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Tag Archives: Calico Jack
Dead Men Do Tell Tales
I know a little bit about a lot of things. And I know a lot about a few things. One of the things I know a lot about is early 18th Century Anglo-American pirates. Call it an eccentricity. My specific … Continue reading
Posted in Musings
Tagged 1715 Treasure fleet, 18th Century, Black Sam, Blackbeard, Brethren of the Coast, buccaneer, Calico Jack, Caribbean, Charles II, Concorde, corsair, Ed Teach, El Hechizado, freebooter, Golden Age of Piracy, Grand Alliance, Henry Jennings, history, Hornigold, Jack Rackham, Jamaica, Letters of Marque, Marcus Rediker, Marianne, Middle Passage, museum, Paulsgraves Williams, Philip V, pirates, privateer, Queen Anne's Revenge, Queen Anne's War, Real Pirates, Sam Bellamy, Smithsonian Institute, Sultana, Thatch, Treaty of Utrecht, Triangular Trade Route, Union Station, Wales, War of Spanish Succession, Whydah Galley
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“Sail Ye Winds, Heigh Ho …”
In March of 1968, returning from his first tour in Vietnam, my father moved our family to the Hampton Roads, Virginia. (There is a certain insanity in the Pentagon referring to an assignment in a combat zone as a “tour”. … Continue reading
Posted in Musings
Tagged Anne Bonny, Blackbeard, Calico Jack, Carnegie Library, Dreams, Ed Teach, Family, Ft. Monroe, Hampton Roads, Historic Triangle, history, Jack Rackham, Jamestown, Kansas, Kecoughtan Village, moving, Orwellian, Paso Robles, Peninsula, pirates, Point Comfort, Queen Anne's Revenge, Sam Bellamy, Stede Bonnet, Syms-Eaton Museum, Virginia
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