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South China Sea, commanded either 5 or 6 squadrons consisting of 800 large junks, about 1,000 smaller vessels, and between 70,000 and 80,000 men and women.
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Sao Cheng Iunknown1810
 
1819unknown

Grambounknown1800
 
18111811
 Was "boss" of Barataria, the smugglers' stronghold off the Island of Grande Terre, near Louisiana...
Gaspardunknown1812
 
 
1812unknown
 Ex-Corsair
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...
Ibrahim Ameerunknown1810
 
1819unknown
 An admiral of an Arabian fleet of Red Sea pirates. In 1816 he captured four British merchant vess...
William Holmesunknown1810
 
1819unknown
 
Edward Rosewainunknown1810
 
1819unknown
 
Hippolyte Bouchard1780, Jan 151817
 
18191843, Jan 4
 a French Argentine sailor and corsair who fought for Argentina, Chile, and Peru. During his first...
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...
Benito Bonito17801818
 
18211821
 Pirate who supposedly hid his treasures of Lima in the cliffs of Australia, or in Coco Island.
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...
Captain Bakerunknown1810
 
1822unknown
 One of Gasparilla's gang up to 1822, when they were broken up by the United States Navy. His favo...
Renato Beluche1780, Dec 151803
 
18231860, Oct 4
 a Venezuelan merchant and privateer who played many roles in the turbulent world of the 19th-cent...
Captain Baltizarunknown1810
 
1823unknown
 A terror to all shipping in the Gulf of Mexico in the early part of the nineteenth century. Broug...
Breti Gullimillitunknown1810
 
18231823
 Taken with other South American pirates by H.M. sloop Tyne, and hanged at Kingston, Jamaica, in 1...
Roberto Cofresi1791, Jun 171818
 
18231825, Mar 29
 a pirate from Puerto Rico. Despite his birth into a noble family, the political and economic diff...
Jean Lafitte1776 ca1803
 
18261826 ca
 a French-American smuggler, privateer, pirate and slaver in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th ...
Jacque Alexander Tardy17671817
 
18271827, Jun 15
 an unsuccessful and atypical pirate who usually poisoned his victims. Most known for his last act...
Diabolitounknown1810
 
18291823
 a 19th-century Cuban pirate. One of the more violent of the era, he actively engaged the United S...
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...
Captain Charles Gibbs1798, Nov 51816
 
18311831, Apr 25
 an American pirate who was one of the last active in the Caribbean during the early-19th century ...
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...
Bill Johnston1782, Feb 11810
 
18601870, Feb 17
 a Thousand Islands smuggler, river pirate, and War of 1812 American privateer. His most famous un...
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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