Henry Avery was born in 1653 in Plymouth, England. Avery had already spent almost 36 years at sea before he became a pirate. Avery enlisted into the Royal Navy, serving as a junior officer. The higher officers gave Henry and his other sailors beatings. In 1693 Henry went to be a part of a ship leaving England to attack French ships. At first he received great profit, but he was later sold into slavery with many others. He wanted to re-gain his freedom. When they were on the ship called the Charles Avery and twenty four other men came onto deck and took control of the entire ship. Henry then went below deck to speak to the sick captain. He told the captain that he could still be captain if he joined their crew, but he declined the offer. So Avery let him go to shore on one of the boats with anyone else who wanted to leave.
Henry Avery
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Starting off the Pirate Career

Monday, December 5, 2011
Avery's Pirate Career
All throughout his first month of being a captain they sailed down the Atlantic Ocean stopping at many different islands. They found three English ships that automatically surrendered without fighting. Although they surrendered, Avery forced 9 members to join his crew because they had “special skills”. A couple months after he raided English ships he decided that he would never steal from his own country again. Later on when Henry was on the coast of Western Africa he led many tribesmen onto his ship telling them that he wanted to trade with them. He didn’t keep his promise; he stole put them into shackles, stole their gold, and sold seven of them into slavery. They burned the town of Mayd because the members wouldn’t trade with them. By 1965 Avery captured nine ships and sailed from Maio to India. From there the Fancy got into many different battles with many different ships. They won all of the countless battles and received even more loot.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
The End of Avery's Pirate Career

Saturday, December 3, 2011
What Happened to Henry Avery?

Friday, December 2, 2011
Book Report: The Republic of Pirates

The Republic of Pirates is about the “Golden Age of Pirates”. The book starts off with “The Pirates Tale” of Henry Avery and how he started piracy. It mainly tells it through the lives of three pirates in the “Flying Gang” by the names of Samuel Bellamy (Black Sam), Edward Thatch (Blackbeard), and Charles Vane. Bellamy and Thatch were friends who together attacked nearly 300 ships. They met many years before they were captains because they had the same mentor, Benjamin Hornigold, who founded The Pirate Republic. Blackbeard was one of the most dangerous pirates in the Caribbean. The two of them were also good acquaintances with Vane. Woodes Rogers also had a big role in the book. Rogers was interested in making piracy coming to an end. Rogers had many encounters with pirates who had ran away and started making strategies on how to defeat them. King George wanted to support Rogers so he sent navy ships to go with him on his conquests. Many other pirates decided to help him including Hornigold. Rogers’ quest was successful; he ended the Pirate Republic and got rid of all the pirate crews all around the world. Although he ended piracy he ended up in prison for not paying all the loans that he made to get rid of pirates. Right before the Republic of Pirates came to an end Vane’s ship was caught in a hurricane and was destroyed. Vane was caught and sent to prison when he washed up to shore, a year later he was hung. Blackbeard lived a normal life for awhile after The Republic of Pirates came to an end, but Lt. Robert Maynard found him and got into a huge fight and in the end Blackbeard was killed. Bellamy died three years before piracy came to an end. He was caught in a terrible storm that only seven men survived from who a couple days later ended up being executed. For the most part all of those who were involved in piracy did not get a very happy ending.
I chose to read about pirates because I have been intrigued by pirates for awhile now. Nobody knows for sure everything that happened in the age of piracy, which makes it so interesting. We only know bits and pieces of what actually happened and what type of events took place. Pirates affected a lot of things back then. They affected the economy hugely with all of the goods that they stole. They destroyed towns and put together countries like Belize. They would put many merchants out of work and put many people in general in distress.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Works Cited
Henry Avery. Fortune City. Web. 9 Dec. 2011. http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/lennon/897/avery.html.
"Henry Avery." Henry Avery. St. Croix, 2006. Web. 10 Dec. 2011. http://www.stcroix-beaches.com/Henry-Avery.html.
"Henry Avery. Pirates, Buccaneers, Privateers & Swashbucklers." V'lé's Pirate Cove, 70 of the Most Famous Pirates, Buccaneers, Swashbucklers & Privateers. Castlebound Enterprises. Vleonica. Web. 11 Dec. 2011. http://www.vleonica.com/avery.htm.
"Henry Every - Famous Pirate - The Way Of The Pirates." Famous Pirates at The Way Of The Pirates. The Way of the Pirates, 2009. Web. 8 Dec. 2011. http://www.thewayofthepirates.com/famous-pirates/henry-every.php.
Klein, Shelley. The Most Evil Pirates in History. London: Michael O'Mara, 2006. Print.
Woodard, Colin. The Republic of Pirates Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down. Orlando: Harvest, 2007. Print.
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