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143 relations: A General History of the Pyrates, Affidavit, Alexander Spotswood, Anguilla, Anne Bonny, Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic slave trade, Attorney General of Virginia, Bartholomew Roberts, Bath, North Carolina, Beaufort, North Carolina, Belize, Benjamin Hornigold, Bequia, Bermuda, Black Sails (TV series), Blackbeard (2005 film), Blackbeard (2006 film), Blackbeard the Pirate, Blackbeard's Ghost, Board of Trade, Boatswain, Bowsprit, Brigantine, Bristol, British Empire, Broadside, Calico Jack, Cape Charles, Virginia, Cape Fear River, Captain Charles Johnson, Captain Grinnaway, Careening, Charles Eden (politician), Charles Johnson (writer), Charles Rivington, Charles Vane, Charleston Bar, Charleston, South Carolina, Commodore (rank), Credulity, Crossbones (TV series), Crown colony, Daniel Defoe, David Herriot, Delaware Bay, Depth sounding, Dublin, Elizabeth I of England, Flintlock, ..., Florida, Francis Drake, George I of Great Britain, Gibbeting, Golden Age of Piracy, Governor of Virginia, Grand Cayman, Guard ship, Gulf of Honduras, Hallmark Channel, Havana, Henry Every, Henry Jennings, Hispaniola, Hogshead, House of Burgesses, Hugh Drysdale, Indigo dye, Israel Hands, Jack Sparrow, Jamaica, James River, John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, John Malkovich, Julian calendar, Kecoughtan, Virginia, League (unit), Lieutenant Richards (pirate), Madeira, Madeira wine, Man-of-war, Mary Ormond, Mary Read, Mast (sailing), Musket, Nassau, Bahamas, New Providence, North Carolina Maritime Museum, Ocracoke Inlet, Ocracoke, North Carolina, Pamlico River, PBS, Peter Leeson, Philadelphia, Pilot boat, Piracy, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Privateer, Proprietary colony, Province of Carolina, Province of North Carolina, Province of South Carolina, Queen Anne's Revenge, Queen Anne's War, Ray Stevenson, Republic of Pirates, Robert Maynard, Robert Walpole, Royal Navy, Saint Kitts, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Saint Vincent (Antilles), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint-Malo, Samaná Bay, Scuttling, Sea captain, Secrets of the Dead, Sheet (sailing), Shoal, Sint Eustatius, Slave ship, Sloop, Slow match, Stede Bonnet, Stern, Straits of Florida, The Bahamas, The Battery (Charleston), Thirteen Colonies, Topsail Island, Treasure Island, Treaty of Utrecht, Union Jack, Vice admiralty court, War of the Quadruple Alliance, War of the Spanish Succession, West Indies, William III of England, William Kidd, Williamsburg, Virginia, Woodes Rogers, 1715 Treasure Fleet. Expand index (93 more) »
A General History of the Pyrates
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book published in Britain containing biographies of contemporary pirates, Introduction and commentary by David Cordingly.
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Affidavit
An affidavit is a written sworn statement of fact voluntarily made by an affiant or deponent under an oath or affirmation administered by a person authorized to do so by law.
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Alexander Spotswood
Alexander Spotswood (1676 – 6 June 1740) was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the British Army and a noted Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.
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Anguilla
Anguilla is a British overseas territory in the Caribbean.
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Anne Bonny
Anne Bonny (unknown, possibly 1697 – unknown, possibly April 1782) was an Irish pirate operating in the Caribbean, and one of the most famous female pirates of all time.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.
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Atlantic slave trade
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas.
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Attorney General of Virginia
The Attorney General of Virginia is an elected constitutional position that holds an executive office in the government of Virginia.
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Bartholomew Roberts
Bartholomew Roberts (17 May 1682 – 10 February 1722), born John Roberts, was a Welsh pirate who raided ships off the Americas and West Africa between 1719 and 1722.
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Bath, North Carolina
Bath is a town in Beaufort County, North Carolina, United States.
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Beaufort, North Carolina
Beaufort is a town in and the county seat of Carteret County, North Carolina, United States.
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Belize
Belize, formerly British Honduras, is an independent Commonwealth realm on the eastern coast of Central America.
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Benjamin Hornigold
Captain Benjamin Hornigold (1680–1719) was an 18th-century English pirate who operated during the tail end of the Golden Age of Piracy.
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Bequia
Bequia is the second largest island in the Grenadines at (after Carriacou, a dependency of Grenada).
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Bermuda
Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean.
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Black Sails (TV series)
Black Sails is an American historical adventure television series set on New Providence Island and a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island.
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Blackbeard (2005 film)
Blackbeard: Terror at Sea, a mini-series by the BBC, starring James Purefoy as Blackbeard.
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Blackbeard (2006 film)
Blackbeard is a 2006 adventure-drama miniseries based on the pirate Blackbeard, directed by Kevin Connor from a screenplay written by Bryce Zabel.
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Blackbeard the Pirate
Blackbeard the Pirate is a 1952 Technicolor adventure film made by RKO.
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Blackbeard's Ghost
Blackbeard's Ghost is a 1968 American-Italian fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions, starring Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette and directed by Robert Stevenson.
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Board of Trade
The Board of Trade is a British government department concerned with commerce and industry, currently within the Department for International Trade.
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Boatswain
A boatswain (formerly and dialectally also), bo's'n, bos'n, or bosun, also known as a Petty Officer or a qualified member of the deck department, is the seniormost rate of the deck department and is responsible for the components of a ship's hull.
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Bowsprit
The bowsprit of a sailing vessel is a spar extending forward from the vessel's prow.
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Brigantine
A brigantine was a two-masted sailing vessel with a fully square rigged foremast and at least two sails on the main mast: a square topsail and a gaff sail mainsail (behind the mast).
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Bristol
Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
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Broadside
A broadside is the side of a ship, the battery of cannon on one side of a warship; or their coordinated fire in naval warfare.
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Calico Jack
John Rackham (26 December 1682 – 18 November 1720), commonly known as Calico Jack, was an English pirate captain operating in the Bahamas and in Cuba during the early 18th century.
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Cape Charles, Virginia
Cape Charles is a town / municipal corporation in Northampton County, Virginia, United States.
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Cape Fear River
The Cape Fear River is a long blackwater river in east central North Carolina in the United States.
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Captain Charles Johnson
Captain Charles Johnson was the British author of the 1724 book A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates, whose identity remains a mystery.
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Captain Grinnaway
Captain Grinnaway (fl 1718, also known as Greenway) was a pirate from Bermuda, best known for being briefly and indirectly involved with Edward Teach (or Thatch, alias Blackbeard).
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Careening
Careening (also known as "heaving down") is the practice of grounding a sailing vessel at high tide in order to expose one side of its hull for maintenance and repairs below the water line when the tide goes out.
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Charles Eden (politician)
Charles Eden (1673 – March 26, 1722) was a British administrator who served as the second Governor of North Carolina from 1713 until his death in 1722.
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Charles Johnson (writer)
Charles Johnson (1679 – 11 March 1748) was an English playwright, tavern keeper, and enemy of Alexander Pope's.
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Charles Rivington
Charles Rivington (1688 – 22 February 1742) was a British publisher.
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Charles Vane
Charles Vane (1680 – 29 March 1721) was an English pirate who preyed upon English and French ships.
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Charleston Bar
Charleston Bar is a series of submerged shoals lying about eight miles southeast of Charleston, South Carolina, United States.
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Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston is the oldest and largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston–Summerville Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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Commodore (rank)
Commodore is a naval rank used in many navies that is superior to a navy captain, but below a rear admiral.
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Credulity
Credulity is a state of willingness to believe in one or many people or things in the absence of reasonable proof or knowledge.
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Crossbones (TV series)
Crossbones is an American television series that aired on the NBC network from May 30 to August 2, 2014.
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Crown colony
Crown colony, dependent territory and royal colony are terms used to describe the administration of United Kingdom overseas territories that are controlled by the British Government.
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Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe (13 September 1660 - 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy.
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David Herriot
David Herriot (died 1718, occasionally Herriott) was a ship’s master and pirate best known for serving under Blackbeard and Stede Bonnet.
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Delaware Bay
Delaware Bay is the estuary outlet of the Delaware River on the Northeast seaboard of the United States.
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Depth sounding
Depth sounding refers to the act of measuring depth.
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Dublin
Dublin is the capital of and largest city in Ireland.
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Elizabeth I of England
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603.
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Flintlock
Flintlock is a general term for any firearm that uses a flint striking ignition mechanism.
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Florida
Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.
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Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake (– 28 January 1596) was an English sea captain, privateer, slave trader, naval officer and explorer of the Elizabethan era.
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George I of Great Britain
George I (George Louis; Georg Ludwig; 28 May 1660 – 11 June 1727) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 and ruler of the Duchy and Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) in the Holy Roman Empire from 1698 until his death.
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Gibbeting
A gibbet is any instrument of public execution (including guillotine, executioner's block, impalement stake, hanging gallows, or related scaffold), but gibbeting refers to the use of a gallows-type structure from which the dead or dying bodies of criminals were hung on public display to deter other existing or potential criminals.
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Golden Age of Piracy
The Golden Age of Piracy is a common designation given to usually one or more outbursts of piracy in the maritime history of the early modern period.
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Governor of Virginia
The Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia serves as the chief executive of the Commonwealth of Virginia for a four-year term.
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Grand Cayman
Grand Cayman is the largest of the three Cayman Islands and the location of the territory's capital, George Town.
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Guard ship
A guard ship is a warship assigned as a stationary guard in a port or harbour, as opposed to a coastal patrol boat which serves its protective role at sea.
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Gulf of Honduras
The Gulf or Bay of Honduras is a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea, indenting the coasts of Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras.
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Hallmark Channel
The Hallmark Channel is an American cable and satellite television network that is owned by Crown Media Holdings, Inc., which is owned by Hallmark Cards, Inc.
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Havana
Havana (Spanish: La Habana) is the capital city, largest city, province, major port, and leading commercial center of Cuba.
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Henry Every
Henry Every, also Avery or Evory, (23 August 1659 – time of death uncertain, possibly 1699) sometimes erroneously given as Jack Avery or John Avery, was an English pirate who operated in the Atlantic and Indian oceans in the mid-1690s.
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Henry Jennings
Henry Jennings was an 18th-century English privateer from the colony of Bermuda, who served primarily during the War of the Spanish Succession and later served as leader of the pirate haven or 'republic' of New Providence.
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Hispaniola
Hispaniola (Spanish: La Española; Latin and French: Hispaniola; Haitian Creole: Ispayola; Taíno: Haiti) is an island in the Caribbean island group, the Greater Antilles.
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Hogshead
A hogshead (abbreviated "Hhd", plural "Hhds") is a large cask of liquid (or, less often, of a food commodity).
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House of Burgesses
The Virginia House of Burgesses was formed in 1642 by the General Assembly at the suggestion of then-Governor William Berkeley.
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Hugh Drysdale
Colonel Hugh Drysdale (died 22 July 1726) was a British governor of colonial Virginia.
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Indigo dye
Indigo dye is an organic compound with a distinctive blue color (see indigo).
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Israel Hands
Israel Hands was an 18th-century pirate, also known as Basilica Hands.
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Jack Sparrow
Captain Jack Sparrow is a fictional character in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series.
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Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.
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James River
The James River is a river in the U.S. state of Virginia.
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John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville
John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, 7th Seigneur of Sark, (22 April 1690 – 2 January 1763), commonly known by his earlier title Lord Carteret, was a British statesman and Lord President of the Council from 1751 to 1763; he worked extremely closely with the Prime Minister of the country, Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, in order to manage the various factions of the Government.
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John Malkovich
John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor, director, producer and fashion designer.
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Julian calendar
The Julian calendar, proposed by Julius Caesar in 46 BC (708 AUC), was a reform of the Roman calendar.
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Kecoughtan, Virginia
Kecoughtan in Virginia was originally named Kikotan (also spelled Kiccowtan, Kikowtan etc.), the name of the Algonquian Native Americans living there when the English colonists arrived in the Hampton Roads area in 1607.
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League (unit)
A league is a unit of length.
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Lieutenant Richards (pirate)
Lieutenant Richards (fl. 1718, first name unknown, possibly Thomas) was a pirate active in the Caribbean and off the Carolinas.
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Madeira
Madeira is a Portuguese archipelago situated in the north Atlantic Ocean, southwest of Portugal.
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Madeira wine
Madeira is a fortified wine made in the Portuguese Madeira Islands, off the coast of Africa.
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Man-of-war
The man-of-war (pl. men-of-war; also man of war, man-o'-war, man o' war, or simply man) was a British Royal Navy expression for a powerful warship or frigate from the 16th to the 19th century.
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Mary Ormond
Mary Ormond or Ormand (born c. 1702, died c. 1759) was the wife of the notorious English pirate Blackbeard.
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Mary Read
Mary Read (1685–1721), also known as Mark Read, was an English pirate.
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Mast (sailing)
The mast of a sailing vessel is a tall spar, or arrangement of spars, erected more or less vertically on the centre-line of a ship or boat.
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Musket
A musket is a muzzle-loaded, smoothbore long gun that appeared in early 16th century Europe, at first as a heavier variant of the arquebus, capable of penetrating heavy armor.
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Nassau, Bahamas
Nassau is the capital and commercial centre of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.
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New Providence
New Providence is the most populous island in The Bahamas, containing more than 70% of the total population.
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North Carolina Maritime Museum
The North Carolina Maritime Museum is a system of regional museums within the North Carolina Museum of History, which is turn part of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
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Ocracoke Inlet
Ocracoke Inlet, from the North Carolina Collection's website at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Ocracoke, North Carolina
Ocracoke, from the North Carolina Collection website at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Pamlico River
The Pamlico, from the North Carolina Collection's website at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.
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Peter Leeson
Peter T. Leeson (born July 29, 1979) is the Duncan Black Professor of Economics and Law at George Mason University.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.
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Pilot boat
A pilot boat is a type of boat used to transport maritime pilots between land and the inbound or outbound ships that they are piloting.
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Piracy
Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable items or properties.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a 2003 American fantasy swashbuckler film directed by Gore Verbinski and the first film in the ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' film series.
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Privateer
A privateer is a private person or ship that engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war.
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Proprietary colony
A proprietary colony was a type of British colony mostly in North America and the Caribbean in the 17th century.
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Province of Carolina
The Province of Carolina was an English and later a British colony of North America.
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Province of North Carolina
For history prior to 1712, see Province of Carolina. King Charles II of England granted the Carolina charter in 1663 for land south of Virginia Colony and north of Spanish Florida.
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Province of South Carolina
The Province of South Carolina (also known as the South Carolina Colony) was originally part of the Province of Carolina in British America, which was chartered by eight Lords Proprietor in 1663.
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Queen Anne's Revenge
Queen Anne's Revenge was an early-18th-century frigate, most famously used as a flagship by the pirate Blackbeard (Edward Teach).
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Queen Anne's War
Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) was the North American theater of the War of the Spanish Succession, as known in the British colonies, and the second in a series of French and Indian Wars fought between France and England in North America for control of the continent.
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Ray Stevenson
George Raymond Stevenson (born 25 May 1964) is a Northern Irish-born English actor.
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Republic of Pirates
The Republic of Pirates is the nomenclature for the base or stronghold run by privateers-turned-pirates in Nassau on New Providence island in the Bahamas for about eleven years from 1706 until 1718.
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Robert Maynard
Robert Maynard (born 19 September 1684 – 4 January 1751) was a lieutenant and later captain in the Royal Navy.
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Robert Walpole
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), known before 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British statesman who is generally regarded as the de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.
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Saint Kitts
Saint Kitts, also known more formally as Saint Christopher Island, is an island in the West Indies.
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Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Saint Thomas (Santo Tomás; Sint-Thomas; Sankt Thomas) is one of the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea and, together with Saint John, Water Island and Saint Croix, form a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States.
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Saint Vincent (Antilles)
Saint Vincent is a volcanic island in the Caribbean.
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a sovereign state in the Lesser Antilles island arc, in the southern portion of the Windward Islands, which lies in the West Indies at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean.
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Saint-Malo
Saint-Malo (Gallo: Saent-Malô) is a historic French port in Brittany on the Channel coast.
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Samaná Bay
Samaná Bay is a bay in the eastern Dominican Republic.
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Scuttling
Scuttling is the deliberate sinking of a ship by allowing water to flow into the hull.
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Sea captain
A sea captain, ship's captain, captain, master, or shipmaster, is a high-grade licensed mariner in ultimate command of the merchant vessel.
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Secrets of the Dead
Secrets of the Dead, produced by Thirteen/WNET New York, is an ongoing PBS television series which began in 2000.
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Sheet (sailing)
In sailing, a sheet is a line (rope, cable or chain) used to control the movable corner(s) (clews) of a sail.
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Shoal
In oceanography, geomorphology, and earth sciences, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material, and rises from the bed of a body of water to near the surface.
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Sint Eustatius
Sint Eustatius, also known affectionately to the locals as Statia,Tuchman, Barbara W. The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution New York: Ballantine Books, 1988.
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Slave ship
Slave ships were large cargo ships specially converted for the purpose of transporting slaves.
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Sloop
A sloop (from Dutch sloep, in turn from French chaloupe) is a sailing boat with a single mast and a fore-and-aft rig.
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Slow match
Slow match, slowmatch or match cord is the slow-burning cord or twine fuse used by early gunpowder musketeers, artillerymen, and soldiers to ignite matchlock muskets, cannons, shells, and petards.
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Stede Bonnet
Stede Bonnet (1688 – 10 December 1718) was an early eighteenth-century Barbadian pirate, sometimes called "The Gentleman Pirate" because he was a moderately wealthy landowner before turning to a life of crime.
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Stern
The stern is the back or aft-most part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail.
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Straits of Florida
The Straits of Florida, Florida Straits, or Florida Strait (Estrecho de Florida) is a strait located south-southeast of the North American mainland, generally accepted to be between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, and between the Florida Keys (U.S.) and Cuba.
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The Bahamas
The Bahamas, known officially as the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic state within the Lucayan Archipelago.
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The Battery (Charleston)
The Battery is a landmark defensive seawall and promenade in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Thirteen Colonies
The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the east coast of North America founded in the 17th and 18th centuries that declared independence in 1776 and formed the United States of America.
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Topsail Island
Topsail Island (TOP-sill) is a 26-mile (41.8 km) long barrier island off the coast of North Carolina, roughly equidistant between the barrier islands of the Crystal Coast and the beaches of the Cape Fear region, lying south of Jacksonville, North Carolina and Camp Lejeune.
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Treasure Island
Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold".
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Treaty of Utrecht
The Treaty of Utrecht, which established the Peace of Utrecht, is a series of individual peace treaties, rather than a single document, signed by the belligerents in the War of the Spanish Succession, in the Dutch city of Utrecht in March and April 1713.
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Union Jack
The Union Jack, or Union Flag, is the national flag of the United Kingdom.
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Vice admiralty court
Vice Admiralty Courts were juryless courts located in British colonies that were granted jurisdiction over local legal matters related to maritime activities, such as disputes between merchants and seamen.
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War of the Quadruple Alliance
The War of the Quadruple Alliance (1717–1720) was a result of the ambitions of Bourbon King Philip V of Spain, his wife, Elisabeth Farnese, and his chief minister Giulio Alberoni to retake territories in Italy lost to the Habsburgs in Vienna, and perhaps even to claim the French throne.
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War of the Spanish Succession
The War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) was a European conflict of the early 18th century, triggered by the death of the childless Charles II of Spain in November 1700.
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West Indies
The West Indies or the Caribbean Basin is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean in the Caribbean that includes the island countries and surrounding waters of three major archipelagoes: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago.
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William III of England
William III (Willem; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), also widely known as William of Orange, was sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Gelderland and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from 1672 and King of England, Ireland and Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702.
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William Kidd
William Kidd, also Captain William Kidd or simply Captain Kidd (c.1654 – 23 May 1701), was a Scottish sailor who was tried and executed for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean.
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Williamsburg, Virginia
Williamsburg is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Woodes Rogers
Woodes Rogers (c. 1679 – 15 July 1732) was an English sea captain and privateer and, later, the first Royal Governor of the Bahamas.
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1715 Treasure Fleet
The 1715 Treasure Fleet was a Spanish treasure fleet returning from the New World to Spain.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbeard
