
Associate of William Kyd.Ī French ship-owner who provided ships to Francis I for exploration of the globe.Īn Ottoman privateer and Bey (Governor) of Algiers and Beylerbey (Chief Governor) of the West Mediterranean. Raided Spanish ports with James Logan and William Cooke.Įnglish pirate active in the Thames and English Channel. Yermak Timofeyevich, a 16th-century Cossack river pirate who started the Russian conquest of Siberia in the reign of Tsar Ivan the Terrible NameĪn English privateer. He was the last focus of opposition to the Second Triumvirate. Greek inscriptions of the Athenian navy raiding his base on Kynthnos Island and capturing him and his men read "making the sea safe for those that sailed thereon." Was accused by the Romans of organizing and aiding pirate raids in Italy.


Queen regent, fostered the pirates among her people, and had a Roman diplomat killed by them. His party carried bells as their trademark to frighten the commoners. Phocaean admiral active against Carthaginian and Tyrsenian merchants in the years following the Greco–Persian Wars. His actions precipitated the Second Illyrian War. Leading pirate raids of the Chauci into province Gallia Belgica (Belgium) between AD 41–47, when he was captured by the Romans. Was the leader of an unsuccessful anti-Roman uprising in Pontus in 69ĭeserted Cananefate soldier.

Gan Ning was a notorious pirate and marauder in the late 190s CE, who became a Chinese military general serving under the warlord Sun Quan in the late Eastern Han dynasty.
