Spanish explorers reaching the Americas When the word pirate comes up in a conversation today, the witty smart-mouthed Captain Jack Sparrow from the Disney movie series Pirates of the Caribbean usually pops up in someone’s mind. If the great Captain Jack Sparrow does not come up, then an individual wearing a baggy shirt, a tricorn hat, and a parrot attached to their shoulder should be a familiar image. Children hear the stories of these infamous and violent species engaging in horrendous acts and battles in order to secure the “booty” when they are at a very young age. They start to fill up with action-packed adventures as sparks begin to light up their imagination. Their boundless minds cannot help but emulate the feeling of being able to do anything anywhere they wanted without having to deal with parents or the law to cause a halt in their journey. Names including Sir Francis Drake and Henry Morgan are some of the most notorious pirates to ever live as they traveled the seas...
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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...
A pirate marooned The word t orture has the capability to spark fear into the eyes of many. It is the action of inflicting extreme pain on another as punishment for the purpose of gaining something out of it. Pirates are the masters at coming up with various methods of torture in order to cause fear in their victims or to acquire information from their victims. The several techniques of torture they used varied in levels of efficiency. Pirates used a copious amount of methods for torturing and punishing their victims throughout history, but each method had different effects. Throughout the many written books on pirate, a large quantity of them describe the evils the pirates have done via the use of torture and punishments. For example, in the book Under the Black Flag it states,” ‘Low cut off the said Master’s lips and broiled them before his face, and afterwards murdered the whole crew being thirty two persons’.” (Cordingly 130). To give background knowledge,...