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An illustration by Howard Pyle (1853-1911) showing the notorious pirate Blackbeard's fight to the death in 1718. From an original oil painting by Pyle. (The illustration first appeared in Pyle, Howard (1894), Jack Ballister's Fortunes, The...

An illustration of the English pirate Charles Vane, active in the Caribbean and off the east coast of North America in the Golden Age of Piracy. Vane was tried and hanged in Jamaica in 1720. (From an early edition of A General History of...

An 18th-century engraving showing the pirate Edward England and his ship Fancy attacking the East India Company ship Cassandra in 1720.

A late-19th century cigarette card showing the British pirate Captain Samuel Bellamy (d. 1717). Bellamy died when his ship the Whydah was wrecked in a storm off Cape Cod. Produced by Allen & Ginter. Lithographer: George S. Harris & Sons...

A 17th-century illustration of the Dutch privateer and pirate Roche Brasiliano (active 1650s to 1660s). From an early edition of Alexander Exquemelin’s Buccaneers of America, first published in Dutch in 1678.

A late-19th century cigarette card showing the notorious English pirate Edward Low who was active in the Caribbean and eastern Atlantic from 1721 to 1724 during the Golden Age of Piracy (1690-1730). Low was known for his acts of cruelty on...

An illustration showing the notorious English pirate Captain Edward Low, marooned by his crew in 1724. Low was active in the Caribbean and eastern Atlantic from 1721 to 1724 during the Golden Age of Piracy (1690-1730). (National Maritime...

A late-19th century cigarette card showing the Barbadian pirate Captain Stede Bonnet (d. 1718) and his capture off the Carolinas. Produced by Allen & Ginter. Lithographer: George S. Harris & Sons. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

A 17th-century illustration of the pirate and privateer Olivier van Noort who was the first Dutchman to circumnavigate the globe (1598-1601). (From a 1926 edition of Around the World by Olivier van Noort 1598-1601, Volume I. by Dr. J.W. Ironman...

A late-19th century cigarette card showing the English pirate Captain Charles Vane (d. 1721) and the notorious episode when he fired at the ship of the Governor of the Bahamas. Produced by Allen & Ginter. Lithographer: George S. Harris &...