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The Legends

Pirates. Privateers. Corsairs. Chieftains. Six centuries, seven seas. Choose a name, follow the evidence, enter the legend.

Twenty-Seven Captains Interactive Histories Real Evidence

Explore the Legends

Choose Your Legend

Sorted by era, filtered by everything else. One is open; the rest are charted — the research is done, the exhibits are being built.

Early Sea Raiders

  • Eustace the Monk (Eustache le Moine), c. 1170 – 1217, mercenary fleet commander. The English Channel.

Corsairs of the Mediterranean

  • Hayreddin Barbarossa, c. 1478 – 1546, Ottoman corsair and later Kapudan Pasha. The Mediterranean.
  • Sayyida al-Hurra, born c. 1491, death unrecorded. Governor of Tétouan. The Strait of Gibraltar.

The Elizabethan Sea

  • Sir Francis Drake, c. 1540 – 1596, privateer, explorer and sea raider. Atlantic, Caribbean and the Pacific coast of the Americas.
  • Grace O’Malley (Gráinne Ní Mháille), born c. 1530, death unrecorded. Gaelic clan chieftain. Clew Bay and Connacht.

Age of the Buccaneers

  • Henry Morgan, c. 1635 – 1688, privateer and buccaneer. The Spanish Caribbean.
  • François l’Olonnais, born c. 1630, fate unknown. Tortuga and Lake Maracaibo.
  • Sieur de Grammont, born c. 1645, fate unknown. Saint-Domingue, Veracruz and Campeche.

The Pirate Round

  • Thomas Tew, birth unrecorded – 1695, Bermuda and Newport to the Red Sea.
  • Henry Every, born 1659, fate unknown. Atlantic and Indian Ocean.
  • Christopher Condent, also recorded as Edward Congdon, dates unrecorded, the Arabian Sea.
  • Olivier Levasseur, called La Buse, c. 1690 – 1730, the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean.

The Golden Age of Piracy

  • Benjamin Hornigold, c. 1680 – 1719, Caribbean and Bahamas.
  • Blackbeard (Edward Thatch), c. 1680 – 1718, Atlantic and Caribbean. Open now.
  • Samuel Bellamy, c. 1689 – 1717, Caribbean and North Atlantic.
  • Howell Davis, c. 1690 – 1719, the Guinea coast.
  • Bartholomew Roberts, 1682 – 1722, Atlantic, Caribbean and West Africa.
  • Charles Vane, c. 1680 – 1721, Caribbean and the American coast.
  • Calico Jack Rackham (John Rackham), c. 1682 – 1720, Caribbean.
  • Anne Bonny, born c. 1697, fate unknown. Caribbean.
  • Mary Read, birth unrecorded, buried 28 April 1721. Caribbean.
  • Stede Bonnet, c. 1688 – 1718, Atlantic and Caribbean.
  • Edward Low, born c. 1690, fate unknown. Atlantic, Caribbean and the Azores.
  • William Kidd, c. 1645 – 1701, privateer tried as a pirate. Atlantic and Indian Ocean.

The Last Great Pirate Empires

  • Zheng Yi Sao, c. 1775 – 1844, head of a pirate confederation. The South China Sea.

Gulf Coast & Early American Pirates

  • Jean Lafitte, born c. 1780, fate unknown. Privateer, smuggler and slave trader. Barataria Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.
  • Rachel Wall, c. 1760 – 1789, hanged at Boston for highway robbery. The Massachusetts coast.

Legends Timeline

From the earliest sea raiders to the last of the pirate empires — more than six centuries of the people who made a living taking ships. Every bar is the years in command, not the lifespan.

Their Paths Crossed

Captains sailed together, fought together, betrayed one another and crossed the same waters. Every line is a documented relationship — and the ones that are missing are the point.

Explore the connections
Thirteen captains, twelve documented connections

Sail the Pirate World

From the Gulf of Mexico to the Pearl River. These careers reached a great deal further than the Bahamas — two of them worked the other side of Africa, one never left the Mediterranean, and one happened entirely inside a Chinese estuary.

Continue Exploring

Follow the documented careers, surviving sources, and disputed stories behind the pirates whose lives shaped the Dark Tides collection.

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