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In the end, the embellished narrative leaves one unsure as to whether to trust anything seen and heard, which in turn sadly makes it difficult to care much for these characters.

Mary Read, English pirate of the 18th century who, with her crewmate Anne Bonny, became legendary as one of the few female pirates.

This Encyclopedia Britannica history list features 6 women pirates.

“If they catch you at disadvantage, the mines for your life is the word; and so we fight them with our colours nailed to the mast.” The Pirate, 1821. For over 4,000 years humanity has used some sort of device to communicate when not within hearing distance like smoke signals, drums, flashing lanterns or lights. Many times they would correspond with vexilloids which were metal or wooden poles with engravings on top. About 2,000 years ago, pieces of colored fabric or material were added to some of these vexilloids as a decoration, so they could be more readily recognized as a symbol, or fo...