Who is Mary Read
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Mary Read one of the lady Pirates.
Mary was born and illegitimate girl, but when her older bother died, her mother dressed her up as a boy to pass her off as the deceased bother
To collect and inheritance. The ruse worked and Read and her mother lived on the inheritancewell into her teenage years.
She evetually married, but after her husbands death she was bored and set sail for the West Indies dressed as a man.
On the way Calico Jack and his companion, the female pirate Anne Bonny, attacked her ship.
She ended up joining the crew.
Three reasons to love Mary Read
1: One of only a few female pirates2: She could fight as well or better then most men.
3: Instead of pleading for mercy, Mary told the court, "As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the sea, that men of courage must starve."
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Information on other pirates
- Morgan The Pirate
- Henry Morgan 1635-1688 Morgan was an admiral and general, country gentleman and planter, custos and judge of the court of Vice-Admiralty, governor and a knight.He was also the most ruthless and feared pirate of all time.
- Charles Vane
- Charles Vane terrorized the Caribbean in the early 1700's. But in 1720 that all came to an end when he lost his ship in a storm.
- Christopher Condent
- Flying the 3 skull and cross bone flag. He attacked merchant ships off Africa and Aruba.
- Pirate Walter Kennedy
- Served with Bartholomew Roberts in the early 1700's plundering the Spanish Maine.
- Henry Every
- One of the most famous of all English pirates. He severed in the Royal Navy before turning to plunder the seas.
Books on Anne Bonny and Mary Read
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Shout Out For Mary Read!
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GypsyPirate
Sep 22, 2011 @ 3:34 pm | delete
- Ah you know I love me some pirates!!
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LadyJasmine
Jan 14, 2011 @ 11:08 am | delete
- This was fascinating! :-) Blessed.
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waaas
Oct 5, 2009 @ 11:43 am | delete
- mary read rocks but that was a lot of reading
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mary read
Mar 12, 2009 @ 5:23 pm | delete
- shut up i am the best pirate ever!!!!!!!
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Boghead
Dec 13, 2008 @ 12:08 am | delete
- Aargh, she was a right saucy wench so she was. I knew her well.
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aly
Nov 26, 2008 @ 1:55 pm | delete
- it was ok
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kiara
May 6, 2008 @ 10:47 pm | delete
- ok im at school doing a assingnment and we are trying to figure out whos mary read and stuff like that i think that she is very smart and very brave i wouldnt disgise me self as a boy so yeah i tink that she is very smart
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homey
Apr 6, 2011 @ 6:16 pm | delete
- I didnt read dis yet dis iz my hw i need 2 find where she steel nicknae n insteresting facts.
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