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As a young girl growing up I loved to read the stories of women who were warriors

this was why I had read much on the pirates of the Caribbena

here this the story that began my research

the privateer

Women Pirates

Anne Bonnie & Mary Read

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Born in London, England, Mary Read was raised as a boy. Disguised as a male, she served as a footboy, sailor, soldier, and pirate. Dressed as a man, Mary was on board a vessel bound for the West Indies when it was overtaken by the pirate, Captain “Calico Jack” Rackham. She accepted his offer to join the pirates on board his ship, the “Curlew”.
She now sailed under Captain Rackham, who had with him another woman pirate, Anne Bonny. They took a large number of ships belonging to Jamaica and from one of these took prisoner a young man with whom Mary fell deeply in love and would soon marry. This young man had a quarrel with one of the pirates and, as the ship lay at anchor, they were to go fight it out on shore according to pirate law. Mary, to save her young man, picked a quarrel with the same pirate and managed to have her duel at once. Fighting with sword and pistol, she killed him on the spot.
In October of 1720, the “Curlew” was attacked by an armed British sloop on orders from the Governor of Jamaica. While the rest of the pirate crew hid below deck, Read and her friend, Anne Bonny, and one other pirate took up the fight. Read shouted for the others to join them, but they refused. To scare them into action, Read fired her pistols down the hatch, killing one man and wounding others. But the pirates, including their husbands, still wouldn’t fight. Finally, the whole crew was captured and taken prisoner.
The following month, Read and the crew of the “Curlew” were found guilty of piracy and sentenced to hang. As Rackham went to the gallows, Bonnie told him, "Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hanged like a dog!" Both Read and Bonny were pregnant, so they were given a delay in execution until their babies were born. However, Read died from a high fever soon after the trial.

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