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Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1552-1618 CE) was an English courtier, soldier, mariner, explorer, and historian. A one-time favourite of his queen, Elizabeth I of England (r. 1558-1603 CE), Raleigh organised three expeditions to form a colony on...

Captain Benjamin Hornigold was a British pirate active in the Caribbean and North Atlantic from 1716 to 1717. Hornigold’s greatest claim to fame (or infamy) is that he taught the pirating ropes to Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard (d. 1718). Giving...

A portrait by Nicholas Hilliard of Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1552-1618 CE), the English courtier, soldier, mariner, explorer and historian. (National Portrait Gallery, London)

The Duchy of Athens was a Latin or Frankish state in Greece that existed from 1205 to 1458 CE. It was created in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade (1202-1204 CE) and would be ruled for the majority of its history by the Burgundian de la...

Oil on slate painting by Benjamin West, c.1816. From the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

An illustration by Walter Paget of Robinson Crusoe which appeared in an 1895-6 edition of Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe, first published in 1719. The character was inspired by Alexander Selkirk, marooned on the Juan Fernández Islands...

A 1598 CE painting by William Segar of the Elizabethan adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1552-1618 CE). (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin)

Patrick Lyster as the English pirate Captain Benjamin Hornigold (d. 1719) in the TV series Black Sails. © 2014 Starz

Portrait of Benjamin Lincoln, a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (no relation to Abraham Lincoln, 16th US president). Portrait by Charles Willson Peale, October 1784. Independence National Historical...

"Colonel Benjamin Church" by an unknown artist, c. 1675 CE. Collection of the New York Public Library.