Episode 258 - Desperate & Bloody Minded Men

In the summer of 1696, a dozen incognito pirates waited in Bombay for a ship to take them on. The following weeks were filled with zany misadventures and bloody murders. The Pirate History Podcast is a member of the Airwave Media Podcast Network. If you’d like to advertise on The Pirate History Podcast, please contact [email protected] Sources : The Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies from British History Online The Pirate Hunter by Richard Zachs Pirates in Their Own Words by E.T. Fox Honor Among Thieves by Jan Rogozinski Captain Kidd & the War Against the Pirates by Robert C. Ritchie The Pirates’ Pact by Douglas R. Burgess Jr. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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A podcast about the Golden Age of Piracy in the Caribbean, the real men and women that threatened the trade and stability of the Old World empires, the forces that led them to piracy and the myths and stories they inspired. Famous names like Captain Henry Morgan, Henry Avery, Charles Vane, Mary Reed, Anne Bonny, Black Bart Roberts, Ned Low, and Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach will rub elbows with Queens, Kings, Popes, rebellious monks, Caribbean Natives, African Slaves and notorious governors like Woodes Rogers. History, high seas adventure, myth and magic, voodoo, treachery, biography and freedom await.