It frightens the seas of the West Indies and the entire east coast of the Americas. He is an ally of the governor of North Carolina, which I forgive him some of his criminal acts in exchange for receiving part of the booty that is obtained.
His demonic appearance and gaze made Blackbeard the terror of the seas. In each approach he lit cannon wicks that adorned his beard.
Due to the number of his robberies, estimated at at least four hundred, he has been considered one of the most successful in history.
After working as a sailor from a very young age, at the age of thirty-seven he decided to be part of Howell Davis's crew, starting his adventures in piracy. He managed to assemble a squadron of sufficient proportion to destabilize the British fleet.
During the voyage, the ship in which Mary was traveling was attacked and captured by the pirate Jack Rackham, and his sentimental companion and forays, the pirate woman Anne Bonny. Still dressed as a man.
Mary was recruited by the pirates. Soon after, Anne Bonny discovered her female identity. The two women became friends and tried to keep it a secret but Rackham grew suspicious of Bonny's close relationship with the new sailor and demanded an explanation.
After his recent appointment as captain because of the mutiny, he abandoned Vane and his loyalists in a longboat and began raiding small boats in the geographical areas of the West Indies, Jamaica, the Windward Passage, the Windward Islands, and Cuba.
In Jamaica he captured a brig named Kingston which was full of riches. Unfortunately, the capture reached the ears of the merchants of Port Royal and they decided to send bounty hunters in search of him.
By December 1695, the new governor of New York, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire asked Kidd to attack various pirates while fighting French ships. Kidd accepted the commission, knowing that refusing could be seen as disloyalty to the crown and would carry great social stigma.
Kidd was given a letter of marque by King William III of England. His new ship was the Adventure Galley. Among Kidd's crew was Hendrick Van der Haul, considered second-in-command within Kidd's ship.
In collusion with the Jamaican governors, under British authority, and in the midst of various political tensions with the powers of the time, he undertook several war campaigns against the Spanish possessions in the Caribbean Sea area.
He carried out his first large-scale operation in 1668 by sacking the city of Port-au-Prince (present-day Camagüey) in Cuba, culminating in the daring attack on Panama City in 1670.
