El caso de Jack Rackham, mejor conocido como
Ca-
lico Jack
, también es digno de mención. El apodo lo ob-
tuvo por vestir siempre de calicó, una tela de algodón
estampada por una de sus caras que era considerada
como una prendamuy elegante. Este pirata contó entre
su tripulación a las dos únicasmujeres de las que se tie-
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barco cayó en manos de los ingleses en 1720 (quienes
por cierto encontraron a la tripulación completamente
borracha). Condenadas a muerte, se les permutó ese
castigo por el de cárcel debido a que ambas estaban
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The case of Jack Rackham, better known as
Calico Jack, is also worth mentioning. He got
his nickname by wearing calico, a cotton fabric,
printed on one of its sides, regarded as a very
fancy apparel. This pirate had the only two wom-
en ever reported in the trade as part of his crew,
Anne Bonny and Marie Read. Bonny was Calico’s
lover and together they traversed around the Ca-
ribbean Sea, sowing fear and forging their own
legend. Anne and Marie were as brave as any of
their mates, if not more. Eventually, the ship fell
into the hands of the British in 1720 (who, by the
way, found the crew entirely drunk.). Sentenced
to death, both had their executions commuted to
incarceration as both were pregnant. Marie died
in prison and Anne, after her release, got married
and died in Virginia, USA, surrounded by her chil-
dren and grandchildren.
Other famous pirates were Henry Morgan (who
managed to become a governor of Jamaica); William
“Captain Kidd”; Edward Teach “Blackbeard” (former
member of the Royal Navy) who liked to appear
in combat, in the middle of a cloud of gunpowder
smoke, in order to add it drama; the Turkish pirate
Redbeard (Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha); Sir Francis
Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh.
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