Most Notorious Pirates

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

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Glamourized today, Pirates were fearsome marauders of the sea.  Many began as privateers hired by governments to helm war ships or commercial trips. 

There were lady Buccaneers ... Anne Bonny child of the plantation and Ching Shih female captain from a Cantonese brothel.

Black Bart Robers, British sea robber Blackbeard, Scottish Captain Kidd, blood thirsty Black Sam Bellamy, the captain Henry Morgan, Jolly Roger pioneer Jack Calico Rackham, Sir Francis Drake the noble outlaw and Turkish corsairs red beard Barbarossa brothers Aruj and Hizir.

Villains of the sea.