Lesser Known Pirates of the Caribbean

Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

I am sure that you have heard of the pirates Captain Kidd and Morgan, but there were many other notorious and blood thirsty pirates before and after the former who made a name for themselves.

Pirate	Nationality	Claim to Fame
Pierre Francois	French	With 26 men, attacked the vice admiral, a ship armed with 8 guns, off the coast of South America. Although the ship was manned with threescore men, Pierre Francois captured the ship and would have would gotten away if only their main-mast had not went by the board.
Bartholomew Portuguese	Portuguese	With a boat manned with thirty fellow adventures fell upon a Spanish ship off of Cape Corrientes which was manned with threescore and ten men (70) and took the ship only to lose it and recapture the same ship.
Roch Brazliano	Dutch	Upon his very first adventure Roch captured a Spanish ship of fabulous value.
Lewis Scott	English	With a large and powerful detachment of men sacked Campeche.
Mansvelt		Made a decent on Saint Catherine, sacked it and made it his base of operations. He made two unsuccessful attempts at attacking Granada and Cartagena.
John Davis	Jamaican	With four-score of men he swooped down on the city of Nicaragua in the darkness of night and pillaged churches and homes, “without and respect or veneration”. With only a handful of men they carried away money and jewels to the value of fifty thousand pieces of eight, besides the dozen or so notable citizens, whom they held for ransom.
Francois l’Olonoise	French	Sacked the city of Maracaibo and the town of Gibraltar.