Famous Pirates in History

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Famous Pirates in History
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William Kidd (Scottish, 1645 - 1701)

• Commissioned to stop pirates
• Turned into a pirate instead
• Took Gold and treasure for East India Company
• Caught - sent to England
• Tried to hang him 3xs - tar and chains

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Edward Teach "Blackbeard" (English, 1680- 1718)

• Most famous and feared pirate
• Commanded
• 4 ship and a pirate army (300)
• Famous for
• Fighting with 2 swords
• Capturing 40 merchant ships
• Killing prisoners
• Popular with the ladies
• Royal Navy captured him and beheaded him

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Bartholomew Roberts "Black Bart" (Welsh, 1682 -
1722)

• Forced to become a pirate
• Pistol Proof best fighter and military
  tactician
• Plundered over 400 ships
• Died in Battle everyone stunned at his death

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Anne Bonny (Irish, 1700-1782)

• Young and in love married a weak poor man
• Started dating a pirate captain
• Joined his crew looking for adventure
• Dressed like a man and acted like a man
• Loved to fight and drink
• Captured and sentenced to death
• Claimed she was going to have a baby and was
  released

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Sir Francis Drake (English, 1540-1595)