Wreck divers recently discovered a heavily armed, 18th-century pirate ship in the waters between Morocco ... from the 17th ...

and the Kingdom of Sicily worked together to expel them for good in the early 19th century. As expected of a Barbary pirate ship, the recently announced discovery contained several items that were ...

Another 19th century Polish pirate of the Caribbean was Ignacy Blumer. Even before the end of the Saint-Domingue campaign he and a group of Polish legionaries left Hispaniola aboard a ship he received ...

The ship's condition—intact and with full cargo—seemed to rule out pirates. One theory bandied about in the 19th century held that crew members drank the alcohol onboard and mutinied ...

19th-century engraving depicting the Santa María, the ship used by Christopher Columbus ... only about 2 percent were sunk by pirates or rival navies. More than 50,000 people perished, some ...

However, things were very different in the 19th century, when Hong Kong was a ... was the commander of the Red Flag fleet of pirate ships. When he died at the age of 42, Madame Ching became ...

Think again! Zheng Yi Sao - a former sex worker turned Pirate Queen who terrorised the South China Sea in the 19th Century - blows them both out of the water. Script by Emma Nagouse, University of ...