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Chief of the Malay pirates in the Straits of Makassar, Raga took many European ships and beheaded their crews. His base at Kuala Batu, Sumatra, was destroyed by an American task force.
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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...
Peter Heaman17871821
 
 
18221822, Jan 9
 A French pirate, born in 1787. Sailed from Gibraltar in May, 1821, as mate on board the schooner ...
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...
Domingo Eucallaunknown1820
 
18231823, Feb 7
 A negro. Hanged at Kingston, Jamaica, on February 7th, 1823. Made a moving harangue to the specta...
Johanna Hard1789, Dec 31823
 
 
1823unknown
 Sweden's last pirate; in 1823, recently widowed Hård, a farm owner on Vrångö Island, was arres...
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...
Felix Barbeitounknown1820
 
18291827, Aug 17
 A member of Jacque Tardy's gang on the Crawford. Captured and hanged.
Lieutenant Bolivarunknown1820
 
1829unknown
 This Portuguese pirate was first officer to Captain Jonnia. He was a stout, well-built man of swa...
Jose Hilario Casarisunknown1820
 
18291827, Aug 17
 A member of Jacque Tardy's gang on the Crawford. Captured and hanged.
George James Davisunknown1820
 
18291830, Dec 16
 Captured, charged with piracy, and convicted. One of the last two final hangings on Execution Doc...
Juan Gutterezunknown1820
 
18291823, Feb 7
 Hanged at Kingston, Jamaica, on February 7th, 1823.
Augustus Hernandezunknown1820
 
18291823
 Hanged at Kingston, Jamaica, in 1823.
Juan Hernandezunknown1820
 
18291823, Feb 7
 Captured with nine other pirates by H.M. sloop-of-war Tyne and taken to Jamaica. Hanged on Februa...
La Cataunknown1820
 
1829unknown
 A most blood-thirsty pirate and one of the last of the West Indian gangs. In 1824, when La Cata w...
Manuel Limaunknown1820
 
18291823
 Taken by H.M. sloop Tyne, and hanged at Kingston, Jamaica, in February, 1823.
Captain Antonio el Majorcamunknown1820
 
1829unknown
 At one time an officer in the Spanish Navy. Became a notorious West Indian pirate, but about 1824...
Francesco Miguelunknown1820
 
18291823
 Hanged at Kingston, Jamaica, in 1823.
Jose Morandounknown1820
 
18291827, Aug 17
 A member of Jacque Tardy's gang on the Crawford. Captured and hanged.
Pedro Nondreunknown1820
 
18291823, Feb
 Hanged at Kingston, Jamaica, in February, 1823. At the time of execution it was observed that he ...
Captain Raphaelinaunknown1820
 
1829unknown
 Much dreaded by the merchant sailors navigating the South Atlantic. In 1822 he controlled a fleet...
William Watts [2]unknown1820
 
18291830, Dec 16
 Captured, charged with piracy, and convicted. One of the last two final hangings on Execution Doc...
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 Benito de Soto1805, Apr 221827
 
18301830, Jan 25
 a Galician pirate, and captain of the Burla Negra ("Black Joke"). Benito de Soto was the most not...
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...
John Andrew Murrell1804/6?1820
 
18341844
 a near-legendary bandit operating in the United States, along the Mississippi River, in the mid-n...
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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