The Life Experience of Sister Pirate

One of the two female pirates is mary read. According to records, she was born in London, England at the end of 17. She always wanted to be a sailor and a soldier since she was a child, just like Mulan. Mary read once fell in love with his comrades in the cavalry regiment and got married, but her husband died soon. She wandered around disguised as a man. She was captured by pirates on her way to the Caribbean with the ship, so she joined the gang and became one of them. Later, she was captured and sentenced to hang as a pirate. At that time, she was pregnant, and before the baby was born, she died of a fever in prison. Mary read made this statement in court: "In fact, hanging is nothing to be afraid of. If it weren't for hanging, those timid people might become pirates, so brave people would find no place to use them. "

Although speaking of pirates, it is difficult for people to tell which are facts and which are just legends, it is an indisputable fact that there have been female pirates in history. There is no doubt that/kloc-two female pirates on Jamaica Island in the early 8th century were among the best. It is said that Anne Bonnie was stabbed in the abdomen when she was a child. Later, she eloped with a sailor to a pirate sanctuary in New Provis. There, she managed to kill her husband, then started a new stove, grabbed a Dutch boat and started to go it alone. It was also there that she met mary read, who disguised herself as a man and had a long struggle with the Spanish. It is said that he often faced his opponents naked before killing them, proving to him that they were killed by women. After they were arrested on 1720, they were not hanged because they were pregnant. Their fate is much better than that of male pirates. Anne Bonnie just sneered at pirates. Here's what Anne Bonnie said to the infamous Spotted Jack before he was hanged: "I'm sorry to see you here, Jack, but if you fight like a man, you won't be hanged here like a dog."

Mary and Anne, two female pirates, were born in England and Ireland respectively. Mary is ten years older than Anne. Born in 1690, Mary is the illegitimate daughter of her widowed mother and a captain. Mother dressed Mary as a little boy instead of her eldest son who died young, and then defrauded her in-laws for alimony. They were very successful. Mary grew up until she was fifteen or sixteen, and no one discovered her secret. Therefore, Mary has developed a childish character, carelessness and aggressiveness. It also laid a character foundation for her to become a pirate.

When she was a little older, Mary became the lowest sailor on a merchant ship, and later she went to land to join the British army. Mary, who fought bravely, had hoped to be promoted to an officer until a handsome comrade-in-arms came into her life and they fell in love. After the war, Mary and her lover took off their military uniforms and opened a small hotel in the Netherlands with the demobilization fee. Unexpectedly, just at the beginning of a happy life, Mary's new husband died of illness and she became a widow. Forced to make a living, sad Mary had to put on men's clothes again and board an ocean-going merchant ship as a sailor. Soon after, the merchant ship was hijacked by pirates, either voluntarily or under duress. Mary joined the pirates. The captain of this pirate ship is Jack Lacken, and his lover Anne is also on board.

Anne is the illegitimate daughter of a successful Irish lawyer and domestic maid, and her relative living conditions are much better than Mary's. My father likes Annie very much. In order to take this lovely little girl, her father asked Anne to wear men's clothes since childhood, claiming that the little boy was his valet. Until one day, the lawyer's wife knew the truth. She couldn't stand her husband being with a maid and giving birth to such a child. She got into a fight with her husband and asked him to drive away the maid and minions at once. After a painful struggle, Anne's father made an amazing decision. He left home with Anne, her mother and daughter, and Ivesov. Three people crossed the Atlantic today to reach the east coast of the United States. Anne's father became a nouveau riche in business and bought a big manor. With the change of material life, Anne's childhood experience and the constant doting of her elders, Anne became lawless. Even when 13 years old, Annie stabbed a knife into the servant's stomach because of a little quarrel. /kloc-when she was 0/6 years old, Anne took a fancy to a little pirate, James Bonnie, and claimed that unless he didn't get married, her angry father couldn't bear to drive Anne out of the house. Stubborn and proud Anne simply changed her surname to Bonnie and got on a pirate ship. In Nassau, Anne met Jack Lacken, a pirate more fierce than James, so Anne dumped her husband James and became Jack's lover.

As soon as Mary joined Jack's pirate ship, out of women's sensitivity and appreciation of each other's fate, the two women knew each other's true gender. In the future, they will still wear men's clothes, but they are sisters in private.

In modern Europe, there used to be a whole set of superstitions and taboos about sailing. For example, throwing a lock of hair into the sea can get a downwind; Women's going to sea is probably the biggest navigation taboo in the east and west, and people believe that the opposite sex will bring bad luck to the crew. What makes modern people feel incredible is that these navigation taboos are not the golden rule of lawless pirates.

Jack Lacken's sailboat is much smaller than the big pirate Blackbeard's three-masted sailboat with 40 cannons. She only has a tilted mast and six cannons fixed on the deck, but this sloop is the most common pirate ship in the Caribbean era. They are afraid of warships and large armed merchant ships, but they are good at looting fishing boats and small cargo ships. Because they are light, flexible and shallow, they can run quickly in the sea full of shoals and reefs once they are chased by strong enemies.

The classic black skull flag we see most now comes from Jack Lacken: there are two machetes under the smiling skull. Such a simple pattern makes people see at a glance that the newcomer is a pirate, not a friend.

Under the banner of this black skull, Anne and Mary have always been the killers who charge ahead. Before they were shot down, all the other male pirates were drunk and asleep, and only the two of them were fighting back. During their trial, several seamen of merchant ship who were attacked by the pirate ship "William" where the female pirates were located testified that the two defendants, wearing men's shirts and trousers and wrapped their heads in towels, took the lead in jumping on our ship, holding a gun in one hand and a machete in the other, cursing the stunned crew with the dirtiest words and slashing the crew who dared to resist. The judge asked: How was it that two pirates were women? More than one witness said that they would proudly show their chests before killing people, and let their opponents know that they were killed by a woman's sword. It is precisely because Anne and Mary left a little trial record after being captured that people can understand their lives and experiences to a certain extent, which also makes the story of female pirates move from legend to truth. Also let the original humble "William" in the pirate ship, because of its two famous female pirates Anne Bonnie and mary read and lucky to be mentioned by future generations.

According to the belief of Europeans at that time, when the rich were sentenced to death, they had to be beheaded, while those who committed the most heinous crimes were hanged. The notorious pirates who were hated by people were hanged. But at the final trial, the two female pirates retracted their confessions and claimed that they were pregnant. This stunned the court at that time. So he sent a doctor to examine them and prove that they were really pregnant. Their execution was suspended until they gave birth. Unfortunately, Mary died in prison because of the plague. Anne's father spent a lot of money to redeem her from prison. After she remarried, she lived a quiet life. Until the establishment of the United States of America.