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Description. An 1824 wanted poster issued by the Spanish Empire and offering a gold and silver bounty for the capture of pirate captain Roberto Cofresí. A wanted poster for escaped boys at Plainfield 's Indiana Boys School, 1917. The poster will usually include a description of the wanted person (s) and the crime (s) for which they are sought.
Commands. Queen Anne's Revenge, Adventure. Edward Teach (or Thatch; c. 1680 – 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies. Little is known about his early life, but he may have been a sailor on privateer ships during Queen ...
Anne Bonny [a] (disappeared after 28 November 1720) [4] was a pirate operating in the Caribbean, and one of the few female pirates in recorded history. [5] What little that is known of her life comes largely from Captain Charles Johnson's 1724 book A General History of the Pyrates, though the information presented by Johnson about her is considered dubious.
Edward Low (also spelled Lowe or Loe; c. 1690–1724) was a pirate of English origin during the latter days of the Golden Age of Piracy, in the early 18th century. Low was born into poverty in Westminster, London, and was a thief from an early age. He moved to Boston, Massachusetts, as a young man. His wife died in childbirth in late 1719.
Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica. Sir Henry Morgan ( Welsh: Harri Morgan; c. 1635 – 25 August 1688) was a Welsh [ 1] privateer, plantation owner, and, later, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica. From his base in Port Royal, Jamaica, he and those under his command raided settlements and shipping ports on the Spanish Main, becoming wealthy as they did so.
According to the wanted poster, Menjivar's last known location was in Virginia, but his current whereabouts are unknown. He is described as 5 feet 5 inches tall, about 150 pounds, with black hair ...
Henry Every. Henry Every, also known as Henry Avery (20 August 1659 – Disappeared: June 1696), sometimes erroneously given as Jack Avery or John Avery, [ a] was an English pirate who operated in the Atlantic and Indian oceans in the mid-1690s. He probably used several aliases throughout his career, including Benjamin Bridgeman, and was known ...
Pirate code. Treasure being divided among pirates in an illustration by Howard Pyle. A pirate code, pirate articles, or articles of agreement were a code of conduct for governing ships of pirates, notably between the 17th and 18th centuries, during the so-called "Golden Age of Piracy". The typical pirate crew was an unorthodox mixture of former ...