QMR Anne Bonney Traditional Cache
La Lunatica: As the owner has not responded to my previous log requesting that they check this cache I am archiving it.
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Suzanne
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QMR - The Quest for Morgan's Rum
Some call her a feminist who chose piracy as way of rebelling against a male-dominated world; others portray her as a tomboy who never grew up. Whatever her motives, in deed and daring Anne Bonny, history's most infamous woman pirate, was a plunderer, cutthroat, sailor, ransomer, raider, and general menace to maritime commerce in the Caribbean. In short, most pirates probably would have considered her an asset to their trade.
n 1720, Jack Rackham's ship was captured by one of Bahamian Governor Woodes Rogers' pirate-hunters. During the fight, Rackham apparently cowered in the hold along with most of the crew, while Anne Bonny (and Mary Read) stayed on deck and attempted to fight off the attackers. After their capture, Rackham and the other men were hanged. Bonny and Read were both pregnant, and they escaped execution by "pleading their bellies." Read was sentenced to hang after giving birth, but before she could do so she died of a fever in jail. Somehow, Bonny was granted a reprieve, and what happened to her afterwards is entirely unknown. Some say she went back to her father or her husband, some say she resumed the pirate's life. Whatever she did, her most memorable words are those she said to Calico Jack on the eve of his execution: "I'm sorry to see you here, Jack, but if you'd have fought like a man you needn't hang like a dog."
Many thanks to Mandarin Lake for placing the original cache.
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