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Episode 256: Henry Every, Pirate King

Half-Arsed History

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The Captain of the Charles II

The Charles II was captured without conflict or bloodshed as this mutinous band of sailors took control of the ship, essentially un-resisted. With only mutineers remaining in the surgeon, a proper vote was held to choose who would be the captain and everyone voted for Evry. And he proposed that the crew take to a life of piracy. The crew agreed they renamed the ship Fancy, rather than Charles II, and they began their voyage south. On the way to the Cape of Good Hope, every in the crew of the Fancy stopped here and there along the way, robbing ships and settlement,. bringing on new crew who agreed to join and unfortunately, taking less willing people on as slaves

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