How the 'wickedest city on Earth" was sunk by an earthquake - I
Published 29 Jul 2022, 09:35 BST
"Calico Jack" John Rackham is shown in a woodcut from a 1725 edition of A General History of the Pyrates.
Anne Bonny, to the left, and Mary Read, to the right, are seen in a colored version of Benjamin Cole's engraving for an edition of A General History of the Pyrates.
Photograph by Stefano Bianchetti, Bridgeman
A colored portrait of a woodcut from a 1725 edition of A General History of the Pyrates shows Charles Vane.
Photograph by Science History Images, Alamy
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