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  2. Jim Hawkins (character) - Wikipedia

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    Jim Hawkins (character) One More Step, Mr. Hands by N. C. Wyeth, 1911, for Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Jim Hawkins with pistols). Jim Hawkins is a fictional character and the protagonist in Robert Louis Stevenson 's 1883 novel Treasure Island. [1] He is both the protagonist and the main narrator of the story.

  3. Treasure map - Wikipedia

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    A treasure map is a map that marks the location of buried treasure, a lost mine, a valuable secret or a hidden locale. More common in fiction than in reality, "pirate treasure maps" are often depicted in works of fiction as hand drawn and containing arcane clues for the characters to follow. Regardless of the term's literary use, anything that ...

  4. Billy Bones - Wikipedia

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    Bones' account book, read by Jim Hawkins and Dr. Livesey, says that Bones was a pirate for nearly 20 years. [2]According to the map notes of Treasure Island, Captain Flint hid his treasure in August 1750 and Bones received the Map in July 1754 while Flint was dying.

  5. Golden Age of Piracy - Wikipedia

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    At the Point of a Cutlass: The Pirate Capture, Bold Escape, and Lonely Exile of Philip Ashton. ForeEdge. ISBN 978-1-61168-515-2. Little, Benerson (2011). How History's Greatest Pirates Pillaged, Plundered, and Got Away with It: the Stories, Techniques, and Tactics of the Most Feared Sea Rovers from 1500-1800. Fair Winds Press. Kuhn, Gabriel (2010).

  6. Piracy in the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    Central America and the Caribbean (detailed pdf map) The era of piracy in the Caribbean began in the 1500s and phased out in the 1830s after the navies of the nations of Western Europe and North America with colonies in the Caribbean began hunting and prosecuting pirates. The period during which pirates were most successful was from the 1650s ...

  7. Piracy in the Atlantic World - Wikipedia

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    Howard Pyle's doodle of the carriage of a treasure chest by two pirates, a Caucasian and a black man, as they are led by pirate captain William Kidd. Seafaring "became one of the most common male occupations" for Africans and African-Americans in the early 19th century. Black sailors filled about one-fifth of the population at various sea havens.

  8. Samuel Bellamy - Wikipedia

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    Equiv. US$ 169.8 million in 2023;[1] #1 Forbes top-earning pirates[2] Captain Samuel Bellamy (c. 23 February 1689 – 26 April 1717), later known as "Black Sam" Bellamy, was an English sailor turned pirate during the early 18th century. He is best known as the wealthiest pirate in recorded history, and one of the faces of the Golden Age of Piracy.

  9. Henry Jennings - Wikipedia

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    Henry Jennings. Henry Jennings was an English privateer -turned- pirate. Jennings' first recorded act of piracy took place in early 1716 when, with three vessels and 150–300 men, Jennings' fleet ambushed the Spanish salvage camp from the 1715 Treasure Fleet. [3]