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Caribbean Sea

Indian Ocean

West Africa

Deaths

Bartholomew Roberts' Crew

In total, 118 pirates in Roberts' crew die after being defeated by Chaloner Ogle. [2]

14 crew members are killed on board Roberts' vessels during the battle with Ogle: [6]

104 of Roberts' pirates are executed or killed by the Vice Admiralty Court: [8]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thomas Anstis</span> English pirate

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Admiral of the Fleet Sir Chaloner Ogle KB was a Royal Navy officer and politician. After serving as a junior officer during the Nine Years' War, a ship he was commanding was captured by three French ships off Ostend in July 1706 in an action during the War of the Spanish Succession. Ogle was given command of the fourth-rate HMS Swallow and saw action against the pirate fleet of Bartholomew Roberts in the Battle of Cape Lopez in February 1722. The action was to prove a turning point in the war against the pirates and many consider the death of Roberts to mark the end of the Golden Age of Piracy.

See also 1717 in piracy, 1719 in piracy, and Timeline of piracy.

See also 1718 in piracy, 1720 in piracy, 1719 and Timeline of piracy.

See also 1720 in piracy, other events in 1721, 1722 in piracy and Timeline of piracy.

See also 1719 in piracy, 1721 in piracy and Timeline of piracy.

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The Flying Gang was an 18th-century group of pirates who established themselves in Nassau, New Providence in the Bahamas after the destruction of Port Royal in Jamaica. The gang consisted of the most notorious and cunning pirates of the time, and they terrorized and pillaged the Caribbean until the Royal Navy and infighting brought them to justice. They achieved great fame and wealth by raiding salvagers attempting to recover gold from the sunken Spanish treasure fleet. They established their own codes and governed themselves independent from any of the colonial powers of the time. Nassau was deemed the Republic of Pirates as it attracted many former privateers looking for work to its shores. The Governor of Bermuda stated that there were over 1,000 pirates in Nassau at that time and that they outnumbered the mere hundred inhabitants in the town.

Robert Sample was a pirate active off the coast of Africa and in the Caribbean. He is best known for sailing with Edward England.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Leadstone</span> 18th century pirate and slaver

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 Gosse, Phillip (1924). "The Pirates' Who's Who". www.gutenberg.org. Burt Franklin. ISBN   978-1605970462 . Retrieved 2024-06-10.
  3. Wells, David (October 1, 2018). A Brief History of the Cayman Islands. The West India Committee. p. 17.
  4. "Capt Bartholomew Roberts (c.1682 - 1722)". Royal Museums Greenwich. Retrieved 2024-06-10.
  5. Cordingly, David (2006). Under the Black Flag: the romance and the reality of life among the pirates. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks. pp. xix. ISBN   978-0-307-76307-5.
  6. 1 2 Defoe, Daniel (1724). A general history of the pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present time (2nd ed.). T. Warner. pp. 321–326.
  7. Lane, Kris (2019). Piracy in the Early Modern Era : An Anthology of Sources. Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated. pp. xiii. ISBN   9781624668241.
  8. 1 2 Breverton, Terry (September 1, 2010). Breverton's Nautical Curiosities: A Book of the Sea (1st ed.). Lyons Press. pp. 268, 269. ISBN   978-1599219790.