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12 Cards in this Set
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PHILIP ASHTON
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Captured by pirates and forced to become one, I managed to escape and spent 16 months marooned on an island before returning to my hometown of Marblehead
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Ned LOW
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My own men called me a "maniac and a brute"; I made one Spaniard eat the heart of another before I killed him.
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DIXIE BULL
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Having been robbed myself, I turned to piracy and became New England's first pirate.
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SAM BELLAMY
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I raided ships in the West Indies and commanded the "Wydah" until we went down in a storm in 1717.
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WILLIAM KIDD
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I was a privateer hired to find Blackbeard, but I became America's most famous pirate instead. Although the rope broke at my hanging, I was gibbeted for twenty years.
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BLACKBEARD
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I was probably the most notorious pirate. I left 14 wives, 40 children and a treasure that may still be buried at the Isle of Shoals
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RACHEL WALL
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My husband and I were New Hampshire pirates. He was drowned, and I was hanged for a murder that I didn't commit.
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MILLARD FILLMORE
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My great-grandfather was a pirate, but I still became thirteenth President of the United States.
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marooned |
left on an island by pirates |
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cutlass |
pirate sword |
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WILLIAM FLY
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Known for my cursing rages and inhuman brutality, I was a pirate chief for only one month before I was hanged and gibbeted in Boston Harbor.
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THOMAS VEAL
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I lived in Lynn Woods in a cave called Treasure Rock. My treasure may still be there.
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