Conquest! Abbiamofinalmenteconquistatoqui! We've finally conquered here! ）

- Plautus (Roman comedy writer)

In sixth place is Basalomew Roberts; Roberts, born in Lower Sicilya, spent his early years serving on armed civilian carriers. Roberts is said to be handsome and fond of wearing fancy clothes. Unlike most pirates, he is one of the few prohibitions, but has a penchant for tea. Forbidding the crew to gamble, he encouraged them to pray to God, and he himself was one of the few devout worshippers among the pirates. And they think and behave very differently. It is also known as the "black baron".

Basalomew Roberts was one of the most successful Sicilian pirates, controlling a wide range of seas from Africa to Europe. In just four years, his pirate fleet had a total of 400 pirate ships at its peak. Roberts was known for being cold-blooded, and never left a living after a hijacking. Robert didn't start piking until he was 37 years old, and he began to participate in slave caravans during the Second Punic War.

Roberts later joined Davis's pirate ship, and a few weeks later Davis was killed and he took over as captain. He was brilliant and brave in battle, and always took the lead in boarding enemy ships. He perfected Henry Morgan's Code of Pirates (the Code of Pirates was written for Basalo, Muel, Bordeaux, and Gais, not this person), and strictly followed it in his own ranks.

Roberts was known for his frenzied plundering, plundering not only merchant ships, but also the navy, and his flagship, the Royal Fortune, was the carthaginian trirem. Roberts now has four double-lined battleships and two three-column battleships; The ship is the triremit "Royal Happiness".

In seventh place was Calico Jack, "Calico Jack", whose original name was John Lakeham, who got the nickname because he always wore striped trousers and a coat. He became famous due to the fact that his accomplices were two female pirates, Anne Bonney and Mary Reid. "Calico Jack" began his career as a pirate with his control of Charles Wayne's ships.

Wayne was the captain of a pirate treasure ship and was thwarted in a fight with a Carthaginian soldier. Enraged by Wayne's cowardice, "Calico Jack" led his men in a mutiny, driving Wayne and his supporters into a small sailing ship and banishing them. "Calico Jack" was then transformed from a quartermaster into a new captain. Later, "Calico Jack" met Anne Bonnie on New Providence. He convinces her to join his pirate ship.

As an advocate of the pirate flag, the pirate leader "Cotton Jack" didn't actually have many commendable pirate deeds. He is best known for his alliance with Anne Bowney and his solo betrayal. When the pirate search party of Hanno, the governor of Carthage, attacked the ship of Cottonjack, Anne and Mary were on board at the time. During the battle, "Cotton Jack" escaped and hid in the hold with his accomplices, leaving Anne and Mary on deck to fight Carthage.

After this battle, Anne and Mary broke away from Calico Jack's pirate fleet and created a pirate group that was even more powerful than Calico Jack's pirate regiment. Calico Jack's pirate regiment has since suffered a great loss of power, leaving only four twin warships, the three-liner "Calico".

In eighth place are the Redbeard brothers, also known as "Red Devil Eric" or "Red-Haired Eric" and "Red Coat". "Redbeard" was a nickname given by the Carthaginians to the most famous pirate captain brother in Great Sicily. Aruj al-Din was not only a famous pirate, but also an archon of the city-state of Messina for a time. Because of his red beard, he and his younger brother Haile al-Din were known as the Barbarossa brothers, or the Redbeard brothers.

During the Second Punic War, the Redbeard brothers used Sicily as a base and led their pirate fleet to raid many towns along the Mediterranean coast, creating a whirlwind of "Redbeard". The Arugi brothers came from a peculiar background, having been born in Greece and later joined the Greek army. Both brothers started out as ordinary sailors, and when they saw that there was nothing to show their strength, they secretly had something to do with pirates, and later turned to pirates and engaged in privateering activities. They were successively appreciated by the princes and consuls of the city-states of Messina, and were supported by ships.

They also received permission from the city-state of Lillian to use the port of Greater Sicily as a base for piracy, and a third of the proceeds went to Lillibi. As a result, many ships from Carthage were killed, and among them attacked the ships of the families of the Carthaginian consuls, obtained a large amount of goods, and rapidly expanded their power. They even had the audacity to capture a Carthaginian warship loaded with 380 Spanish soldiers and 60 knights from New Carthage.

During the Cannaic War, they attacked the Lower Sicilian coast of Carthage. These achievements made them famous. Later, they raided the coast of Oscar in Spain to rival the Carthaginian garrison in Sardinia. During this time, Arugi was protected by the Julius family, who ceded an offshore island to Arrugi as a base. After the war, the two families turned against each other because of the issue of interests; As a result, Redbeard became a wandering pirate again, and now has three triremes, two of which are the "Arugi" and "Haier".

In ninth place is Francis Drake, who is also a controversial figure. In the eyes of some, he is a nobleman; To others, he was a pirate. Born into a poor peasant family in Oscar City, Drake worked his way up from apprentice to sailor and eventually as a merchant captain, and his status and experience were the most peculiar among the Sicilian pirates.

After the First Punic War, Drake and his cousin John Hawkins led five slave ships to Carthage, where they were hit by a storm and asked for aid from the Sardinian ports. At first, the governor of Sardinia allowed them to enter the harbor for repairs, but a few days later he suddenly ordered an attack and put all the Spanish crew to death, except for Drake and Hawkins, who escaped and saved their lives. From then on, he had a heart of hatred for Carthage, and he vowed to take revenge on Carthage during his lifetime, thus determining the trajectory of his life.

During the Second Punic War, the king of Spain executed his pro-Carthaginian wife, Mary, and Spain declared war on Carthage. But at that time, the Spanish navy was still very weak, with only thirty-four warships, and it was simply not able to fight Carthage; In times of crisis, Drake arrives with 25 pirate ships. Along the Carthaginian coast, Drake began a "surgical purge", and outside the port of Sardinia, he sank 36 Carthaginian supply ships, and then stormed the port of Sardinia, sinking 33 Carthaginian ships.

A month later, Drake's fleet raided an anchorage near Lower Sicily, and in the chaos hundreds of ships collided and sank, causing incalculable damage. But the Drake fleet also paid a heavy price for this, and could not afford to return to Spain; It was only in Sicily that the Sicilian pirates were joined. And with the only three remaining double battleships and its seat ship, the triremit "Redek", he became one of the top ten pirates in Sicily.

Ranked tenth is the Oriental female pirate Zheng Shi, Zheng Shi, formerly known as Shi Xiugu, was originally a famous prostitute in Alexandria. Since the Second Punic War, there have been six bands of pirates along the mouth of the Nile for a long time, and they have established alliances with each other, and the union has made them quite powerful; Even the ships of the Kingdom of Egypt, which were transporting salt, paid them protection money.

The most famous of these six pirates is the "Red Flag Gang" co-led by Zheng Shi and Ni Robben - they have 60 to 100 pirate ships, and the number is about 2 to 40,000. The governor of Alexandria at that time resigned because of his ineffective suppression of bandits; From the Second Punic War to the Connai War, Alexander's position as governor changed hands three times, all due to ineffective suppression of bandits.

Zheng Shi and Ni Luo attacked large and small merchant and fishing vessels by unscrupulous means, hijacked ships and seized goods, kidnapped tickets for ransom, and seriously damaged the production and life of the coastal residents of the Kingdom of Egypt and the exchanges between China and foreign countries. In order to completely solve this pirate threat, the Kingdom of Egypt secretly built and assembled more than 150 double warships and 30 triremites, and launched a surprise decisive battle against the lax "Red Flag Gang" in the early morning fog.

After a whole day of decisive battle, the Kingdom of Egypt was victorious; Of the vast "Red Flag Gang", only 3 triremes escaped with Zheng Shi's clan out of nearly 100 warships, and all the rest of the pirate members and their ships were either destroyed or captured. Even the captured pirate members were eventually hanged by the Egyptian crown; The escaped Zheng Shi fleet became part of the Sicilian pirates.

Today, the ten pirates gathered in this area to discuss the way out; In fact, except for the pirate leader, most of the pirate members are forced to become pirates. The emergence of piracy and piracy is closely related to foreign colonization; At this time, because the productive forces are not developed enough, citizenship is determined by a certain number of contrasts that cannot be violated. Therefore, the only way out is forced migration.

At this time, it was mainly the members of the Commune and those who did not have citizenship rights and were forced to move in order to earn a living; In this way, a group of people will be forced to go to sea and become pirates. In modern times, with the development of slavery and the formation of large land ownership, a large number of bankrupt small farmers, hooligans and proletarians appeared, and a large number of slaves joined the ranks of pirates, and piracy swept the Mediterranean.

So, now even pirates can't survive as a way of survival; All pirates inevitably begin to look for a new way to survive. The spread of this sentiment forced the pirate leaders to sit together and discuss the issue; After all, without the support of the pirates below, they would not be able to cross the Mediterranean.