Mary reed black sails. Ann Bonnie: biography, personal life, family, films

Ann Bonnie grew up in the family of a lawyer, but she never became a diligent girl. On the contrary, she fell in love with a corsair and went down in history as a loving and bloodthirsty pirate.

Anne Bonnie was born in Ireland in 1700. Because of her father's adultery with a maid and the ensuing scandal, the family had to move to North America. In South Carolina, my father became a prosperous planter and made a fortune. Ann grew up in an expensive mansion, and no expense was spared on her education. But this was not enough to tame the rebellious spirit of the eccentric girl. She was considered unbalanced, even the incident is known when she stabbed a maid.

The father was already going to marry Ann, but the stubborn girl decided everything in her own way. She fell in love with a simple sailor James Bonnie, married him and left home.

19-year-old Ann Bonnie was waiting for her husband from the sea for a long time when she met Jack Rackham. young and Attractive man, dressed in bright costumes, she really liked. Rackham was a pirate who traded in the capture of Spanish ships.

Ann Bonnie began to participate in campaigns with Rackham. The presence of a woman on a ship is a disaster, the superstitious sailors of those years considered, and she had to hide under the guise of a young man, dressed in a sailor's robe. At night, she cohabited with the captain, and during the day she took part in boarding battles. In the team of corsair cutthroats, she stood out for her cruelty, she was the first to rush into battle, she was ruthless with prisoners.

When Ann Bonnie gave birth to a son for the captain, she left him with friends on the shore, and she herself returned to the sea, no longer hiding. During the capture of the next ship, the attention of a pirate was attracted by a young sailor. He was very handsome, with a pretty face, like a girl's. Ann Bonnie did not kill him, deciding to try it in bed. It was the Englishwoman Mary Read. Previously, she managed to serve in the army (naturally, posing as a man), fought and traveled.

Ann, Mary and Jack began to live together in a unique love triangle. According to eyewitnesses, the girls fought, drank and used foul language on a par with men. For three months they robbed passing ships until they were ambushed. In 1720, during the capture of a pirate ship, many of the men quickly surrendered, but Anne and Mary fought as best they could.

The entire team of corsairs was sentenced to death, but the girls were not touched because of their pregnancy. Their further fate is practically unknown. According to one version, Ann Bonnie was helped by her father, who brought her home and married her to a respectable man.

Anne Bonnie's companion Mary Read soon died of a fever. During her life, she managed to see a lot, as she served in the infantry, then in the cavalry, and was in the war. For bravery and cruelty

Anne Bonny was born on March 8, 1700 in a small town near Cork, Ireland, where her father, William Cormac, was a lawyer. When the girl was five years old, he went overseas to South Carolina, where he became the owner of a large plantation. Anna's childhood was spent in a rich colonial mansion with many servants. The father of the soul doted on his beloved daughter and did not spare money to give her a good education.

She was considered a good match, and her father was already looking for a profitable groom for her. But she made him unhappy by secretly marrying James Bonnie, a simple sailor who did not have a single penny in his pocket. Hiding from an angry father, the newlyweds boarded a ship bound for the island of New Providence.

Arriving at the place, she quickly made friends with the wealthy planter Childy Bayard. However, an ugly story soon occurred, as a result of which Annie was implicated in the murder of the cousin of the governor of Jamaica. Ann was thrown into prison, though not for long. Fortunately for her, Bayard did not skimp on a substantial bribe to get her out of there. Together with him, Ann made several trading trips to the New World.

After a while, she became weary of Bayard's company. In May 1719, she met the pirate John Rackham in one of the taverns, who began to show her constant signs of attention. Ann changed into men's clothing and followed Rackham, who took her to sea with him.

Ann Bonnie always accompanied him and repeatedly proved to Rackham that she would not yield to anyone in courage and ability to fight. By chance, they seized the ship on which Mary Reed, disguised as a man, was sailing. Reid, who had military training behind her, was the only passenger who did not surrender to the pirates and accepted the fight. After a few failed attempts cope with Reid, she was offered to join the team and she agreed. Since that time, Bonnie, Reed and Rackham have been pirating together.

In October 1720, Mary, Ann and Rackham were nevertheless caught by Captain Jonathan Barnet on the orders of the Governor of Jamaica, Woods Rogers.

When Rackham was sentenced to death, he was allowed, in the form of the greatest favor, to see Ann Bonnie, but instead of consolation before her death, she told her friend that he resented her with such a pitiful appearance:

If you had fought like a man, you wouldn't have been hanged like a dog!
Her execution was constantly delayed due to pregnancy and, in the end, the sentence was never carried out. From that moment on, Ann Bonnie's story disappears from official records. There are several (absolutely unsubstantiated) assumptions about her future fate. According to one of them, she again contacted the pirates and died in one of the boarding battles. According to another, it was redeemed by its rich family. According to the Oxford Dictionary national biography(Eng. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography), evidence presented by Ann's descendants says the following about her later life:

Her father managed to secure the release of Ann Bonnie from prison and bring her back to Charleston, where she gave birth to Rackham's second child. On December 21, 1721, she married Joseph Burghley, with whom they subsequently had ten children. She died on April 22, 1782 in South Carolina, a respectable woman at the age of eighty-two, and was buried on April 24 of that year.

According to Forgotten Tales of South Carolina by Sherman Carmichael, Anne Bonnie is buried in York County Cemetery, Virginia.

The famous female pirate of Irish origin, Ann Bonnie, whose fame and popularity are comparable, perhaps, only with her namesake, who robbed banks in America, in recent times more and more people are interested. This is due, of course, to the widespread romanticization of the image of pirates in literature and cinema, as well as recent sensational novelties on the small screens.

Birth, family and relocation

The future pirate was born on March 8, 1700 in Country Cork, which is located in Ireland. At birth, the girl's name was Ann Cormac. Her father was a successful lawyer, Edward Cormac, and her mother was his wife's maid. Other sources at the same time claim that Anne Bonnie's father is William Cormac. Because of the impending big scandal, the head of the family, along with his wife and five-year-old Ann, had to leave their home.

The girl began to live in South Carolina, where her father acquired extensive plantations. Here, young Ann received a good education for those times. The well-bred girl spent her entire childhood in her father's colonial mansion, having many servants and privileges. However, decent upbringing and quality education could not suppress the violent temperament.

Growing up and leaving the parental home

Over the years, the girl's behavior became less and less controllable. Ann showed her unbridled temper in different ways. For example, she could ride naked to the waist. According to rumors, once a young Ann Bonnie stabbed a maid in her parents' mansion. According to one version, the case was even considered in court, but the father's lawyer connections contributed to his speedy jamming.

Believing that there was only one way to help his daughter, Edward began to look for a suitable groom for Ann. It was not so difficult to do this, because Ann was considered a good match. But the father did not have time to put his plan into practice. His daughter got ahead of him and married a simple and unknown sailor named James Bonnie. According to popular belief, the sailor James was penniless and soon after meeting the girl found out about the possessions of her family.

Edward Cormac could not convince his daughter and upset her wedding with the poor. However, he managed to completely cut James and Ann Bonnie off his fortune. The father's anger was so great that the young had to board the nearest ship, which was heading to the island of New Providence.

First adventure on the island

Once on the island, Ann made an acquaintance with a local wealthy plantation owner named Childy Bayard. Some time after that, the girl was accused of assisting the murderers of the cousin of the Jamaican governor. Ann was thrown into a prison cell, but Childy rescued her from there by paying the right people big bribe.

The freed girl stayed with the planter and went with him on several trips to the New World. Trade travels and Bayard himself at some point bored the young pirate, after which she began to look for a new company. In May 1719, Anne met Jack Rackham, nicknamed Calico, in a New Providence tavern. Jack and his lifestyle as a desperate criminal made a lasting impression on the young girl.

The beginning of a pirate life and the first steps

Rackham's constant attentions strengthened the bond between him and Bonnie. Upon learning that he was about to leave the island on a pirate ship, Ann made a key decision in her life. Soon the girl changed into men's clothes in order to follow Jack to the pirate ship, which was just about to go to sea.

At the same time, Governor Woods Rogers granted amnesty to all pirates and thereby contributed to a new growth in the pirate industry. Jack, along with the crew, noted more than once Ann's ability to stand up for herself and fight on an equal footing with the rest of the ship's crew when necessary. Pirate Anne Bonnie's courage was definitely undeniable.

Activities at sea and acquaintance with Mary

Rackham served as quartermaster on a ship under the command of Charles Vane. During the voyage, Ann got the hang of handling both edged weapons and a pistol. Once, while capturing another merchant ship, a team of pirates encountered resistance from one of the crew members, which at that time was quite rare. The only member of the crew who had enviable army training bothered to take the fight. After several unsuccessful attempts to cope with the fighting Englishman, the pirates invited the enemy to join their team.

Unexpectedly for everyone, the newly minted member of the pirate team turned out to be a girl named Mary Reed. During subsequent voyages, she became close friends with Ann and Jack, after which they always pirated together.

Arrest, imprisonment and execution

After a year and a half of active pirate robbery, the team, along with Ann Bonnie, Mary Reid and Jack Rackham, was caught and captured by Captain Jonathan Barnet on the orders of the Jamaican governor Woodes Rogers. The entire crew was sentenced to death by hanging in October 1720.

After the capture, it was also revealed that Ann and Mary were pregnant. as an exception without precedent, he was allowed to see his beloved Ann before the execution. The words uttered by the girl to Jack were quite unexpected. She expressed indignation at Rackham's pitiful appearance, saying the phrase that went down in history: "If you had fought like a man, you would not have been hanged like a dog."

After that, Jack Rackham was executed, and the pregnant woman died in a prison cell from a fever. Ann's execution was always postponed for humanitarian reasons, waiting for the end of her pregnancy. Surviving sources claim that the sentence was never carried into effect.

Further fate

At this point, the lines of the reliable biography of the pirate Ann Bonnie break off. The further life of the girl is described for the most part not by historical references, but by the legends that were born then.

According to rumors and stories, Governor Rogers gave Anne freedom, after which the former pirate married Captain Roberts, taking an active part in his campaigns on Port Royal. Another version says that Bonnie again contacted the pirates and died in one of the many battles.

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography contains somewhat different information about the fate of the famous pirate. According to his data, the father was able to free Ann from prison, return her to her home in Charleston. After the girl gave birth to a child, Jack, and on December 21, 1721, she remarried. This time Ann's chosen one was Joseph Burley, from whom she gave birth to ten more children. Natural death came to a woman at a respectable age, at 82 years old. Ann died on April 22, 1782, and was buried two days later in York County Cemetery in Virginia. The place of burial is specified in "Forgotten stories of South Carolina" by Sherman Carmichael.

Disclosure of the image in film and music

Many performers in various musical genres dedicated songs to Anne Bonnie, who has become one of the most colorful images of female pirates of all time. The list of tracks about the famous pirate includes the following songs:

• Danielle Kluger - "Lady Luck";
• Karliene - Anne Bonny;
• Zed Yago
• Laura Veers - Anne Bonny Rag;
• Death Grips - Anne Bonny;
• Bread and Roses - The Ballad of Anne Bonny and Mary Read;
• "Security System" - "Anne Bonnie".

Anne's image has been used in countless pirate-themed films. Recently, many viewers have met the famous heroine again, thanks to a television show that was released in 2014. The new vision of Anne Bonnie from Black Sails was praised by both viewers and critics. The drama series also featured the pirate Jack Rackham, Governor Woods Rogers, and several other historical characters. As part of the TV show, three seasons were released, the series ended in 2017. Played the role of Ann Bonnie actress Clara Paget.

Ann lived a bright and, no doubt, interesting life, her path was full of desperate adventures and exciting journeys. It is unlikely that it will ever be possible to find out the reliable truth about what really happened to her. Nevertheless, the image of the female pirate Ann is firmly entrenched in the minds and has become part of the historical heritage.

She was considered a good match, and her father was already looking for a profitable groom for her. But she made him unhappy by secretly marrying D. Bonnie, a simple sailor who did not have a single penny in his pocket. Hiding from an angry father, the newlyweds boarded a ship bound for the island of New Providence.

Arriving at the place, she quickly made friends with the wealthy planter Childy Bayard. However, an ugly story soon occurred, as a result of which Annie was implicated in the murder of the cousin of the governor of Jamaica. Ann was thrown into jail, though not for long. Fortunately for her, Bayard did not skimp on a substantial bribe to get her out of there. With him, Ann made several trading trips to the New World.

After a while, she became weary of Bayard's company. In May 1719, she met in one of the taverns with the pirate D. Rackham, who began to give her constant signs of attention. Ann changed into men's clothing and followed Rackham, who took her to sea with him.

Ann Bonnie always accompanied him and repeatedly proved to Rackham that she would not yield to anyone in courage and ability to fight. By chance, they captured the ship on which M. Reed, disguised as a man, was sailing. Reed, who had army training behind her, was the only passenger who did not surrender to the pirates and took the fight. After several unsuccessful attempts to deal with Reid, she was offered to join the team and she accepted. Since that time, Bonnie, Reed and Rackham have been pirating together.

In literature

In popular culture

Music

• Veers, Laura - "Anne Bonny Rag";

Fiction

• Novels
  • Powers, Tim - In unknown waves;
  • Rykes, Cathy Seizure;
  • Robin Hobb - Saga of the Living Ships;
  • Pamela Jaeckel - star of the sea;
  • Ian McDowell Under the flag of the night
  • George MacDonald Fraser - Pirates;
  • Erica Jong - Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones.
• Books
  • Pamela Johnson - Pirate heart. A novel about Ann Bonnie;
  • John Karlova - mistress of the seas;
  • Robert Hoyt - Anne Bonnie: A Tale of a Pirate Woman;
  • Riley, Sandra- Sisters of the Sea: Anne Bonnie and Mary Read, Pirates of the Caribbean.
• short stories
  • Grey, Alasdair - Ballad of Anne Bonny.
• Poetry
  • Artois, Robert (poet) - Pretty Ann.

Films and videos

• The Spanish Main (1945)
• Anna the Pirate Queen (1951)
• Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl (1954)
• The Buccaneers - Gentleman Jack and the Lady (1956) (TV episode)
• The Pirates (1986) (TV)
• Pirates (1998)
• Die Abrafaxe – Unter schwarzer Flagge (2001)
• Pirates of Treasure Island (2006)
• Pirates Sky/Discovery Channel (TV, documentary)
• The Truth About Caribbean Pirates (2006) (TV, documentary)
• Carolina Stories: Pirates of the Carolinas (2007) (TV, documentary)
• Case Closed: Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure (2007)
• Black sails (Black Sails) (2014) (TV)

Anime & Manga Games

• Pirate's Cove (board game 2002)
• Anachronism(board game)
• The 39 Clues, book 9 (interactive novel series and game)
• Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (PlayStation 4 exclusive)

• Under external good manners beautiful girl hiding violent temperament, delivering a lot of trouble to parents. For example, she shocked the local community by riding naked to the waist. And once, in a fit of anger, she stabbed her servant with a knife. The case did not go to court only thanks to the influence of the father and his legal sophistication, which helped to hush up the terrible story. After that, the lawyer decided to quickly marry off his daughter in the hope that this would calm her down.
• One Piece anime and manga character Jewelry Bonnie is named after Anne Bonnie
• In the book "39 Keys: Storm Warning." Ann Bonnie is one of the Cahills, belonging to the Madrigal branch.
• AT computer game Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Anne Bonnie is one of the twelve "founding fathers" of the legendary pirate colony - Libertalia.

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Notes

Source

• ["Ann Bonny and Mary Read"s Trial". Pirate Documents. Retrieved 14 March 2014.]

An excerpt characterizing Bonnie, Ann

- Why agree, we do not need bread.
- Well, should we quit everything? Do not agree. Disagree... There is no our consent. We pity you, but there is no our consent. Go on your own, alone ... - was heard in the crowd with different sides. And again the same expression appeared on all the faces of this crowd, and now it was probably no longer an expression of curiosity and gratitude, but an expression of embittered determination.
“Yes, you didn’t understand, right,” said Princess Marya with a sad smile. Why don't you want to go? I promise to accommodate you, feed you. And here the enemy will ruin you ...
But her voice was drowned out by the voices of the crowd.
- There is no our consent, let them ruin! We do not take your bread, there is no our consent!
Princess Mary tried again to catch someone's gaze from the crowd, but not a single glance was directed at her; her eyes obviously avoided her. She felt strange and uncomfortable.
“Look, she taught me cleverly, follow her to the fortress!” Ruin the houses and into bondage and go. How! I'll give you bread! voices were heard in the crowd.
Princess Mary, lowering her head, left the circle and went into the house. Having repeated the order to Dron that there should be horses for departure tomorrow, she went to her room and was left alone with her thoughts.

For a long time that night Princess Marya sat at open window in her room, listening to the sounds of peasants talking from the village, but she did not think about them. She felt that no matter how much she thought about them, she could not understand them. She kept thinking about one thing - about her grief, which now, after the break made by worries about the present, has already become past for her. She could now remember, she could cry and she could pray. As the sun went down, the wind died down. The night was calm and cool. At twelve o'clock the voices began to subside, a rooster crowed, full moon, a fresh, white dew mist rose, and silence reigned over the village and over the house.
One after another, she imagined pictures of the close past - illness and the last moments of her father. And with sad joy she now dwelled on these images, driving away from herself with horror only one last idea of ​​​​his death, which - she felt - she was unable to contemplate even in her imagination at this quiet and mysterious hour of the night. And these pictures appeared to her with such clarity and in such detail that they seemed to her either reality, or the past, or the future.
Then she vividly imagined the moment when he had a stroke and he was being dragged from the garden in the Bald Mountains by the arms and he was muttering something in an impotent tongue, twitching his gray eyebrows and looking restlessly and timidly at her.
“He wanted to tell me even then what he told me on the day of his death,” she thought. “He always thought what he said to me.” And now she remembered with all the details that night in the Bald Mountains on the eve of the blow that happened to him, when Princess Mary, anticipating trouble, stayed with him against his will. She did not sleep and went downstairs on tiptoe at night and, going to the door to the flower room, where her father spent the night that night, she listened to his voice. He was saying something to Tikhon in an exhausted, tired voice. He seemed to want to talk. "Why didn't he call me? Why didn't he allow me to be here in Tikhon's place? thought then and now Princess Marya. - He will never tell anyone now all that was in his soul. This moment will never return for him and for me when he would say everything that he wanted to express, and I, and not Tikhon, would listen and understand him. Why didn't I come into the room then? she thought. “Perhaps he would have told me then what he said on the day of his death. Even then, in a conversation with Tikhon, he asked twice about me. He wanted to see me, and I was standing there, outside the door. He was sad, it was hard to talk with Tikhon, who did not understand him. I remember how he spoke to him about Liza, as if alive - he forgot that she was dead, and Tikhon reminded him that she was no longer there, and he shouted: "Fool." It was hard for him. I heard from behind the door how, groaning, he lay down on the bed and shouted loudly: “My God! Why didn’t I go up then? What would he do to me? What would I lose? Or maybe then he would have consoled himself, he would have said this word to me. And Princess Marya uttered aloud that affectionate word that he had spoken to her on the day of his death. “Dude she nka! - Princess Marya repeated this word and sobbed tears that relieved her soul. She saw his face in front of her now. And not the face she had known since she could remember, and which she had always seen from afar; and that face - timid and weak, which on the last day, bending down to his mouth in order to hear what he was saying, for the first time examined closely with all its wrinkles and details.
"Darling," she repeated.
What was he thinking when he said that word? What does he think now? - suddenly a question came to her, and in response to this she saw him in front of her with the expression on his face that he had in the coffin on his face tied with a white handkerchief. And the horror that seized her when she touched him and became convinced that it was not only not him, but something mysterious and repulsive, seized her even now. She wanted to think about something else, she wanted to pray, and there was nothing she could do. She's big open eyes she looked at the moonlight and the shadows, every second she expected to see his dead face and felt that the silence that stood over the house and in the house chained her.
- Dunyasha! she whispered. - Dunyasha! she cried in a wild voice and, breaking out of the silence, ran to the girls' room, towards the nanny and girls running towards her.

On August 17, Rostov and Ilyin, accompanied by Lavrushka and the escort hussar, who had just returned from captivity, from their Yankovo ​​camp, fifteen miles from Bogucharov, went riding - to try a new horse bought by Ilyin and find out if there is hay in the villages.
Bogucharovo had been between the two enemy armies for the last three days, so that the Russian rearguard could just as easily enter there as the French avant-garde, and therefore Rostov, as a caring squadron commander, wanted to take advantage of the provisions that remained in Bogucharov before the French.
Rostov and Ilyin were in the most cheerful mood. On the way to Bogucharovo, to the princely estate with a manor, where they hoped to find a large household and pretty girls, they first asked Lavrushka about Napoleon and laughed at his stories, then they drove, trying Ilyin's horse.
Rostov did not know and did not think that this village to which he was going was the estate of that same Bolkonsky, who was his sister's fiancé.
Rostov and Ilyin let the horses out for the last time in the cart in front of Bogucharov, and Rostov, having overtaken Ilyin, was the first to jump into the street of the village of Bogucharov.
“You took it ahead,” said Ilyin, flushed.
“Yes, everything is forward, and forward in the meadow, and here,” answered Rostov, stroking his soaring bottom with his hand.
“And I’m in French, Your Excellency,” Lavrushka said from behind, calling his draft horse French, “I would have overtaken, but I just didn’t want to shame.
They walked up to the barn, where a large crowd of peasants was standing.
Some peasants took off their hats, some, without taking off their hats, looked at the approachers. Two long old peasants, with wrinkled faces and sparse beards, came out of the tavern and with smiles, swaying and singing some awkward song, approached the officers.

Ann Bonnie and Mary Reid The most famous and fierce female pirates in history are the only ones known to have done so in the Western Hemisphere. Ann Bonnie, born in County Cork, Ireland, was the illegitimate daughter of lawyer William Cormac and his maid. They emigrated to America after Anna's birth in the late 1600s and settled on a plantation near Charleston, South Carolina. A headstrong young woman "of a fierce and virile nature", she eloped with a young ne'er-do-well, James Bonnie, against her father's wishes.

James took her to a pirate's lair in New Providence in the Bahamas, but in 1718, when the Bahamian governor offered a king's pardon for any pirate, James turned out to be an informant. Ann Bonnie disgusted by his cowardice and shortly thereafter she met and fell in love with a swaggering pirate captain named Jack Rackham. Disguised as a man Ann Bonnie began sailing with him on his boat of vanity, with his famous skull and crossed daggers on the flag, hunting Spanish treasure ships bound for Cuba and Haiti. She reportedly got pregnant by Jack and estranged herself from piracy, only to have a baby and leave him with friends in Cuba before returning to her life of adventure on the high seas.

Mary Reid born in Plymouth, England, circa 1690. Her mother's husband was a navigator who went on a long voyage and was never heard from. He left his wife pregnant and she gave birth to a sickly boy who died shortly after the illegitimate birth of his half-sister, Maria. The mother was waiting for her husband, but when her money ran out, she took Mary to London to ask her mother-in-law for financial help. She knew that this old woman didn't like girls, so she dressed Mary in the clothes of a boy, like a son. The mother-in-law was misled and promised a crown a week to help support them. Mary Reid continued to pretend to be a boy for many years, even after the old woman died and the financial aid ended. Then a teenager, Mary was hired as a page to a Frenchwoman.

But, according to history, “here she did not live long, brave and strong, and also having a sharp mind, she found herself on board the governor's sloop, where she worked for some time. Then she left him. However, disguised as a man, Mary Reid enlisted in the land regiment in Flanders, and then the cavalry regiment, served in both with honors. She fell in love with another soldier, revealing her true gender, and began to dress like a woman. After their marriage, she and her husband became the owners of the "Three Horseshoes", next to Breda Castle in Holland. Unfortunately, he died young and her fate soon changed.

She knew that life in the 1700s was much easier for a man than a woman, so Mary Reid returned to men's clothing and began her former life, this time on a Dutch merchant ship went to the Caribbean. But on one voyage, the ship was captured by pirates, whom she fought until they accepted a pardon from the king in 1718 and began working as privateers.

Shortly thereafter, their ship was captured by the vain Captain Jack Rackham and, from a boring legal life, she returned to piracy again.

Ann Bonnie and Mary Reid quickly discovered each other, became close friends and, secretly from the captain, enriched themselves. Despite the tough appearance, Mary Reid found a lover on board and is said to have saved his life by protecting him from the threat of a duel. She in the fight with her opponent, with the use of weapons, won.

Both Anna and Maria were known for their violent tempers and ferocity in combat, and they earned a reputation as the "fierce cats of hell". Their fellow crew members knew that - during the period of action - no one was as ruthless and bloodthirsty as these two women.

Captain Jack was known for his love of colorful cotton robes and was a famous pirate in those days, but his reputation survived so many centuries primarily because of these two infamous female pirates in his crew.

In late October 1720, Rackham's ship was at anchor off Cape Negril, Jamaica, the pirates celebrating recent victories in their typical tradition. Suddenly, a British navy sloop led by Captain Jonathan Barnet saw them. The drunken pirates quickly hid below deck, leaving only Ann Bonnie and Mary Reid to protect your ship. The women yelled at their fellow pirates to "think up, you cowards, and fight like men" and then fought fiercely, killing one and injuring several others.

But the women were eventually smitten with the British navy, and the entire crew was captured and taken to Jamaica to stand trial. Captain Jack and his crew were convicted on November 16, 1720, and were sentenced to be hanged. Ann Bonnie was allowed to visit her lover in his cell before his execution, and instead of the comforting, loving words he no doubt expected, her blunt comments live on throughout the story:

"If you had fought like a man, you wouldn't have been hanged like a dog."

Ann Bonnie and Mary Reid were convicted a week after the death of the team and were also found guilty. But at their sentencing, when asked by the judge if they had anything to say, they replied, "My lord, we recognize our bellies." Both were pregnant, and since British law forbade the killing of an unborn child, the punishment was temporarily suspended. Mary Reid is said to have died of a fever in the city's Spanish prison in 1721, before the child was born. Other sources say that her death was feigned and she slipped out of prison under a shroud. No record of execution Ann Bonnie, was never found. Some say her rich dad bought her a release after the baby was born and she lived a quiet life. family life on a small Caribbean island. Others believe that she lived her life in the south of England, owning a tavern where she served local residents with tales of her exploits. And others say that Ann Bonnie and Mary Reid moved to Louisiana where they raised their children together and were friends for the rest of their lives.