Captain Benjamin Hornigold was a pirate for a short time, between 1716 and 1717. His ship was the starting point for several better known pirates. A pirate digging…perhaps to bury treasure, perhaps a grave. ... // Events August 5 - In the Battle of Peterwardein 40. ... // Events January 4 — The Netherlands, Britain & France sign Triple Alliance February 26-March 6 What is now the northeastern United States was paralyzed by a series of blizzards that buried the region. ...

Captain Hornigold left New Providence Island in the Bahamas with Edward Teach (later known as Blackbeard) among his crew. He captured a sloop, which he placed under Teach's command. They plundered six ships in 1717 off the American coast and raided in the Caribbean. By the year's end they had seized a French ship laden with gold, jewels, and other booty, after which they parted company. (This article is about the island in the Bahamas. ... Blackbeards flag, showing a horned skeleton holding an hourglass and threatening a bleeding heart with a spear. ... A sloop-rigged J-24 sailboat In sailing, a sloop is a vessel with a single mast on which is hoisted a fore-and-aft rigged mainsail and a single jib, plus extras such as a spinnaker. ... ... Booty is something both valuable and acquired by force or daring. ...

Captain Hornigold was known for being rather less vicious than other pirates. One of his victims recounts how his vessel was pursued by Hornigold's. Eventually the victim struck her colours and the pirates boarded. Hornigold then, somewhat apologetically, asked the captured crewmen for their hats. This was because the pirates had got drunk the night before and thrown their own hats overboard. Having taken the hats, Hornigold left the vessel in peace.

Teach went to America and Captain Hornigold to New Providence. When Woodes Rogers was appointed governor of the Bahamas, Captain Hornigold asked for and received a pardon. Rogers thought highly of Hornigold and commissioned him to hunt pirates. Hornigold pursued John Auger, among others. Circa 1719, Hornigold was sent to Mexico on a trading voyage. Captain Hornigold's ship struck a reef far from land, and the entire crew was lost. (This article is about the island in the Bahamas. ... Woodes Rogers, (b. ... A pardon is the forgiveness of a crime and the penalty associated with it. ... // Events January 23 - The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire April 25 - Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe June 10 - Battle of Glen Shiel Prussia conducts Europes first systematic census Miners in Falun, Sweden find an apparently petrified body of Fet-Mats Israelsson in an unused... A reef surrounding an islet. ...