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| Calico Jack Rackham is mainly remembered for his association with two women pirates, Ann Bonny and Mary Reed, who both disguised themselves as men. On August 20, 1720 Rackham and eleven others stole the anchored sloop William in Nassau harbor during the night. Captain Jonathan Barret was sent to find Rackham. When Barret's crew boarded William, only Anne Bonny and Mary Reed defended the attackers while the rest of the pirates, including Rackham, simply surrendered without a fight. Rackam was sentenced to death. Able to see his lover Anne Bonny once before his execution, she stated to him "that she was sorry to see him there, but if he had fought like a man, he need not have been hanged like a dog." Rackham and his crewmen were hanged and their bodies were hung at various locations on the islands as a deterrent to fellow pirates. |
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