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1697 In Piracy
''See also'' 1696 in piracy, other events in 1697, 1698 in piracy and Timeline of piracy. Events Caribbean *May - Buccaneers under Jean du Casse assist French regulars in the siege of Cartagena. After French troops sack the city and depart, the buccaneers are dissatisfied with their portion of the loot and plunder the city a second time. Indian Ocean *Undated - Adam Baldridge flees Madagascar to avoid attack by neighbors for engaging in the slave trade. *October 30 - William Kidd murders his gunner, William Moore. Births {{Empty section, date=July 2010 Deaths Piracy Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods. Those who conduct acts of piracy are called pirates, v ... Piracy by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1696 In Piracy
''See also'' 1695 in piracy, Other events in 1696, 1697 in piracy, and Timeline of piracy. Events Europe * Undated - 24 of Henry Every's pirates are arrested in Ireland and England. Every eludes capture and is never seen again. *January 26 - William Kidd issued a letter of marque by King William III of England. *May - Kidd sets sail from Plymouth, England en route to New York City aboard the ''Adventure Galley''. North America *September - Kidd leaves New York on the ''Adventure Galley''. Births References {{Reflist Piracy Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods. Those who conduct acts of piracy are called pirates, v ... Piracy by year 1696 in military history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1697
Events January–March * January 8 – Thomas Aikenhead is hanged outside Edinburgh, becoming the last person in Great Britain to be executed for blasphemy. * January 11 – French writer Charles Perrault releases the book ''Histoires ou contes du temps passé'' (literally "Tales of Past Times", known in England as "Mother Goose tales") in Paris, a collection of popular fairy tales, including ''Cinderella'', ''Puss in Boots'', '' Red Riding Hood'', ''The Sleeping Beauty'' and ''Bluebeard''. * February 8 – The English infantry regiment of Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall is disbanded four years after it was first raised. * February 22 – Gerrit de Heere becomes the new Governor of Dutch Ceylon, succeeding Thomas van Rhee and administering the colony for almost six years until his death. * February 26 – Conquistador Martín de Ursúa y Arizmendi and 114 soldiers arrive at Lake Petén Itzá in what is now Guatemala and begin the Spanish conquest of Guate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1698 In Piracy
''See also 1697 in piracy, 1699 in piracy, and Timeline of piracy.'' Events *December 8 – William III of England issues his 1698 Act of Grace. Indian Ocean *January 30 – Captain William Kidd plunders the ''Quedagh Merchant'', an Armenian merchant vessel sailing under French passes, near the Malabar Coast. *April – Kidd encounters Robert Culliford's pirate vessel '' Mocha Frigate'' at Île Sainte-Marie. Most of Kidd's crew desert to Culliford. Kidd burns the Adventure Galley and takes his remaining crew aboard the '' Adventure Prize'' (ex-''Quedagh Merchant''). *September – Culliford and Dirk Chivers plunder the Great Muhammed. North America * Undated – Canoot attacks and steals John Redwood's ship then raids the town of Lewes the next day. * Undated – William Cotter and his former shipmate John Blackmore are convicted of piracy but receive no punishment. South America * Undated – Anne Dieu-le-Veut is released from Colombia after being captured by Spain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timeline Of Piracy
This is a timeline of the history of piracy. * Piracy in ancient history * Piracy in post-classical history *1560s *1570s *1580s *1590s *1600s *1610s *1620s *1630s *1640s *1650s * 1660s *1670s *1680s * 1690s: 1690 – 1691 – 1692 – 1693 – 1694 – 1695 – 1696 – 1697 – 1698 – 1699 *1700s: 1700 – 1701 – 1702 – 1703 – 1704 – 1705 – 1706 – 1707 – 1708 – 1709 *1710s: 1710 – 1711 – 1712 – 1713 – 1714 – 1715 – 1716 – 1717 – 1718 – 1719 *1720s: 1720 – 1721 – 1722 – 1723 – 1724 – 1725 – 1726 – 1727 – 1728 – 1729 *1730s: 1730 – 1731 – 1732 – 1733 – 1734 – 1735 – 1736 – 1737 – 1738 – 1739 *1740s: 1740 – 1741 – 1742 – 1743 – 1744 – 1745 – 1746 – 1747 – 1748 – 1749 *1750s: 1750 – 1751 – 1752 – 1753 – 1754 – 1755 – 1756 – 1757 – 1758 – 1759 *1760s: 1760 – 1761 – 1762 – 1763 – 1764 – 1765 – 1766 – 1767 – 1768 – 1769 *1770s: 1770 – 1771 – 1772 – 1773 � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buccaneer
Buccaneers were a kind of privateers or free sailors particular to the Caribbean Sea during the 17th and 18th centuries. First established on northern Hispaniola as early as 1625, their heyday was from the Restoration in 1660 until about 1688, during a time when governments were not strong enough and did not consistently attempt to suppress them. Originally the name applied to the landless hunters of wild boars and cattle in the largely uninhabited areas of Tortuga and Hispaniola. The meat they caught was smoked over a slow fire in little huts the French called ''boucans'' to make ''viande boucanée'' – ''jerked meat'' or ''jerky'' – which they sold to the corsairs who preyed on the (largely Spanish) shipping and settlements of the Caribbean. Eventually the term was applied to the corsairs and (later) privateers themselves, also known as the Brethren of the Coast. Though corsairs, also known as ''filibusters'' or ''freebooters'', were largely lawless, privateers were nomi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Du Casse
Jean-Baptiste du Casse (2 August 1646 – 25 June 1715) was a French privateer, admiral, and colonial administrator who served throughout the Atlantic World during the 17th and 18th centuries. Likely born 2 August 1646 in Saubusse, near Pau (Béarn), to a Huguenot family, du Casse joined the French merchant marine and served in the East India Company and the slave-trading Compagnie du Sénégal. Later, he joined the French Navy and took part in several victorious expeditions during the War of the League of Augsburg in the West Indies and Spanish South America. During the War of the Spanish Succession, he participated in several key naval battles, including the Battle of Málaga and the siege of Barcelona. For his service, he was made a knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece by King Philip V of Spain. In the midst of these wars, he was Governor of the colony of Saint-Domingue from 1691 to 1703. He ended his military career at the rank of Lieutenant General of the naval f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raid On Cartagena (1697)
The Raid on Cartagena de Indias was a successful attack by the French on the fortified city of Cartagena de Indias, on May 6, 1697, as part of the War of the Grand Alliance. Background By 1695, the French Navy had declined to the point that it could no longer face the English and Dutch in an open sea battle and therefore had switched to privateering – ''guerre de course''. Bernard Desjean, Baron de Pointis, active in the Caribbean from the beginning of the war, was able to convince King Louis XIV of France to let him try a daring attack on the richest city of the region, Cartagena, in present-day Colombia. Raid He received command of a fleet of seven capital ships, three frigates, and some smaller vessels. The squadron left from Brest, France, on January 7, 1697, and arrived at Saint-Domingue in the West Indies on March 3. Pointis requested assistance from governor Jean du Casse, who gave his support only reluctantly, as he preferred an attack on Portobelo. On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Baldridge
Adam Baldridge (fl. 1690 – 1697) was an English pirate and one of the early founders of the pirate settlements in Madagascar. History After fleeing from Jamaica to escape murder charges, Baldridge sailed to Madagascar and, by 1690, had established a base of operations on the island of St. Mary's. By the following year, Baldridge controlled the inland waterway into St. Mary's having established a virtual stronghold overlooking the island harbour as well as protecting the settlements' warehouses. After he had subdued the local tribes, native chieftains would be forced to pay Baldridge to mediate between warring tribes. Baldridge's settlement had become a popular haven among pirates of the Mediterranean with Baldridge supplying pirates in exchange for high fees. Baldridge's trading supplies came from New York merchant Frederick Philipse, who chartered a number of ships under captains John Churcher, Thomas Mostyn, and others; Baldridge sent slaves back in return. Among his custo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madagascar
Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa across the Mozambique Channel. At Madagascar is the world's List of island countries, second-largest island country, after Indonesia. The nation is home to around 30 million inhabitants and consists of the island of Geography of Madagascar, Madagascar (the List of islands by area, fourth-largest island in the world), along with numerous smaller peripheral islands. Following the prehistoric breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana, Madagascar split from the Indian subcontinent around 90 million years ago, allowing native plants and animals to evolve in relative isolation. Consequently, Madagascar is a biodiversity hotspot; over 90% of wildlife of Madagascar, its wildlife is endemic. Human settlement of Madagascar occurred during or befo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Slavery
The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day. Likewise, its victims have come from many different ethnicities and religious groups. The social, economic, and legal positions of enslaved people have differed vastly in different systems of slavery in different times and places. Slavery has been found in some hunter-gatherer populations, particularly as hereditary slavery, but the conditions of agriculture with increasing social and economic complexity offer greater opportunity for mass chattel slavery. Slavery was already institutionalized by the time the first civilizations emerged (such as Sumer in Mesopotamia, which dates back as far as 3500 BC). Slavery features in the Mesopotamian '' Code of Hammurabi'' (c. 1750 BC), which refers to it as an established institution. Slavery was widespread in the ancient world in Europe, Asia, Middle East, and Africa. It became less common throughout Europe during the Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Kidd
William Kidd, also known as Captain William Kidd or simply Captain Kidd ( – 23 May 1701), was a Scottish sea captain who was commissioned as a privateer and had experience as a pirate. He was tried and executed in London in 1701 for murder and piracy. Kidd had captured a French ship, commanded by an English captain, as a prize. He had been commissioned by the Crown as a privateer for this expedition, but the political climate of England turned against him in this case. Some modern historians, for example Sir Cornelius Neale Dalton, deemed his piratical reputation unjust and said that he was acting as a privateer. Documents found in the early 20th century in London court papers supported Kidd's account of his actions. Life and career Early life and education Kidd was born in Dundee, Scotland prior to October 15, 1654. While claims have been made of alternate birthplaces, including Greenock and even Belfast, he said himself he came from Dundee in a testimony given by Kidd to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Moore (pirate)
William Moore, and variations of William such as Will, Willie, Bill or Billy Moore, may refer to: Artists and entertainers *Billy Moore (musician, born 1917) (1917–1989), American jazz musician *Billy Moore (musician, born 1931) (1931–2002), Guyana caribbean musician * Wild Bill Moore (1918–1983), tenor saxophone player Expos * William Moore (critic) (1868–1937), Australian art critic and author * William Moore (musician) (1893–1951), U.S. blues singer and guitarist * William Moore (actor) (1916–2000), British TV actor * William Moore (dancer) (1933–1992), African American dance critic, dancer, researcher, managed the Eleo Pomare Dance Company at one time * William Henry Moore (1872–1960), Canadian author and Member of the Canadian House of Commons * William R. Moore (journalist) (1909/10–1950), war correspondent killed in the Korean War * Willie "Pdub" Moore Jr., actor and comedian Businesspeople * William Moore (banker) (1914–2009), chairman of the board ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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