The Pirate Life of Henry Every

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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There is no shortage of famous names associated with the Golden Age of Piracy. Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, Henry Morgan or Jack Rackham hold such levels of fame, they have become household names, legends with largely fictional tales still told of their lives at sea. There is, however, one man who managed to outdo them all. His largest, most audacious crime is one of the most successful pirate raids in history and one that nearly brought down one of the richest, most powerful empires the world has ever known. Captain Henry Every, the pirate that shook the colonies from the Red Sea to the Caribbean and then disappeared without a trace. SOURCES Farooqi, Naim R. (1988) Moguls, Ottomans, and Pilgrims: Protecting the Routes to Mecca in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. The International history Review, Vol. 10, No. 2 (May 1988), pp 198-220. Taylor & Francis Ltd. Oxfordshire, UK. Johnson, Captain Charles (1724) A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates. UK Johnson, Captain Charles (1732) History and Lives of the Most Notorious Pirates and their Crews. UK Fox, E.T. (2008) King of the Pirates: The Swashbuckling Life of Henry Every. The History Press, UK. ------ For extended show notes, including maps, links and scripts, head over to darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or via voicemail on: (415) 286-5072 or join our Discord community: http://www.darkhistories.com/community/https://discord.gg/6f7e2pt Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:39.8	When it comes to piracy, there's no shortage of famous names when it comes to the so-called
0:48.6	Golden Age, Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, Henry Morgan or Drackham, all holds such levels of fame that we've all grown up with.
0:58.0	They've all become household names to a certain degree, legends with largely fictional tales still told of their lives at sea.
1:06.8	There is however one man who managed to outdo even the greatest of these pirates, His largest, most audacious crime is one of the most successful
1:16.4	pirate raids in history and one that nearly brought down one of the richest, most powerful
1:21.0	empires the world's ever known.
1:23.7	Captain Henry Everett, the pirate that shook the colonies from the Red Sea to the Caribbean
1:29.4	and then disappeared without a trace. This is Dark Histories where the facts are worse than fiction.
1:37.0	Hello and welcome to Dark History season 4 episode 17. I hope this episode finds you very well.
1:47.0	Today's episode is actually a bit of a product of the episode that I did recently on The Pirate King of New York.
1:54.0	And it got me thinking like whilst I was doing that episode was,
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