Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
[1]: 148 New York was a popular place for pirates to unload their goods. [ 14 ] : 202–215, 211 During the first quarter century of 1700s, one of the best known events is Blackbeard's blockade of Charleston's port often acknowledged as the pirate wars of South Carolina .
This is today known as Pirates Cove and is a popular feature of Port Jefferson Harbor among boaters. For several decades prior to her death in 2014, Belle Terre was the principal home of Nadia de Navarro Farber , a Bulgarian-born countess (by her second of four marriages) who donated considerably to the John T. Mather Memorial Hospital in ...
Anthony Janszoon van Salee [note 1] (1607–1676) was an original settler of and prominent landholder, merchant, and creditor in New Netherland, a 17th-century colonial province [1] of the Dutch Republic located on the East Coast of what is now the United States of America.
This shipwreck's gold, silver, and emeralds helped spawn a golden age of piracy in the Bahamas and excavators keep finding more treasure Jenny McGrath September 6, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Robert Edwards (supposedly died c.1738) [1] was a Welsh buccaneer who descendants claim was given 77 acres (310,000 m 2) of largely unsettled Manhattan by Queen Anne of the Kingdom of Great Britain for his services in disrupting Spanish sea lanes.
The New York State Department of State's Division of Consumer Protection wants New Yorkers to protect themselves from package theft this holiday season. Keep track of your packages
Suspected pirates assemble on the deck of a dhow near waters off of western Malaysia, January 2006.. Piracy in the 21st century (commonly known as modern piracy) has taken place in a number of waters around the globe, including but not limited to, the Gulf of Guinea, Gulf of Aden, [1] Arabian Sea, [2] Strait of Malacca, Sulu and Celebes Seas, Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal and Falcon Lake.
At any rate, the survivors were left aboard their emptied ships, which the pirates set free to continue on their voyage back to India. The loot from Ganj-i-sawai , the greatest ship in the Mughal fleet, totaled somewhere between £200,000 and £600,000, including 500,000 gold and silver pieces.