Data Retrieval Chart
Your Name: __Emily King________________________________
Use resources, including the Web sites listed on the chart.
List fascinating facts for each category of information. If you can’t find a fact for a category, make up a question. Be sure to
research the author(s) of each Web site and put that information under the link to the Web site.
Internet Site/
History of Pirates
Information about the
Author
http://pirates.hegewisch
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.net/pirates.html
to be spelled
http://www.unmuseum.
with a “y.”
org/pirate.htm
ex. Pyrates
http://www.rochedalss.
 18th century
called the
eq.edu.au/pirates/pirate
“Golden Age
1.htm
of Piracy’
http://www.cindyvallar.
 Piracy is any
com/goldenage.html
robbery or
http://library.thinkquest
other violent
action, for
.org/J0110360/letofm.ht
private ends
m
and without
http://www.piratesinfo.
authorizatio
com/
n by public
Books and Other
authority,
committed
Resources
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on the seas
or air.
Pirates are
lightly
armed with
knives and
Famous Pirates
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John Avery
Black Beard
Anne Bonny
Hiram
Breakes
Caesar
John Coxon
Red Legs
Greaves
Henriques
Piet Heyn
Henry
Jennings
William
Lewis
Ned Loe
George
Lowther
Sir Henry
Morgan
Pierre Le
Grand
Calico Jack
Rockham
Buccaneers
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
Privateers
Henry
Morgan
(Was
knighted)
Became a
hero
leading
the
buccanee
rs in
1668
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Buccanne
rs sailed
as
privateer
s for
England
Buccanee
rs would
often
raise a
red flag
with their
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Armed
ships
under
papers to
a
governme
nt to
perform
specific
tasks
“legal
pirates”
Sir
Francis
Drake,
hero in
England
was
knighted
and a
privateer
Letter of
marque is
contract
Pirate Flags
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
Jolly Roger
aka
“Captain
Death
Among
Pirates”
One of most
popular
myths is
that the
plague
shops
would fly a
black flag to
warn others
to stay
away.
Black, skull,
and cross
bones
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pistols.
Pirates
attack cargo
ships or
merchant
shops.
Pirates rely
on surprise
when
boarding
ships.
Piracy has
occurred in
all stages of
history.
In Middle
Ages, Vikings
from North
and Moors
from the
South
engaged in
piracy.
In the early
19th century,
the Pirate
States were
suppressed
by
successive
actions of
American,
British, and
French
forces.
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Mary Read
Bartholome
w Robers
Benito de
Soto
Charles
Vane
Woodes
Rogers
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national
flag.
Buccanee
r Leader
Jean
David
Nau aka
Francois
l’Ollonais,
aka
Daniel
Montbars
destroyed
so many
Spanish
ships and
killed so
many
Spaniards
that he
was
called the
“Extermi
natior”
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of
employm
ent
Employed
by
governme
nt
List Reference for Other Resources:
Please answer the following questions:
1. In your words, what is a Pirate? Why did so many sailors turn to a life of piracy?
2. Who were known as Buccaneers? How was their name derived? What were their other nicknames? When and where
did they live? What became their goal or mission?
3. Who were Privateers? Who commissioned Privateers? What was their purpose or goal?
Privateers were private people or ships hired to attack foreign ships during war time. The government
commissioned privateers by letter of marque. Privateering was a way of mobilizing armed shops and sailors
without having to spend public money or commit naval officers.
4. Do you think Privateers were Pirates or Patriots?
5. What is a Letter of Marque? Why were these letters issued?
It is a government license authorizing a privateer to capture enemy vessels and bring them before courts for
condemnation and sale. Letter of Marque would be used to involve permission to cross international border to affect
a reprisal authorized by an issuing jurisdiction to conduct reprisal operations outside its borders.
6. In what ways were pirates engaged in democratic governance? Hint: Articles of …..
7. What symbols are used on pirate flags (Jolly Roger)?
Skull and cross bones set in an x-mark on a black field
Some include an hourglass which represents “death.”
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/pirate-flags.htm
http://www.melfisher.org/reefswrecks/pirateflags.htm
http://tayci.tripod.com/flaglang.html
http://pirateshold.buccaneersoft.com/pirate_flags.html
MAKE YOUR OWN PIRATE FLAG!