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Ranger (12-gun brigantine) Charles Vane (c. 1680 – 29 March 1721) was an English pirate who operated in the Bahamas during the end of the Golden Age of Piracy. Vane was likely born in the Kingdom of England around 1680. One of his first pirate ventures was under the leadership of Henry Jennings, during Jennings' attack on the salvage camp for ...
Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, KG, GCB, GCH, PC (born Charles William Stewart; 1778–1854) was an Anglo-Irish nobleman, a British soldier and a politician. He served in the French Revolutionary Wars, in the suppression of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, and in the Napoleonic wars. He excelled as a cavalry commander in the ...
Vane and his men then escaped in a small sloop via the harbour's narrow east entrance. The pirates had evaded the trap, but Nassau and New Providence Island were in Rogers' hands. [45] Charles Vane. At the time, the island's population consisted of about 200 former pirates and several hundred fugitives who had escaped from nearby Spanish colonies.
Charles Vane was a pirate renowned for his sadistic and cruel ways. He ignored the Pirate code and showed little respect for his fellow crew members, despite his wittiness and skillfulness when it came to sailing. He was merciless towards his prisoners, turning to torture and murder when given the opportunity.
Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, KG , MVO , PC , PC (Ire) (13 May 1878 – 10 February 1949), styled Lord Stewart until 1884 and Viscount Castlereagh between 1884 and 1915, was a British peer and politician. He is best remembered for his tenure as Secretary of State for Air in the 1930s and for his ...
Anne Bonny. Anne Bonny[a] (disappeared after 28 November 1720) [4] was a pirate who served under John “Calico Jack” Rackham. Amongst the few recorded female pirates in history, [5] she has become one of the most recognised pirates of the era as well as in the history of piracy in general. Much of Bonny's background is unknown.
Charles Vane also rejoined Jennings' crew. [1] When Jennings sailed with the Bersheba to the wrecks this third time, he was under direct orders of Daniel De Costa Alvarenga, a Jewish merchant from Kingston who was the new owner of the sloop. Hamilton tried to stop the Bersheba from sailing on this trip, but was ignored as it had official ...
Around April 1718, Henry Jennings took a privateering commission from Bennett to hunt Charles Vane. [61] A year later, shortly after news of the War of the Quadruple Alliance arrived in New Providence, [78] pirates from the Bahamas surrendered to Bennett in April 1719 and received the king's pardon. That May, more pirates surrendered on ...