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Maritime history

Gentleman pirate Stede Bonnet is hanged from the gallows
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Hunting pirates: how piracy’s golden age came to an end

Female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read holding cutlasses
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Anne Bonny and Mary Read: the deadly female pirate duo

Map showing Sir Francis Drake's privateering fleet attacking Ribeira Grande the capital of Santiago
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Privateers, buccaneers and corsairs: why not all pirates were created equal

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A pirate ship flying the Jolly Roger closes in on another vessel during a storm
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The golden age of piracy: when pirates ruled the waves

Captain Edward Teach, better known as 'Blackbeard', a pirate who plundered the coasts of the West Indies, North Carolina and Virginia. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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The most famous and despicable pirates from history

The Jolly Roger, a black flag showing a skuyll and crossbones. (Photo by Henry Guttmann Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Q&A Did all pirates fly the Jolly Roger?

A pirate uses his cutlass to force a bound and blindfolded man to walk the plank
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Q&A Was walking the plank a real pirate punishment?

Pirates burying a treasure chest on a beach as their captain looks on
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Q&A X marks the spot: did pirates bury their treasure?

A 17th century sketch of a peg-legged pirate walking with the aid of crutches
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Q&A Did any real pirates wear eyepatches or have peg legs?

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Q&A Who do we say 'shot across the bows'?

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The Age of Sail: everything you wanted to know

Nelson stands in the Nile culling crocodiles in James Gillray's cartoon 'Extirpation of the Plagues of Egypt' (1798). The crocodiles represent captured or destroyed French ships at the battle of the Nile, while Nelson is cast as a cross between Moses and Hercules. (Archiv Gerstenberg/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
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Admiral Lord Nelson: 10 days that created a legend

Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton
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Ernest Shackleton, the great Antarctic explorer of the Heroic Age

Winston Churchill (left) with Charles de Gaulle, c1944. The British prime minister encouraged Vichy’s colonies to rally to the Free French leader. (Getty Images)
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Operation Ironclad: the WW2 battle for Madagascar

A manuscript illumination dated c1100 depicting Viking warriors sailing towards Brittany
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What if... The Vikings had never left their homelands?

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