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Henry Morgan

People say that history is always written by the winners. Examples of significant winners such as Alexander The Great who remains known as an amazing leader and hero despite the thousands of lives he claimed and horrendous acts he partook in. When two opposing conceptions battle one another, the one that comes out victorious is usually glorified and remembered while the conquered side is belittled. This is why we may never know the truth behind an enormous amount of important events or people. Henry Morgan would be a victim of this same saying being a part of a vast variety of facts and fictions detailing his background.  In both books “Buccaneers and Pirates” and “Under the Black Flag”, his origins are spoken with differing ideas causing conflict with each other. The novel “Buccaneers and Pirates” characterizes Henry Morgan’s parents as farmers, but he despised that type of lifestyle with such hate he went off on his own to pursue an alternative path of becoming a sailor. On the...
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The Notorious Pirate Blackbeard

Depiction of Blackbeard   Blackbeard is a name that invokes fear from all. Children grow up hearing the stories and watching the films of his overall greatness. However, Blackbeard's early life is still shrouded in a vast amount of mystery. As he continued to grow older, he took part in a vast number of sea adventures Legally named Edward Teach, many say Blackbeard was a sailor from the English port of Bristol who fought in the War of Spanish Succession. Around this time, he became unemployed in the Caribbean. He then headed to Nassau’s forbidden harbor and looked to become a pirate. In the spring of 1717, he sailed as second-in-command to the pirate captain Ben Hornigold. They cruised America's East Coast, seizing, and plundering 8 merchant ships. Of his famous encounters, his interaction with Stede Bonnet, also known as the “Gentleman Pirate”, was incredibly important, since he was able to take control of Bonnet’s ship, “The Revenge”. After this encounter, he then cont...
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Mythbusters

Through years of inaccurate portrayals, many false beliefs about pirates have become commonplace. The general public's views about pirates are most greatly influenced by TV shows, movies, and other media, such as the famous movie series, "Pirate of the Caribbean". These inaccurate portrayals of pirates in popular media have created false expectations of what pirates are truly like. Over time, these misunderstandings about pirates have turned into myths: widely held but false beliefs or ideas. The novel "Under the Black Flag", strives to clear misconceptions about pirates and show which popular pirate myths are true, and which are nothing more than myths. During the Golden Age of Piracy, people were suppressed from writing about pirates. However, this suppression caused people's curiosity about pirates to grow even larger, and people began writing anything they could imagine about pirates. One of the most famous and most-believed myths is that pirates ma...
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