The Very Secret Diary of Circe

Pirates!

Anne Bonny fought in men's clothing, was an expert with pistol and cutlass and considered as dangerous as any male pirate.

This is about a female pirate in the 1690’s! (http://goodies.freeservers.com/femalepirates.html) *cheers* See, this is what happens when you tell me Pirates of the Carribean has a chick on board. The raving feminist in me goes searching for the real chicks of the high seas. And, whoa, I found a few. There weren’t as many women as there were men, but they were still there, kicking serious arse.

The Pirate Queens of History:

Queen Teuta – – 232 BC to 228 BC, Adriatic Sea.

Sela – – 420 AD

Wigbiorg – – around 704 AD, Nordic.

Hetha – – around 704 AD, Nordic.

Wisna – – around 704 AD, Nordic.

Alfhild (aka AElfhild, Alwilda, Alvilda) – – post-850 AD, Sweden.

Ladgerda – – c. 870 AD.

Æthelflaed, "Lady of the Mercias."

Grace O'Malley, a.k.a. Granuaile – –1500s, Atlantic, commanded three galleys and 200 men.

Mrs. Peter Lambert of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, – – late 1500s

Lady Killigrew – – 1530-1570, Atlantic.

Elizabetha Patrickson – – 1634.

Anne Bonny – – 1720, Caribbean.

Mary Read – – 1720, Caribbean. These are the two most famous female pirates.

Mary Harvey (or Harley) alias Mary Farlee – – 1726.

Mary Crickett (or Crichett) – – 1728

Rachel Wall – – 1780s, sailed from Massachusetts.

Anonymous female commander of French privateer LA BAUGOURT – – 1805.

Catherine Hagerty – –1806, Australia and New Zealand. Okay, this one I MUST find out more about! She’s from my country!!

Charlotte Badger

Margaret Jordan – – 1809, Canada.

Cheng I Sao (Ching Yih Saou) – – 1810s, South China Sea, commanded either 5 or 6 squadrons consisting of 800 large junks, about 1,000 smaller vessels, and between 70,000 and 80,000 men and women.

Ki Ming

T'ang Ch'en Ch'iao (nicknamed "Golden Grace")

Honcho Lo – – supporter of the Chinese revolution, took over command on husband's death in 1921

Wong – – who united her 50 ship fleet with Honcho Lo's 64 junks

Lai Sho Sz'en (Lai Choi San) – – 1922-1939, South China Sea, commanded 12 junks.

P'en Ch'ih Ch'iko – – commanded 100 pirates in 1936

Huang P'ei-mei – – leader of 50,000, pirate from 1937 on into the 1950's


All I can say is: WHOA! These girls ROCK!! When I see PotC tomorrow, Anamaria's gonna have a special place in my heart.

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And we come to end of days
In the dark I hear a call
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