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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
An 18th-century depiction of Henry Every, with the Fancy shown engaging its prey in the background. Every now sailed in pursuit of the second Mughal ship, Ganj-i-Sawai [25] (meaning "Exceeding Treasure," and often Anglicized as Gunsway), [26] overtaking it a few days after the attack on Fateh Muhammed.
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.
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 ...
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.
In 1715, pirates launched a major raid on Spanish divers trying to recover gold from the sunken treasure galleon Urca de Lima near Florida. The nucleus of the pirate force was a group of English ex-privateers, all of whom were soon to be enshrined in infamy: Henry Jennings , Charles Vane , Samuel Bellamy of Whydah Gally fame, Benjamin Hornigold ...
April – Thomas Tew offloads his stolen treasure at Newport, Rhode Island. [ 2 ] November – Tew purchases new letter of marque from New York governor Benjamin Fletcher and sails on a new pirate cruise for the Indian Ocean .
Thomas Tew (died September 1695), also known as the Rhode Island Pirate, was a 17th-century English privateer-turned-pirate. He embarked on two major pirate voyages and met a bloody death on the second, and he pioneered the route which became known as the Pirate Round. Other infamous pirates in his path included Henry Avery and William Kidd.