Do you know your pirates?

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How well do you know your pirates? Can you tell Black Bart from Blackbeard? Test your meddle with this quiz.

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    He first started out as a pirate hunter in his ship, The Adventure Galley

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    Known sometimes as "the gentleman pirate" because he was a substantial landowner, this pirate was for a time controlled by Blackbeard.

  3. 3

    Probably the most successful pirate during the golden age of piracy, he might have captured as many as 470 vessels.

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    Captured while he was drunk, a fellow pirate told him that "if he had fought like a man, he need not have been hanged like a dog."

  5. 5

    Two centuries before the golden age of piracy, the famous Turkish privateer Barbarossa was better known in English as

  6. 6

    This Irish Pirate sailed with Calico Jack and is famous despite having never commanded a ship.

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    He was called "Roi des Corsaires" and was considered gallant and chivalrous..

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    Commander of the Queen Anne's Revenge, he acquired an almost unmatched reputation for cruelty.

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    Not much is certain about this indentured-servant-turned-pirate who earned his fame by sacking the supposedly impregnable Maracaibo

  10. 10

    He used European conflicts to great personal success, and was able to retire piracy rich and with little legal retribution.

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