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Stede Bonnet (c. 1688 – 10 December 1718) [a] was an English pirate who was known as the Gentleman Pirate [1] because he was a moderately wealthy landowner before turning to a life of crime. Bonnet was born into a wealthy English family on the island of Barbados , and inherited the family estate after his father's death in 1694.
Around early June, near Beaufort, North Carolina, Blackbeard allowed Stede Bonnet to sail to Bath to be pardoned by Governor Charles Eden. With Bonnet away, Blackbeard and about 100 others took the entire company's plunder – including Bonnet's share – and sailed to Bath along a different route, where they too received the King's Pardon. [94]
By 1804, pirate Zheng Yi commanded 400 junks and 70,000 men. [51] These were organized into six large pirate squadrons with flags of corresponding colors. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] Following a battle with these pirates in Guangzhou Bay , in 1805 a Chinese general offered a pardon to those who would surrender, which perhaps 3000 of them accepted. [ 50 ]
Bellamy was popularly known as the "Robin Hood of pirates" and prided himself on his ideological justifications for piracy. Stede Bonnet, a rich Barbadian land owner turned pirate solely in search of adventure. Bonnet captained a 10-gun sloop named the Revenge and raided ships off the Virginia coast in 1717. He was caught and hanged in 1718.
Stede Bonnet was a plantation owner on Barbados before he became a pirate. He became known as the "Gentleman Pirate". He became known as the "Gentleman Pirate". He plundered ships on the east coast of America before meeting up with Blackbeard in Nassau.
September 29 – "Gentleman Pirate" Stede Bonnet, who has traded plantation life for a pirate ship, transfers command of his sloop, the Revenge, to Blackbeard. November 28 – Blackbeard captures the French slave ship La Concorde near Martinique, equips her with 40 guns, and renames her the Queen Anne's Revenge.
Over the last ten years, the number of pirate attacks in Indonesia has dropped. However, there are still numerous reports on piracy occurring along coastal areas and gulfs. In 2011, 15 attacks were recorded in the month of January alone, where five attacks amounted to the total number of crimes during the first quarter of that respective year. [10]
Ignatius Pell was a pirate who served as the boatswain [1] to Captain Stede Bonnet aboard the Royal James, a ship previously named Revenge. [2] He was arrested in October 1718 and testified against his crew and captain.