What are some famous pirates in history?

The Chinese female pirate Zheng Shishi, in the pirate ** period, the most famous Chinese pirate was Zheng Shishi. Born in a brothel, Zheng Shi was kidnapped by the pirate Zheng Yi in 1801, and after Zheng Yi's death, she became the most powerful female pirate captain at the time. At its peak, Zheng Shi was in control of a pirate fleet of hundreds of ships.

In 1811, Zheng Shi finally decided to accept the imperial court's recruitment. Zheng Shishi and others led more than 270 ships equipped with 1,200 artillery pieces and 10,000 troops to surrender to the imperial court, and were awarded the title of thousand generals by the Qing Dynasty. Zheng Shi finally made the choice to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and even at the time there was a great deal of resistance.

Just as he was about to surrender, there was a large opposition to surrender within the pirates, and there were not a few who scolded him for betraying and rebelling. After Zheng Shi's surrender, her pirate followers in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia numbered tens of thousands, who had always refused to surrender to the imperial court.

Blackbeard Pirate, the pirate "Blackbeard" was originally known as Edward Teach. During the War of the Spanish Succession, Tič began sailing in armed civilian ships to raid enemy ships, and became the most notorious pirate in the Caribbean in the 18th century. The famous nickname "Blackbeard" is due to his long black beard that is messy and wild.

In its heyday, Blackbeard had a pirate fleet of four sailing ships, of which the "Queen of Vengeance" was his flagship.

John Hawkins was an official British pirate leader who also enjoyed plundering Spanish merchant ships. However, he is famous because he was also the first person to engage in slavery in England and was the founder of British slavery. In 1562, he captured 300 negroes in Guinea and sold them to the Spaniards on the island of Haiti in exchange for large quantities of "hides, ginger, sugar, and jewels."

Since Hawkins' father-in-law was a British Navy treasurer, Hawkins was able to enter the British Navy. He anticipated that Britain would have a war with Spain sooner or later, so he reformed the British navy, such as implementing artillery warfare-based tactics, building flexible clippers, etc., and finally, when the Spanish Armada came to teach Britain a lesson, the British navy successfully defeated the most powerful navy in the world. ‍‍

Anne Bonny, one of the most famous female pirates in history, was the daughter of a plantation owner. At the beginning of the 18th century, she left her hometown to join the fleet of the pirate leader Cotton Jack, and began her career as a pirate. In a battle with the encirclement army, due to her lack of actual combat command experience, Anne Bowley could not resist the swarming British army, and after a desperate fight, she was seriously wounded and captured by the British army.

On November 16, 1720, at the trial of the Court of Santiago de la Vega** on the island of Jamaica, Anne and all the pirates who followed her were sentenced to death.

Wang Zhi was a famous pirate in the Ming Dynasty of China and the leader of an armed maritime merchant group (倭寇). At that time, the Ming Dynasty imposed a sea ban, which made it impossible for many merchants along the coast to survive, so they had to smuggle **. Due to the encirclement and suppression of the smuggling group by the Ming army, Wang Zhi had to establish his own maritime armed forces against the Ming Dynasty, "so he set up an evil plot, gathered the outlaws, seduced the Unu Taro, Jiro, Shisuke Shiro, etc., and built a huge ship, 120 steps away, which can accommodate 2,000 people, and can gallop on the horse." ”

Famous pirates in history include Zhang Baozai, Drake, Columbus, and Magellan.

Samuel Bellamy lived to be just 28 years old. In his limited life, Bellamy spread his famous nickname "Black Sam" throughout the pirate world of the New World through several daring acts of sea robbery, earning him the nickname "The Pirate Prince". Sam Bellamy created his pirate base on the island of La Blanquilla in Venezuela in the 18th century and hid many treasures.

These treasures were discovered in 1984 and Venezuela** will begin building a national tourist facility with them in June 2007. At that time, there were few ships passing by on the island of La Blanquilla. Colin Wood, author of The Pirate Republic, thinks it's a very good hiding place for those trying to escape the laws of Barbados and French Martinique.

Francis Drake was the most hated English pirate leader of the Spaniards, he always plundered Spanish merchant ships at sea, and in the spring of 1573 alone, he plundered 5 tons** and countless treasures on the Isthmus of Panama. Although he is a pirate, Drake has an official background. In the middle of the 16th century, Queen Elizabeth of England, in order to weaken the power of the Spaniards, encouraged the English to carry out piracy, disrupt the Spanish routes, and contain the expansion of the Spaniards.

Elizabeth had encouraged him to raid and kill the Spaniards: "Drake! So that I can take revenge on the King of Spain for his insults! ”

Edward Titch, nicknamed "Blackbeard", one of the most notorious pirates in the history of world navigation, was born in Bristol, England, in 1680.

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