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Henry Every is mentioned repeatedly in the TV series Black Sails, a prequel to Treasure Island. He is credited with inventing the Black Spot and discovering the Treasure Island. Henry Avery is the focus of the video game Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, in which protagonist Nathan Drake and his brother Samuel hunt
[c] [22] While Fateh Muhammed ' s treasure of some £50,000 to £60,000 was enough to buy Fancy fifty times over, [23] once the treasure was shared out among the pirate fleet, Every's crew received only small shares. [24] An 18th-century depiction of Henry Every, with the Fancy shown engaging its prey in the background
The Ganj-i-Sawai (Persian/Hindustani:Ganj-i-Sawai, in English "Exceeding Treasure", often anglicized as Gunsway) was an armed Ghanjah dhow (trading ship) belonging to the Mughals. During Aurangzeb's reign, it was captured on 7 September 1695 by the English pirate Henry Avery en route from present-day Mocha, Yemen to Surat, India.
Flag attributed to Henry Every Every continued to be active in the Indian Ocean, where he worked alongside other famous pirates of his time, including Thomas Tew . Most notable in his captures was Ganj-i-Sawai , a Mughal ship under the command of Ibrahim Khan during Emperor Aurangzeb 's era.
Pirates burying treasure was a rare occurrence, with the only known instance being William Kidd, who buried some of his wealth on Gardiners Island. The myth of buried pirate treasure was popularized by such 19th-century fiction as "Wolfert Webber" by Washington Irving, "The Gold-Bug" by Edgar Allan Poe, and Treasure Island by Robert Louis ...
Henry Every (or Avery) is famous as one of the few pirates of the era who was able to retire with his takings without being either arrested or killed in battle. Although modern historians dispute the legitimacy of his trial and execution, the rumour of Captain Kidd 's buried treasure has served only to build a legend around the man as a great ...
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".
Joseph Faro (fl. 1694–1696, last name occasionally Farrell, Firra, or Faroe) was a pirate from Newport, Rhode Island active during the Golden Age of Piracy, primarily in the Indian Ocean. He is best known for sailing alongside Thomas Tew to join Henry Every’s pirate fleet which captured and looted the fabulously rich Mughal ship Gunsway.