Calico Jack
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John Rackham (hanged 18 November 1720), perhaps known as Calico Jack, was an English pirate captain operating in the Bahamas and Jamaica during the early 18th century.
Rackham was active in 1720, towards the end of the "Golden Age of Piracy". He is most remembered for having two female crew members: Mary Read and his lover, Anne Bonny.
Rackham deposed Charles Vane from his position as captain of the sloop Ranger, then cruised the Leeward Islands, Jamaica Channel and Windward Passage. He accepted the King's Pardon in 1719 and moved to New Providence, where he met Anne Bonny. He returned to piracy in 1720 by stealing a British sloop and Anne joined him. Their new crew included another female pirate, Mary Read. After a short run, Rackham was captured by Jonathan Barnet, a former English privateer, in 1720. Rackham was put on trial by Sir Nicholas Lawes, Governor of Jamaica, and hanged in November of that year in Port Royal, Jamaica.
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