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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was an American printer, writer, scientist, inventor, and diplomat, often regarded as a Founding Father of the United States. He rose to prominence as editor of The Pennsylvania Gazette and author of Poor Richard's...

Captain Benjamin Hornigold was a British pirate active in the Caribbean and North Atlantic from 1716 to 1717. Hornigold’s greatest claim to fame (or infamy) is that he taught the pirating ropes to Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard (d. 1718). Giving...

Oil on slate painting by Benjamin West, c.1816. From the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

A c. 1767 oil-on-canvas portrait by David Martin of Benjamin Franklin (1706-90). This portrait depicts Franklin as a scholarly figure of the Enlightenment with a bust of Isaac Newton gazing at him. The portrait was commissioned by Robert...

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), statesman and signatory of the Declaration of Independence, oil on canvas portrait by Joseph-Siffred Duplessis, painted in Paris, c. 1785. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Patrick Lyster as the English pirate Captain Benjamin Hornigold (d. 1719) in the TV series Black Sails. © 2014 Starz

"Captain Benjamin Church" by an unknown artist, c. 1675 CE. Church was the famous New England military officer who led troops in King Philip's War, King William's War, and Queen Anne's War. By an unknown artist, circa 1675. (New York Public...

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin Bache, a grandson of Benjamin Franklin and the editor of the Philadelphia Aurora, a partisan newspaper supporting the Democratic-Republican Party. Bache was arrested under the Alien and Sedition Acts and died...

Portrait of Benjamin Lincoln, a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (no relation to Abraham Lincoln, 16th US president). Portrait by Charles Willson Peale, October 1784. Independence National Historical...

The title page of Ben Jonson's works, The Works of Benjamin Jonson, published in 1616.