Under the Black Flag: Exploits of the Most Notorious PiratesRiveting account traces careers of buccaneers of many nationalities across 2 centuries and around the globe — from the West Indies to the South Seas. True stories of such notorious brigands as Captain Kidd and Edward (Blackbeard) Teach, as well as such lesser-known pirates as John Quelch, Christopher Scudamore, and Erasmus Peterson. |
Contents
| 3 | |
Richard Worley | 162 |
BARTHoloMEw RoberTs | 191 |
THOMAS ANSTIs | 210 |
GEORGE LowTHER | 214 |
EDWARD Low | 220 |
FARRINGTON SPRIGGs | 236 |
John PHillips | 241 |
John Gow | 251 |
William FLY | 258 |
JEAN LAFITTE | 262 |
THE CUBAN PIRATES | 284 |
CHARLES GIBBs | 320 |
BENITO DE SOTO | 329 |
THE PIRACY of THE BRIG MEXICAN | 333 |
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