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  2. Capture of the sloop Ranger - Wikipedia

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    The capture of the sloop Ranger was a naval battle which occurred on June 10, 1723 near Block Island in the Atlantic Ocean. Two pirate ships under the command of Englishmen Edward Low and Charles Harris attacked HMS Greyhound , a post ship of the British Royal Navy which they mistook for a civilian whaler .

  3. 1720 in piracy - Wikipedia

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    October - Pirates under Rackham's leadership ransack several vessels off northern Jamaica. October - Rackham and his crew are captured by a commissioned sloop commanded by Jonathan Barnet. After the William's boom is damaged, the surprised pirates make no resistance. November - Rackham and his crew are tried, sentenced and hanged. [1]

  4. Piracy in the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    Puzzle Pirates; Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales and Age of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned Ships, both Age of Pirates games are for PC. Both games are no longer supported by their developers, support and fixes for these games can be found at piratesahoy.net and are created by experienced mod developers. Tropico 2, a video game. The player is a ...

  5. 13 Famous Pirates Who Ruled The High Seas - AOL

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    When someone mentions pirates, images of peg legs, parrots, grand pirate ships, and buried treasure permeate our minds. ... In December 1721, on the way to Honduras on a merchant sloop, Low and ...

  6. William Lewis (pirate) - Wikipedia

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    Lewis beats the cowardly master of a captured sloop who surrendered too easily. William Lewis (fl. 1687?) was a pirate supposedly active in the Caribbean, off the American east coast, and off the west coast of Africa in the 18th century. He was known for sparing his victims and for being killed after announcing he had made a pact with the Devil.

  7. Charles Vane - Wikipedia

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    On 23 February 1718, Captain Vincent Pearse arrived at Nassau in HMS Phoenix, in an attempt to get the pirates on the island to surrender. [4] Vane was captured along with his sloop, the Lark. Benjamin Hornigold, Thomas Nichols, and others urged Pearse to release Vane as a show of good faith, which he did.

  8. Capture of the sloop Anne - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish government then sent military personnel to block all the roads and plains surrounding the area. Two of the search groups believed that the pirates would have to pass through a certain road in order to escape and planned to ambush them there. The pirates reached the location at 10:30 p.m. and tried to escape, but were intercepted.

  9. Shiver me timbers: Puzzle Pirates to plunder iPad, Android ...

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    The studio is said to be optimizing Puzzle Pirates specifically for tablet play rather than simply port the game over with touch controls, which is comforting. Because of this, Three Rings hopes ...