The 7 most terrifying pirates from history

[Sharks Prize]

Read about some seriously scary pirates, courtesy of Cracked Magazine's website.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19353_the-7-most-terrifying-pirates-from-history.html

Three of these guys are in SMP!, which kinda makes that game slightly creepier.

 

[modernknight1]

Thanks for the story SP.

I REALLY disagree with their picks though.

Dampier was known as an enlightened gentlemen pirate well known to do chavalrous acts and an copious writer that made tremendous impacts still known today- a genius really. Hardly most terrifying.

Decatur would be sorely insulted to be called a pirate. He's rolling over in his grave in fact as I write this.

Barborossa gets a lot more credit than he deserves. They were really a dynasty. The real blood thirsty pirate and leader to be recognized here is Dragut. His name was feared for centuries. He was known to crucify Christian prisoners in front of towns he wanted to scare into surrender. This had a bad effect at Malta where the Master of St. Johns ordered all the Muslim prisoners to be butchered, cut up into large pieces, rammed into the large bombard cannons and blown out onto the attackers that were crucifying the Chistians. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turgut_Reis Wikipedia doesn't do his blood thirstiness justice, but it's the only reference I can site at the moment (on a plane).

I can't believe Roc Brasiliano isn't on that list: "Drunken and debauched, Braziliano would threaten to shoot anyone who did not drink with him. He roasted alive two Spanish farmers on wooden spits after they refused to hand over their pigs. He treated his Spanish prisoners barbarously, typically cutting off their limbs or roasting them alive over a fire" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_Braziliano

I also cannot believe that Morgan and Avery aren't on there.

Read about some of these guys: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categoryutch_pirates

Those Dutchman were some bloodthirsty mean SOBs.

MK

 

[morgan terror]

i think they forgot the point of the article after the first pick they made. they also neglected to mention that black bart seized 300 ships in a single year, which is much more impressive than some of the other numbers they mentioned. unless it was two years, but still. i'm taking it from memory here.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I quite liked having an article on pirates randomly appear on there. Funnier still that I learned about the first one listed from Bartolomeu o Portugues' storyline.

 

[Thagarr]

From what I gathered reading this article, the writer was more interested in working in "clever" ways to use expletives than the actual history of pirates.Lafitte a terror? Perhaps if you happened to be a Spaniard. By many accounts he was a charming gentleman and shrewed business man, his business just happened to be as a pirate! Though he actually despised that term and preferred the term privateer, and fought more than a few duels over the linguistics of the matter to emphasis his point. Though I will agree with one point the author makes, he was indeed a pirate king! Had he not been stabbed in the back by the governor and country he had helped to save, he could very well have ended up as governor himself.

Although Hornigold's career as a pirate lasted a lot longer, Blackbeard's short career was far more brutal, and he also mastered the art of intimidation. I wholeheartedly agree with MK, Decatur was no pirate and should be nowhere near this list. Roc Brasiliano should be at #1, he was quite simply insane, and was one of the most brutal bastards ever to walk the earth. It's always good to find stuff like this posted though, thanks for the link mate!