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John Ward was outlandish and fearless, terrorising the Mediterranean with a complete absence of morals – little wonder the English pirate was an inspiration for Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean films. Giles Milton tells the story of perhaps the most familiar blackguard that you’ve never heard of.
John Ward (loyalist) (1753–1846), businessman and politician in New Brunswick. John Ward (Minnesota politician) (born 1950), retired educator and member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. John Ward (South Carolina politician) (1767–1816), intendent (mayor) of Charleston, South Carolina, 1801–1802.
John Thomas Ward is a former priest from Palmyra, New York and the main protagonist of the FAITH series. On a journey to complete a botched exorcism, John relives traumatic memories and traverses through dangerous situations to defeat the unspeakable evil that plagues him. This page is complete, but it's missing citations and requires grammatical checking. Give it a month or so until ...
By 1612, Ward had retired from a life of piracy and lived in luxury with his family in Tunisia. There were no records of children born to either of his wives. He died in 1622 at the age of 70. The Legacy of the Pirate John Ward. Ward was condemned in England, especially since he turned to Islam and became a Barbary pirate.
Wealth. £500,000 - £2,000,000. John Ward ( c. 1553 [1] – 1622), also known as Birdy or later as Yusuf Reis, was an English pirate who later became a Corsair for the Ottoman Empire operating out of Tunis during the early 17th century. According to writer Giles Milton, Jack Ward was an inspiration for Jack Sparrow of the Pirates of the ...
Jun 20, 2021 · John Ward, often known as Jack, was nicknamed Sparrow, and his eccentric ways and winding history often parallel his fictional counterpart. John Ward began his career in the 16th century as a privateer, a pirate sanctioned by a government to attack enemy ships, but when a new king took the English throne, privateering was outlawed.
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No pirate enjoyed greater notoriety in his own day than Captain John Ward. The early seventeenth-century hero - or anti-hero - of three ballads, two black letter chapbooks and a play, is seldom heard of today, but his career may be pieced together from the numerous complaints made about him in the Venetian State Papers and the citations in the records of the High Court of Admiralty.
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