The Successful Pyrate is a play by Charles Johnson, first performed 1712, published 1713, dealing with the life of the pirate Henry Avery. It opened at...
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Charles Johnson was the British author of the 1724 book A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates, whose identity remains...
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1712 in literature (category Years of the 18th century in literature)
becomes known as the Bandbox Plot. November 7 – Charles Johnson's dramatisation of episodes from the life of Henry Every, The Successful Pyrate, receives its...
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Piracy (redirect from Piracy in the East Indies)
Pirates World Republic of Pirates Raid (military) Space pirate The Successful Pyrate, an historical play Train robbery, a.k.a. railroad piracy Women...
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Henry Every (redirect from The King of Pirates)
tragicomedy The Successful Pyrate. It proved to be at once both controversial and successful, and was performed to regaled audiences at the Theatre Royal...
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Plymouth (redirect from The weather in Plymouth)
products from the colonies. Local sailors turning to piracy such as Henry Every became infamous, celebrated in the London play The Successful Pyrate. It played...
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Barton Booth (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Horatio in The Wife's Relief by Charles Johnson (1711) Rinaldo in The City Ramble by Elkanah Settle (1711) Arviragus in The Successful Pyrate by Charles...
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1712 in Great Britain (redirect from 1712 in the United Kingdom)
Spectator Thomas Ellwood, Davideis: The Life of King David of Israel The Successful Pyrate by Charles Johnson. 17 January – John Stanley, composer (died 1786)...
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Sally Timms (category The Mekons members)
Chicago Tribune, 21 September 1997. Retrieved 16 September 2013 "Christmas Pyrate Panto", Time Out Chicago, 3 April 2005. Retrieved 16 September 2013 Powers...
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(1711) Sergeant Dolt in The Successful Pyrate (1712) Merit in The Wife of Bath (1713) Euribartes in The Victim (1714) Fondlewife in The Old Bachelor (1715)...
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(1709) De Sale in The Successful Pyrate by Charles Johnson (1712) Lucius in Cato, a Tragedy by Joseph Addison (1713) Ulysses in The Victim by Charles...
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Constant in The Man's Bewitched by Susanna Centlivre (1709) Carlo in The City Ramble by Elkanah Settle (1711) Boreal in The Successful Pyrate by Charles...
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Anne Bonny (category Pages using embedded infobox templates with the title parameter)
background is unknown. The first biography of Bonny comes from Captain Charles Johnson's 1724 book A General History of the Pyrates, though the information presented...
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In 1712, The Successful Pyrate was acted, and John Dennis complained to Charles Killigrew, Master of the Revels that the play glamorized the pirate Henry...
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William Pinkethman (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
at Drury Lane, the original Tipple in Injured Love; on 7 November 1712 the first Sir Gaudy Tulip, an old beau, in the Successful Pyrate; on 29 January...
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Bartholomew Roberts (category Pages using embedded infobox templates with the title parameter)
adopting an early variant of the Skull and Crossbones flag. Roberts's infamy and success saw him become known as The Great Pyrate and eventually as Black Bart...
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Young Outwit in The Rival Fools by Colley Cibber (1709) Volatil in The Wife's Relief by Charles Johnson (1711) Aranes in The Successful Pyrate by Charles Johnson...
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Khambhat (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
Compendious History of the Indian Wars with an Account of the Rise, Progress, Strength and Forces of Angria the Pyrate. Also the Transactions of a Squadron...
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Pompey (redirect from Pompey the Great)
Spoletium but the latter managed to escape. Pompey resumed his march to join Sulla's command. Not long afterwards Pompey successfully ambushed another...
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Edward Low (category Pages using embedded infobox templates with the title parameter)
place around 1724, have been the subject of much postulation. According to Charles Johnson's A General History of the Pyrates, Edward Low was born in Westminster...
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Razee (category History of the Royal Navy)
pirates – Charles Johnson's A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates describes George Lowther refitting Gambia Castle...
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Sadie Farrell (redirect from Sadie the Goat)
handful of the ship's crew, she offered her services to the men and became the gang's leader. Within days, she engineered the successful hijacking of...
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History of the Pyrates by Charles Johnson, the prime source for the biographies of many well known pirates, giving an almost mythical status to the more colorful...
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attacked during the year by the pirates, with zero successful hijackings. Control Risks attributed this 90% decline in pirate activity from the corresponding...
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Golden Age of Piracy (redirect from The Golden Age of Piracy)
Benjamin Hornigold, and Edward England. The attack was successful, but contrary to their expectations, the governor of Jamaica refused to allow Jennings...
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to claim the seas for themselves. They assembled in the First Brethren Court and Jones successfully taught them how to imprison her into her human form...
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Christopher Condent (category Piracy in the Indian Ocean)
Press, 2014 ISBN 9781139916264 Johnson, Charles (1724). The history of the pyrates: containing the lives of Captain Mission. Captain Bowen. Captain Kidd...
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Kane. Caniff purportedly named the character after an island next to the isle of Lesbos. Over time, owing to a successful collaboration with cartoonist...
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Privateer (redirect from Privateers in the American Civil War)
of the war. De Wolf's ship, the Yankee, was possibly the most financially successful ship of the war. Privateers proved to be far more successful than...
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overboard.: 90 Johnson published the statute relating to piracy in the early 18th century in A General History of the Pyrates. The crime was differentiated from...
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