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1797, Nov 21850-18511851, Sep 1
a Venezuelan adventurer and soldier, best known for an expedition aimed at liberating Cuba from Spain in the 1850s. His troops carried a flag that López had designed, which later became the flag of modern Cuba. He was executed in Havana by the royalists in 1851.
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Narciso Lopez1797, Nov 21850
 
18511851, Sep 1

Eli Boggs18101830
 
18571857
 an American pirate, one of the last active ocean-going pirates operating off the coast of China d...
Shap Ng-tsaiunknown1845
 
1859unknown
 a Chinese pirate active in the South China Sea from about 1845 to 1859. He was one of the two mos...
Bill Johnston1782, Feb 11810
 
18601870, Feb 17
 a Thousand Islands smuggler, river pirate, and War of 1812 American privateer. His most famous un...
Nathaniel Gordon1826, Feb 61850
 
18621862, Feb 21
 Pirate and slave trader, born in Portland, Maine. Captain Nathaniel Gordon was the first and only...
Bully Hayes1827/291850
 
18771877, Mar 31
 a notorious American-born ship's captain who engaged in blackbirding in the 1860s and 1870s and w...
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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