Edward Teach aka Blackbeard the Pirate

However, there was a time when they faced troubles. A few heavily armed ships from the Bahamas had been sent to capture them. ("'Calico' Jack Rackham, Rob”) They were forced to leave, and they ended up being captured by a Spanish ship. ("'Calico' Jack Rackham, Rob”) Luckily though, they escaped. ("'Calico' Jack Rackham, Rob”) Unfortunately, a tragedy had happened right after. Their whole crew was attacked by the same ship once again. ("'Calico' Jack Rackham, Rob”) During the attack, Rackham and the rest of the crew stayed at the base of the ship while they left just Anne and Mary fighting. (“Minster”) This time their ship was captured, in November, 1720. ("Captain John Rackham aka 'Calico’, Pirate

Now, the film Sea Hawk can be quite deceiving unless you look at the somewhat hidden meaning behind these pirates. In the back of all of these pirates' minds, they were doing everything to supply their own self-fish needs and wishes. The pirates portrayed in the movie placed themselves on the side where they

He changes sides and personalities within the book many times, trying to benefit himself to get the treasure. Soon after everyone is aboard the Hispaniola and have found sight of the island, Silver and a group of other sailors aboard plan to rebel against Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, Jim Hawkins, Captain Smollet, and a few others on board so that they can have the treasure all to themselves. Jim hears Silver talking about his plan for the mutiny. Jim calls a meeting to tell the loyalists what’s going on. In the meeting they decide to let Silver and his crew go along the island first. The captain points out why they should let them go on shore saying first, “If they all go, why, we’ll fight the ship. If they none of them go, well, then, we hold the cabin, and God defend the right” (Stevenson 72). After the offer is given to go out and explore the island, all of the crew members involved in Silver’s plan go ashore to explore the island. Greed is leading them to want to find the treasure first and keep it for themselves. Jim went along to the island to explore as well. While on the island a fight broke out among the mutineers. Silver killed two men out of greed; he thought they were in his way

During the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries, piracy was rampant in the Atlantic, specifically in the West Indies. Piracy has existed since the earliest days of ocean travel, for a range of personal and economic reasons. However, one of the major reasons why piracy was wide spread and rampant in the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries was Great Britain’s endorsement and usage of piracy as an asset; in wars fought in the New World. Great Britain with its expanding power and conflicts with other nations would make piracy a lifestyle and lay down the foundation for the Golden Age of Piracy and eventually bring what it created to a screeching halt.

In August 1779, the French King made Jones captain of the newly named ship, Bon Homme Richard. He commanded this heavily armed vessel and four other ships and two French privateers, I which he sailed on 14 August 1779 to raid English shipping.6

These pirates captured the crew and passengers of other ships. They then enslaved these people and some people died because of this.

The brand of justice pirates toward vessels they captured was something I found fascinating. For example, on page 88, the incident involving the capture of Captain Snelgraves vessel by the pirate Thomas Cocklyn. Initially Snelgrave resisted Cocklyns takeover so as Cocklyns crew overpowers Snelgraves and is taken by the pirates. Certain that Snelgrave will be killed or beaten for resisting, Snelgraves crew comes to their captains defense thus Cocklyn sparring the respected captains life. Because of the degree of respect Snelgraves had, Cocklyn not often seeing a government captain holding such admiration from a crew offered him a new ship and profits from a captured slave ship for his return to England. This story really caught my attention because of the level of hospitality pirates show to a captain who held such respect with his own crew.

Bright sunshine lighting the rich features of the beautiful blue Caribbean sea, the water hitting against the morro of Santiago de Cuba giving Cubans a sense of protection by its multi-level stone fortress guarding the entrance to Santiago de Cuba bay. Cubans peacefully and clueless carry with their daily routine to the end of the night. Swooosh! Bam! Bam! Twelve ships with 1,300 pirates arrive at Santiago de Cuba’s bay making sure they announce themselves by firing their firearms immediately trespassing the morro showing that nothing can hold them back, little did the Cuban’s know that it was the English fleet governed by Lord Windsor and captained by Christopher Myngs.

The Atlantic pirates were after gold or booty as Disney producers portray it to be, but this wasn’t there main goal, instead the Atlantic pirate’s main goal was revenge. After several centuries of poverty and being in the bottom social rank people took to themselves to solve their economic problems by going against king and machinists. Many of these pirates either had worked for this mechanist or for the kingdom’s fleet. As stated by Dr. Marcus Rediker “Merchant seamen got a hard, close look at death: disease and accidents were commonplace in their occupation, rations were often meager and discipline was brutal… Some pirates had served in the navy where conditions aboard ship were no less harsh” (Rediker 206-207). These severe conditions were the driving force for revenge at whatever the cost maybe. The previous experience of being at sea made these pirates very knowledgeable because they also knew that the American colonies were doing their own thing. Even though they were

Black Caesar was an african pirate that was the second in command for one to the deadlies pirate that ever lived, Edward Teach aka Blackbeard. Black Caesar (Henri Caesar) was born in the mid-1760's to Haitian slaves owned by a wealthy French planter named Arnaut. He spent his childhood performing various tasks inside as a houseboy, but was later moved to the lumberyard in an effort to employ his larger physique. then he was moved to the plantations and that’s was the the time he tried to escape, ones he did but then they tried to capture him .

1. Ordinary World –the Hero’s home. A safe haven he must leave to start the journey The ordinary world is on a farm that is somewhere in Europe and it is near a village. (pg.

Jim overhears Silver attempting to convince Tom to join the mutineers; when Tom denies to join, they kill him

Oh how he missed Eden . Yet before the his eyes could feast on the girl he so missed, Westley noticed something inconceivable. A barrage of pirate vessels in the distance. Skull and crossbones flown on each ship, shrouding the sea in a deep black shadow. Suddenly, the pirate general emerged, as if this one ship pillaged time itself. “King Black Beard” It seemed his name slid off every man's tongue on Wesley's ship, as if the words were heavy ash, leaving a swell of smoke in one's mouth. Battle alarms silenced the brave soldiers, yet they were one ship vs many. Defeat was inevitable. Nothing could stop the band of marauders from destroying the ship. It seemed no one would survive. For each soldier had heard the pirates policy, NO PRISONERS. A single shot was fired, and then suddenly a clash of bullets followed. The Unsinkable was lost to the great blue

When the word pirate is mentioned, many people think of ship carrying men across the seas as they pillage other ships. While this is true to some extent there was much more to the lives of the men that were known as pirates. Pirates were mostly men from French, English or Dutch heritage, and were privateers or merchants. Many of these men were sanctioned by their government. By the Spanish they were call piratas or unsanctioned sea-raiders, and would have a heavy influence of trade in the Caribbean and on the Spanish Empire.

First of all, the Queen Anne’s Revenge was one of the most famous pirate ship. The Queen Anne’s Revenge was originally a French owned slave ship. The ship first name was “La Concorde De Nantes.” It was found in 1996. Furthermore, the ship had 26 guns, and was captured from the French merchants. Queen Anne’s Revenge was one of the most powerful ships in American waters. The name “Queen Anne’s Revenge” comes from Queen Anne, who was one of the principal actors in the War of the Spanish Succession in which Blackbeard was likely a privateer. On the other hand, the ship can store more than 300 tons (272 t) of treasure, and can hold up to 250 pirates. To sum up, the Queen Anne’s Revenge was used to sail