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Benjamin Hornigold
Benjamin Hornigold was an English pirate based at Nassau in the Bahamas, one of the founders of the pirate community known as the Republic of Pirates. Edward Teach, later called Blackbeard, served under him. In 1718 he accepted a royal pardon from the new governor Woodes Rogers and turned pirate hunter. He died in a shipwreck in 1719.
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