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Appleby, John C. "Griffith, Piers". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/11605. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) An Irish American New York City river pirate and the criminal leader of the Charlton Street Gang in 1869.
Pirate active in the Caribbean. He was pardoned for piracy but reverted to it immediately afterwards and was killed by a Spanish pirate hunter.Elizabethan Sea Dog active in the West Indies. Successfully captured Porto Bello in 1602 without firing a shot. [ citation needed]
A pirate, privateer, and merchant active in the Caribbean. He is best known for sailing alongside Henry Jennings. A Turkish privateer and Ottoman admiral as well as Bey of Algiers; Beylerbey of the Mediterranean; and first Bey later Pasha of Tripoli. A known associate of the Lafitte Brothers active in the Caribbean before joining Simon Bolivar army in his fight for South American independence. Was originally one of the women – " Filles de Roi" – sent by the French government to Tortuga to become wives to the local male colonists. Rachel Carley (2000). Cuba: 400 Years of Architectural Heritage. Watson-Guptill. p.224. ISBN 0-8230-1128-3.
Judkins, David (2003), "Cavendish, Thomas (1560–1592)" in Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia, volume 1. Cruikshank, E. A., The Life of Sir Henry Morgan: with an account of the English settlement of the island of Jamaica. The Macmillan Company of Canada, 1935. The first king of the Nordic Kalmar Union, he spent his last years living on the island of Gothland and "sent forth piratical expeditions against friend and foe alike". [3]