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  2. Blackbeard - Wikipedia

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    Queen Anne's Revenge, Adventure. Edward Teach (or Thatch; c. 1680 – 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies. Little is known about his early life, but he may have been a sailor on privateer ships during Queen Anne's War ...

  3. 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.

  4. Robert Maynard - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Maynard (brother) Robert Maynard (19 September 1684 – 4 January 1751) was a British Royal Navy officer. Little is known about Maynard's early life, other than that he was born in England in 1684 and then later joined the English Navy. He was made a lieutenant in January 1707, and by 1709 was the third lieutenant on HMS Bedford.

  5. Republic of Pirates - Wikipedia

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    Republic of Pirates. The Republic of Pirates was the base and stronghold of a loose confederacy run by privateers -turned- pirates in Nassau on New Providence island in the Bahamas during the Golden Age of Piracy [1] for about twelve years from 1706 until 1718. While it was not a republic in a formal sense, it was governed by an informal pirate ...

  6. Golden Age of Piracy - Wikipedia

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    Golden Age of Piracy. 1650s–1730s. A 1920 painting of Blackbeard 's final battle against Robert Maynard in 1718. Location. North Atlantic. Indian Ocean. Pacific Ocean. The Golden Age of Piracy is a common designation for the period between the 1650s and the 1730s, when maritime piracy was a significant factor in the histories of the North ...

  7. 1717 in piracy - Wikipedia

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    April 1 – Benjamin Hornigold and a pirate named Napping capture a large armed sloop, the Bennet, out of Jamaica. [1] April 4 – At Bluefield's Bay in Jamaica, Hornigold and Napping capture the sloop Revenge carrying a load of Spanish gold. September 29 – "Gentleman Pirate" Stede Bonnet, who has traded plantation life for a pirate ship ...

  8. Battle of Cape Fear River (1718) - Wikipedia

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    3 canoes captured. The Battle of Cape Fear River, also known as the Battle of the Sandbars, was fought in September 1718 between two sloops from the Province of South Carolina led by William Rhett and a group of pirate ships under the command of Stede Bonnet. Rhett's sloops defeated the pirates in the Cape Fear River estuary which led to Bonnet ...

  9. Queen Anne's Revenge - Wikipedia

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    Queen Anne’s Revenge is featured in the mobile game Fate/Grand Order as Blackbeard's Noble Phantasm. “Queen Anne’s Revenge” is the title of a song by jazz bassist, Russell Hall, featured on his album “Black Caesar”, [86] which features various pirate-themed jazz compositions. The titular song features jazz guitar legend Mark Whitfield.