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a Chinese sea merchant, considered by some a pirate during the Qing Dynasty era. Facing starvation, he became a pirate in 1794. At the height of his power, he and Cheung Po Tsai commanded hundreds of ships and thousands of pirates; he was Cheung's mate. They predated others on the seas of Fujian, Guangdong and Taiwan Strait and came to be considered a major threat to Chinese political stability.
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Cai Qian17611800
 
18091809

Jacques Perraudunknown1801
 
 
1801unknown
 Captain of the privateer Bellone of St. Malo
Jonathan Haradenunknown1745
 
1803unknown
 Privateer
Samuel Mason1739, Nov 81790
 
18031803
 a Virginia militia captain on the American western frontier during the Revolutionary War, who sub...
Peter Alston1765 ca1797
 
18041804, Feb 8
 the late 18th Century and early 19th Century counterfeiter and river pirate, who was believed to ...
Wiley Harpe17701797
 
18041804, Feb 8
 Known as "Little" Harpe, he and his brother Micajah "Big" Harpe were murderers, serial killers,...
Anonymousunknown1805
 
 
1805unknown
 female commander of French privateer LA BAUGOURT
Catherine Hagertyunknown1806
 
 
18061807, Apr
 Australian convicts. Among a group of convicts taken on board a shorthanded ship as crew. The con...
Cheng I17651790
 
18071807, Nov 16
 a powerful Chinese pirate operating from Canton (Guangdong) and throughout the South China Sea in...
Robert Jeffreyunknown1807
 
 
1807unknown
 Press-ganged privateer, marooned
Charlotte Badger17781806
 
 
18081816 ca
 widely considered to be the first Australian female pirate despite being from Bromsgrove, Worcest...
Jorgen Jorgensen1780, Mar 291807
 
 
18081841, Jan 20
 a Danish adventurer during the Age of Revolution. During the Action of 2 March 1808 his ship was ...
Stephen Decatur Sr.1751, Jun1770
 
18091808, Nov 11
 an American naval captain in the Revolutionary War and later in the Quasi-War. He was the father ...
Edward Jordan17711794
 
18091809
 an Irish rebel, fisherman and pirate in Nova Scotia. He was typical of the violent but short-live...
Robert Surcouf1773, Dec 121798
 
18091827, Jul 8
 a French privateer and slave trader who operated in the Indian Ocean between 1789 and 1801, and a...
Ah Pakunknown1800
 
1809unknown
 the chieftain of the Cantonese pirates who defeated Portuguese pirates in Ningpo in Zhenjiang, Ch...
Blackmannunknown1800
 
18091810 ca
 Pirate of unknown origin in the service of France. Cruised the English Channel and attacked any ...
Rahmah ibn Jabir al-Jalahimah17601800
 
18091826
 an Arab ruler in the Persian Gulf and was described by his contemporary, the English traveller an...
Jean St. Faustunknown1800
 
1809unknown
 Frenchman who was the Commander of a fleet of Dutch eight privateer ships in 1803. The ships sail...
George Lowtherunknown1720
 
1811723
 an 18th-century English pirate who, although little is known of his life, was active in the Carib...
Cheung Po Tsai17831800
 
18101822
 a 19th-century Chinese pirate. He was a son of a Tanka fisherman who lived in Xinhui of Jiangmen ...
Ching Shih17751801
 
18101844
 a prominent pirate in Qing China who terrorized the South China Sea in the early 19th century. Sh...
Grambounknown1800
 
18111811
 Was "boss" of Barataria, the smugglers' stronghold off the Island of Grande Terre, near Louisiana...
Dominique You17751802
 
18141830, Nov 14
 a privateer, soldier, and politician. Jean Lafitte's most trusted lieutenant, and rumored to have...
Joshua Barneyunknown1759
 
1818unknown
 an American Navy officer who served in the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War. He late...
Hezekiah Frith17631790
 
18191848
 an 18th-century British ship owner with the reputation of a "gentleman privateer", who engaged in...
Vincenzo Gambi1775 ca1805
 
18191819/20
 a 19th-century Italian pirate. He was one of the most violent and bloodthirsty men in the Gulf of...
Barthelemy Lafon17691790
 
18201820, Sep 29
 a notable Creole architect, engineer, city planner, and surveyor in New Orleans, Louisiana. He ap...
Jose Gaspar17561783
 
18211821
 a purported Spanish pirate, the "last of the Buccaneers," who is claimed to have raided the west ...
Louis-Michel Aury1788 ca1802
 
18211821, Aug 30
 a French privateer operating in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean during the early 19th century. A...
Pierre Lafitte17701803
 
18211821
 a privateer in the Gulf of Mexico and smuggler in the early 19th century. He also ran a blacksmit...
Luis Brion1782, Jul 61806
 
18211821, Sep 27
 a military officer who fought in the Venezuelan War of Independence. He rose to the rank of admir...
William Howard Allen1790, Jul 81808
 
18221822, Nov
  a Lieutenant in the United States navy, and a native of the city of Hudson. While a child, he w...
Renato Beluche1780, Dec 151803
 
18231860, Oct 4
 a Venezuelan merchant and privateer who played many roles in the turbulent world of the 19th-cent...
Jean Lafitte1776 ca1803
 
18261826 ca
 a French-American smuggler, privateer, pirate and slaver in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th ...
Maria Lindsey1700 ca1720
 
1831760+
 a pirate in the early 18th century who with her husband, Eric Cobham, practiced piracy in the Gul...
Henri Caesar1791 ca1791
 
18301830
 allegedly a 19th-century Haitian revolutionary and pirate. Efforts to find historical evidence of...
James Ford1770?1799?
 
18331833
 an American civic leader and business owner in western Kentucky and southern Illinois at the turn...
Kazimierz Lux17801795
 
18461846
 an officer of the Polish Legions and a pirate in the Caribbean Sea during the early 19th century....
Sam Hall Lord17781800
 
18491844, Nov 5
 one of the most famous buccaneers on the island of Barbados. Sam Lord as he was usually known, am...
Hiram Breakes17451760
 
185unknown
 Breakes was the tall, handsome son of the Councilor of the Island of Saba. In 1764, he was appoin...
Juan Gomez17811790
 
18891900, Jul 13
 Brother-in-law of the famous pirate Gasparilla. Died, credited with the great age of 120 years, a...
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