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| x Piracy |
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Piracy is a war-like act committed by private parties (not affiliated with any government) that engaged in acts of robbery and/or criminal violence at sea. The term can include acts committed in other major bodies of water or on a shore. It does not...
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| x Antipope John XXIII |
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Baldassarre Cossa (c. 1370 – 22 December 1419), was Antipope John XXIII during the Western Schism (1410–1415).
Baldassarre Cardinal Cossa was born in Procida (according to other sources, Ischia).
He was one of the seven cardinals who, in May 1408,...
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| x Blackbeard |
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Edward Teach or Edward Thatch (c. 1680 – November 22, 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English pirate operating in the Caribbean Sea and western Atlantic during the early 18th century, a period referred to as the Golden Age of...
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| x William Kidd |
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William "Captain" Kidd (c. 1645 – May 23, 1701) was a Scottish sailor remembered for his trial and execution for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean. Some modern historians deem his piratical reputation unjust, as there is...
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| x Francis Drake |
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Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral (1540 – 27 January 1596), was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, a renowned pirate, and politician of the Elizabethan era. Queen Elizabeth I awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581. He was second-in...
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| x Ching Shih |
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Ching Shih (c. 1785 – 1844) (simplified Chinese: 郑氏; traditional Chinese: 鄭氏; pinyin: Zhèng Shì; Cantonese: Jihng Sih; "widow of Zheng"), also known as Zheng Yi Sao (simplified Chinese: 郑一嫂; traditional Chinese: 鄭一嫂; pinyin: Zhèng Yī Sǎo; Cantonese:...
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| x Jean Lafitte |
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Jean Lafitte (ca. 1776 – ca. 1823) was a pirate and privateer in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th century. He often spelled his name Jean Laffite.
Lafitte is believed to have been born either in France or the French colony of Saint-Domingue. By...
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| x Piet Pieterszoon Hein |
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Pieter Pietersen Heyn(November 25, 1577 – June 18, 1629) was a Dutch naval officer and folk hero during the Eighty Years' War between the United Provinces and Spain.
Hein was born in Delfshaven (now part of Rotterdam), the son of a sea captain, and...
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| x Henry Morgan |
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Admiral Sir Henry Morgan (Harri Morgan in Welsh), (ca. 1635 – 25 August 1688) was a Welsh privateer, who made a name in the Caribbean. He was one of the most notorious and successful privateers from Wales, and one of the most dangerous pirates who...
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| x Thomas Cavendish |
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Sir Thomas Cavendish (or Candish) (19 September 1560, Trimley St. Martin, Suffolk, England died c. May 1592, in the North Atlantic) was known as "the Navigator" because he was the first who deliberately set out to circumnavigate the globe. While...
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| x Jean Bart |
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Jean Bart (21 October 1651 - 27 April 1702) was a French naval commander and privateer. His birth name was most probably Jan Baert. He almost certainly spoke Dutch , at that time the native language of the region.
Born in Dunkirk as the son of a...
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| x Eric of Pomerania |
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Eric of Pomerania (1381 or 1382 – 3 May 1459) was King Eric III of Norway (1389–1442) Norwegian Eirik, King Eric VII of Denmark (1396–1439), and King of Sweden (1396–1439) known there mainly as Erik av Pommern. He was the first King of the Nordic...
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| x Stenka Razin |
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Stepan (Sten'ka) Timofeyevich Razin (Russian: Степан (Стенька) Тимофеевич Разин, Russian pronunciation: [sʲtʲɪpˈɑn (sʲtʲˈenʲkə) tʲɪmɐˈfʲeɪvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈrɑzʲɪn]; 1630 – June 16 [O.S. June 6] 1671) was a Cossack leader who led a major uprising against the...
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| x Bartholomew Roberts |
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Bartholomew Roberts (born John Roberts, 17 May 1682 – 10 February 1722) was a Welsh pirate who raided shipping off the Americas and West Africa between 1719 and 1722. He was the most successful pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy, capturing far more...
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| x Gan Ning |
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Gan Ning was a military general of Sun Quan during the end of the Han Dynasty of China. He was born in Linjiang in the Ba Prefecture and took the style name of Xingba. He gained the titles of General Who Oppresses the Enemy with Ferocity and Grand...
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| x William Dampier |
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William Dampier (born August 1651, East Coker, Somerset, England — died March 1715, London) was an English buccaneer, sea captain, author and scientific observer. He was the first Englishman to explore or map parts of New Holland (Australia) and New...
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| x Paul Watson |
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Paul Franklin Watson, (born December 2, 1950) is a Canadian animal rights and environmental activist. He is the founder and president of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a direct action group devoted to marine conservation.
Watson was born in...
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| x Samuel Bellamy |
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Samuel Bellamy (c. February 23, 1689–April 27, 1717), aka "Black Sam" Bellamy, was a formidable pirate in the early eighteenth century.
Though his known career as a pirate captain lasted little more than a year, Bellamy and his crew captured more...
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| x Sextus Pompeius |
Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius, in English Sextus Pompey (67 BC-35 BC), was a Roman general from the late Republic (1st century BC). He was the last focus of opposition to the Second Triumvirate.
Sextus Pompeius was the youngest son of Pompey the Great...
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| x Eustace the Monk |
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Eustace the Monk (c. 1170 – 24 August 1217) was a mercenary and pirate, in the tradition of medieval outlaws.
Eustace was born a younger son of Baudoin Busket, a lord of the county of Boulogne. According to his biography, he went to Toledo, Spain,...
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| x Hendrik Brouwer |
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Hendrik Brouwer (spring 1581 – August 7, 1643), was a Dutch explorer, admiral, and colonial administrator both in Japan and the Dutch East Indies.
He is thought to first have sailed to the East Indies for the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in 1606....
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| x John Hawkins |
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Admiral Sir John Hawkins (also spelled as John Hawkyns) (Plymouth 1532 – 12 November, 1595) was an English shipbuilder, naval administrator and commander, merchant, navigator, and slave trader. As treasurer (1577) and controller (1589) of the Royal...
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| x Calico Jack |
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John Rackham (December 21, 1682 – November 18, 1720 in Jamaica) (often spelled Rackam or Rackum in contemporary documentation), known also as Calico Jack, was an English pirate captain during the early 18th century. His nickname was derived from the...
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| x Mary Read |
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Mary Read (unknown – 1721) was an English pirate. She is chiefly remembered as one of only two women (her comrade, Anne Bonny, was the other) known to have been convicted of piracy during the early 18th century, at the height of the Golden Age of...
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| x Christopher Condent |
Christopher Condent (died 1770) was an English pirate who led the return to the Eastern Seas. He and his crew fled New Providence in 1718, when Woodes Rogers became governor of the island.
On a trip across the Atlantic Ocean, an Indian member of the...
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| x Peter Easton |
Peter Easton (c. 1570 – 1620 or after) was a pirate in the early 17th century who operated along the Newfoundland coastline between Harbour Grace and Ferryland from 1611 to 1614. Perhaps one of the most successful of all pirates he controlled such...
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| x Benjamin Hornigold |
Captain Benjamin Hornigold (died 1719) was an English pirate during the early 18th century. His career as a pirate lasted from 1715 to 1718, after which he turned pirate hunter and pursued his former allies on behalf of the Governor of the Bahamas....
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| x Pier Gerlofs Donia |
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Pier Gerlofs Donia (c.1480 – 1520) was a Frisian warrior, pirate, and rebel. He is best known by his West Frisian nickname "Grutte Pier" ("Big Pier" in the Old Frisian spelling), or by the Dutch translations "Grote Pier" and "Lange Pier", or, in...
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| x Murat Rais |
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Murat Reis the Elder (Turkish: Koca Murat Reis) was a Turkish privateer and Ottoman admiral.
He was born in Rhodes in the early 16th century and died near the coast of Cyprus in 1609.
Murat Reis was born in Rhodes at the Aegean Sea, in the early...
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| x Uluj Ali |
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Uluj Ali (Turkish: Uluç Ali Reis, later Uluç Ali Paşa and finally Kılıç Ali Paşa; born Giovanni Dionigi Galeni; 1519 - 21 June 1587) was a Muslim corsair of Italian origin, who later became an Ottoman admiral (Reis) and Chief Admiral (Kaptan-ı Derya...
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| x James Lancaster |
Sir James Lancaster was a prominent Elizabethan trader and privateer.
Lancaster came from Basingstoke in Hampshire. In his early life, he was a soldier and a trader in Portugal. On the 10th of April 1591 he started from Plymouth, with Raymond and...
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| x Robert Culliford |
Robert Culliford (c. 1666 - ?) was an English pirate from Cornwall who is best remembered for repeatedly checking the designs of Captain William Kidd.
Culliford and Kidd first met as shipmates aboard the French privateer Sainte Rose in 1689; there...
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| x Hippolyte de Bouchard |
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Hippolyte de Bouchard, or Hipólito de Bouchard (January 15, 1780, or 1783– January 4, 1843), was a French and Argentine sailor and corsair who fought for Argentina, Chile, and Peru. During his first campaign as an Argentine corsair he attacked the...
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| x Awilda |
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Awilda was the daughter of a 5th century Scandinavian king, who had arranged a marriage for her to Alf, the crown prince of Denmark. However, Awilda obstinately refused her father's choice. She and some of her female friends dressed like sailors and...
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| x Olivier van Noort |
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Olivier van Noort (1558 - 22 February 1627) was the first Dutchman to circumnavigate the world.
Olivier van Noort was born in 1558 in Utrecht. He left Rotterdam on 2 July 1598 with four ships and a plan to attack Spanish possessions in the Pacific...
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| x Alexandre Exquemelin |
Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin (also spelled Esquemeling, Exquemeling, or Oexmelin) (c. 1645-1707) was a French writer most known as the author of one of the most important sourcebooks of seventeenth century piracy, first published in Dutch as De...
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| x Anne Bonny |
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Anne Bonny (March 8, 1700 – possibly April 25, 1782) was an Irish American pirate who plied her trade in the Caribbean.
Much of what is known about Anne Bonny is based on Captain Charles Johnson's A General History of the Pyrates. Official records...
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| x Thomas Tew |
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Thomas Tew (?-1695), also known as the Rhode Island Pirate, was a 17th century English privateer-turned-pirate. Although he embarked on only two major piratical voyages, and met a bloody death on the latter journey, Tew pioneered the route which...
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| x Andrew Barton |
Sir Andrew Christian Barton The Great (c. 1466 – August 2, 1511) served as High Admiral of Scotland. Notorious in England and Portugal as a 'pirate', Barton was a seaman who operated under the aegis of a letter of marque on behalf of the Scottish...
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| x Woodes Rogers |
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Woodes Rogers (ca. 1679 – 15 July 1732) was an English sea captain, privateer, and, later, the first Royal Governor of the Bahamas. He is known as the captain of the vessel that rescued the marooned Alexander Selkirk, whose plight is generally...
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| x Cheung Po Tsai |
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Cheung Po Tsai (Cantonese, Jēung Bóu Jái in Yale transcription) or Chang Pao Tsai (in Wade-Giles) (traditional Chinese: 張保仔; simplified Chinese: 张保仔; pinyin: Zhāng Bǎozǎi) was a 19th century Chinese pirate. He was also known as Cheung Po/Chang Pao...
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| x Stede Bonnet |
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Stede Bonnet (c. 1688 – December 10, 1718) was an early 18th-century Barbadian pirate, sometimes called "the gentleman pirate" because he was a moderately wealthy landowner before turning to a life of crime. Bonnet was born into a wealthy English...
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| x Wimund |
Wimund was a bishop who became a sea-faring war-lord adventurer in the years after 1147. His story is passed down to us by 12th century English historian William of Newburgh in his Historia rerum anglicarum, Book I, Chapter 24 entitled "Of bishop...
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| x Cheng I |
Zheng Yi (鄭一, pinyin: Zhèng Yī, Cantonese: Jihng Yāt; d. 1807, also romanised as Cheng I) was a pirate along the Chinese coast during the 19th century. He and his wife Ching Shih captured the fifteen year old fisherboy Cheung Po Tsai and legend has...
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| x William Fly |
Captain William Fly (died July 12, 1726) was an English pirate who raided New England shipping until he was captured by some of the crew of a seized ship. He was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts. Reportedly, Fly approached the hanging with complete...
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| x Zheng Jing |
Zheng Jing (traditional Chinese: 鄭經; pinyin: Zhèng Jīng; Wade-Giles: Cheng Ching) (1642 - 1681) was a seventeenth century Chinese warlord and Ming Dynasty loyalist. He was the eldest son of Koxinga and grandson of pirate-merchant Zheng Zhilong....
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| x John Ward |
John Ward or Birdy (c. 1553-1622), also known as Jack Ward and under his Muslim name Yusuf Reis, was a notorious English pirate around the turn of the 17th century who later became a Barbary Corsair operating out of Tunis during the early 1600s.
Not...
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| x William Wright |
William Wright (fl. 1675-1682) was an English privateer in French service and later buccaneer who raided Spanish towns in the late 1600s.
Little is known of William Wright before he settled in French Hispaniola in the mid 1670s. Accepting a French...
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| x Richard Hawkins |
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Admiral Sir Richard Hawkins or Hawkyns (c. 1562 - April 17, 1622) was a 17th century English seaman, explorer and Elizabethan "Sea Dog",and was the only son of Admiral Sir John Hawkins by his first marriage.
He was from his earliest days familiar...
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| x Jørgen Jørgensen |
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Jørgen Jørgensen (29 March 1780, Copenhagen, Denmark – 20 January 1841, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia) was a Danish adventurer during the Age of Revolution. He sailed to Iceland in 1809 and declared the country independent from Denmark and proclaimed...
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| x Baltazar de Cordes |
Baltazar de Cordes (1500s–1600s), the brother of Simon de Cordez, was a Dutch corsair who fought against the Spanish during the early 17th Century.
Born in the Netherlands sometime around the mid 1500s, Baltazar de Cordes began sailing for the...
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| x Nathaniel Gordon |
Nathaniel Gordon (c. 1834 – February 21, 1862) was the only American slave trader to be tried, convicted, and executed "for being engaged in the Slave Trade" in accordance with the Piracy Law of 1820.
Gordon was born in Portland, Maine. He loaded...
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| x Abraham Blauvelt |
Abraham Blauvelt (16??-1663?) was a Dutch privateer and explorer mapping much of Central America in the 1630s, after whom both the Bluefield River and the neighboring town of Bluefields, Nicaragua were named.
One of the last of the Dutch corsairs of...
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| x Benito de Soto |
Benito Soto Aboal (April 22, 1805, Pontevedra - January 25, 1830, Gibraltar) was a Galician pirate, and captain of the Burla Negra ("Black Joke" in English).
Benito de Soto was the most notorious of the last generation of pirates to plunder shipping...
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| x Demetrius of Pharos |
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Demetrius of Pharos (also Pharus) betrayed Corcyra to Rome, in 229 BC, during the First Illyrian War, after which he ruled a portion of the Illyrian Adriatic coast. He was expelled from Illyria by Rome after the Second Illyrian War and became a...
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| x Dominique You |
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Dominique You (1775-1830) was a privateer and soldier.
Born in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (which is now Haiti) in 1775, You joined the army of Revolutionary France as an artillerist. He served in the French Republic's artillery corp. In...
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| x Anicetus |
Anicetus was the leader of an unsuccessful anti-Roman uprising in Pontus in 69. Formerly a freedman of King Polemon II of Pontus, Anicetus commanded the royal fleet until Pontus was converted into a Roman province under Emperor Nero in 63. During...
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| x Christopher Myngs |
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Sir Christopher Myngs (1625–1666), English admiral and pirate, came of a Norfolk family. Pepys' story of his humble birth, in explanation of his popularity, is said to be erroneous. His name is often given as Mings.
The date of Myngs's birth is...
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| x Gentius |
Gentius (ruled 180–168 BC) of the Ardiaei was an Illyrian king. He was the son of the Illyrian king Pleuratus II, of the tribe of the Labeates. His kingdom had his capital at Scodra.
In 180 BC the Dalmatians declared themselves independent from his...
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| x Jean Ango |
Jean Ango (1480-1551) was a French ship-owner who provided ships to Francis I for exploration of the globe. A native of Dieppe, Ango took over his father's business, and ventured into the spice trade with Africa and India. In doing this, he was one...
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