Shiver me timbers It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day



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Pirates

Notable pirates

# Black Bart (Bartholomew Roberts)
# Black Bellamy (Samuel Bellamy)
# Edward Teach or Thatch, known as Blackbeard
# Jean Lafitte
# Anne Bonney
# Captain William Kidd
# Henry Morgan
# Khair ad Din
# Sextus Pompeius, a Roman general who became a pirate
# Grace O'Malley, Irish female pirate
# Mary Read

Notable privateers

# Sir Francis Drake, also British admiral; regarded by the Spanish as a pirate
# Sir Walter Ralegh, who spent little time at sea but organised many pirate expeditions. See Derek Parker, 'The Queen's Pirates', a dual biograph of Drake and Ralegh. London, Scholastic, 2004
# Hippolyte de Bouchard