blackbeard or Edward Teach
A colourised engraving of the pirate Blackbeard, aka Edward Teach (d. 1718). First appeared in an 18th-century edition of a 'General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates' by Charles Johnson (likely a pseudonym...
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Mary Read from Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
An artist's impression of how the pirate Mary Read (d. 1721) may have looked.
Image from the computer game Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag by Ubisoft.
© 2013 Ubisoft
