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    Women Pirates: Scandalous Women, #3
    Women Pirates: Scandalous Women, #3
    Women Pirates: Scandalous Women, #3
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    Women Pirates: Scandalous Women, #3

    By Anna Myers

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    Women Pirates

        There is an old superstition among sailors that women at sea bring bad luck. Despite this, many women have proved their seafaring skills. When we think of Pirates we have a tendency to think of masculine men.
          But did you know that the most successful pirate of all time was a woman? Neither the Chinese, British or Portuguese navies could stop her.
           In this delighful short book author Anna Myers takes a look at the lives of eight wicked women pirates.
     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGoldmineguides.com
    Release dateMar 19, 2014
    ISBN9781497750159
    Women Pirates: Scandalous Women, #3
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    Anna Myers

    Anna Myers     Anna Myers studied history at Sussex University in the UK. She currently lives in London with her husband Patrick and their three children.  

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      Women Pirates - Anna Myers

      RACHEL WALL

      Rachel Wall was born in 1760 in Carlisle in the state of Pennsylvania, US. Her parents were devout Presbyterians. At the age of sixteen, she met a former privateer, George Wall, who had fought in the American Revolution. Against her parent’s wishes, Rachel married George, and they relocated to Boston. On arrival in Boston Rachel found work as a domestic servant in Beacon Hill and George became a fisherman. Soon after, they arrived in Boston, George Wall disappeared for several months. When he returned, he showed Rachel his plundered treasure and persuaded her to partner with him in a life of piracy. Rachel, once she had seen the treasures George had acquired needed little convincing. In the dead of night George and Rachel stole a sloop named the Essex , assembled a crew and began their life as pirates setting up base on the Isle of Shoals, just off the New Hampshire coast.

      Rachel and George's pirate strategy in luring prey was highly effective. They would anchor just off an island whenever there was a storm. At the end of the storm’s duration, they made their vessel appear as if she would founder. When they sighted a ship they would put out a distress signal and Rachel would scream for help. When the rescuers boarded the ship, the pirates killed them, stole any valuables and then sunk the rescuers ship.  Those ashore assumed the vandalized ship had sunk due to the storm. From 1781 to 1782 Rachel and George apprehended twelve boats, killed twenty-four sailors, and seized six thousand dollars worth of cash and goods.

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      Rachel Wall

      IN 1782, A STORM DID batter their ship and broke the mast. George and the other pirates perished, leaving only Rachel on board. This time her screams for help were genuine. Once rescued Rachel returned to live in Boston where she once again found employment as a domestic maid. When darkness fell she would slip surreptitiously aboard ships that had docked against the harbor walls, and break into locked cabins to steal all the valuables she could manage to carry.

      In 1789, she was accused of robbery. Rachel had stupidly and viciously attacked a young woman called Margaret Bender, who was wearing a hat which Rachel yearned for. Rachel attempted to steal the hat and to gorge out Margaret's tongue. The police caught and arrested her. At her trial for robbery on September 10th, 1789, she confessed to piracy, but denied that she had ever killed anyone.

      Rachel was found guilty of robbery, and the judge sentenced her to death by hanging on October 8th, 1789.  Her last reported words were

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