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French female pirates (3 P) French privateers (1 C, 60 P) Pages in category "French pirates" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total.
A French-Breton pirate. She raided French towns and ships in the English Channel. John Crabbe: d. 1352: 1305–1332 Flanders: Flemish pirate known for his successful use of a ship-mounted catapult. Once won the favor of Robert the Bruce and acted as a naval officer for England during the Hundred Years' War (after being captured by King Edward III.)
Jean Lafitte (c. 1780 – c. 1823) was a French pirate and privateer who operated in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th century. He and his older brother Pierre spelled their last name Laffite, but English language documents of the time used "Lafitte". This has become the common spelling in the United States, including places named after him.
Image credits: Culture Club / Getty Images #3 Blackbeard. Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard, is perhaps one of history’s most fearsome and famous pirates. Unsurprisingly, Teach sported a braided ...
Frontispiece to 1st edition of Buccaneers of America, 1678. Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin (also spelled Esquemeling, Exquemeling, or Oexmelin) (c. 1645–1707) was a French, Dutch, or Flemish writer best known as the author of one of the most important sourcebooks of 17th-century piracy, first published in Dutch as De Americaensche Zee-Roovers, in Amsterdam, by Jan ten Hoorn, in 1678.
Gravestone traditionally attributed to La Buse (Olivier Levasseur) in Saint-Paul, Réunion. Olivier Levasseur (1688, 1689, or 1690 – 7 July 1730), was a French pirate, nicknamed La Buse ("The Buzzard") or La Bouche ("The Mouth") in his early days for the speed and ruthlessness with which he always attacked his enemies as well as his ability to verbally attack his opponents.
Most pirates in this era were of Welsh, English, Dutch, Irish, and French origin. Many pirates came from poorer urban areas in search of a way to make money and of reprieve. London in particular was known for high unemployment, crowding, and poverty which drove people to piracy. Piracy also offered power and quick riches. [citation needed]
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