That One Pirate That Tricked All Of Them...

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I always liked the pirates that were able to use trickery to become rich. Howell Davis was an intelligent Captain known for his use of deception. Whilst he was surrounded by violent brutes, he himself was kind-hearted, and even made friends amongst his enemy. His life is full of adventures and battles, and his untimely death would have powerful consequences on the entire Golden Age.
Sources:
Black Bart Roberts - Terry Breverton
Dictionary of Pirates Biography - Baylus Brooks
Pirates in their Own Words - E.T Fox
A New Account of Some Parts of Guinea - William Snelgrave
Black Flag of the North - Victor Suthren
A General History of the Pyrates - Captain Charles Johnson
Yes, I know AGH isn't reliable. I use it as a substitute when no other sources are available in order to form a more cohesive narrative, since KZread videos are primarily for entertainment and easily-consumed history. As you'll notice in the video, I counter some statements from AGH whenever contrary accounts are available.
0:00 Introduction
0:21 Setting Sail
4:28 To Africa!
6:26 A Pirate Alliance
9:35 William Snelgrave
11:34 Breaking Up
13:09 A Man Named John
14:39 Death of a Captain
17:56 Outro
#pirates #biographies #history

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  • @spirospagiatis4731
    @spirospagiatis47312 жыл бұрын

    Heres my pirate meme : Edward Low : My crew is like a fine rum😇.........LOCKED UP IN A BARREL IN THE HOLD!!!!!!😈😈😈

  • @Vicus_of_Utrecht

    @Vicus_of_Utrecht

    3 ай бұрын

    That would suck. It's like that early 90s episode of Batman/Bruce being trapped in a prison box.

  • @Newjerseyblows

    @Newjerseyblows

    2 күн бұрын

    Arrrrrrrhg

  • @_p3t3r_34
    @_p3t3r_342 жыл бұрын

    Monkey Island music makes the whole story even sillier (despite the horrific shit that happened). By the end I imagined the whole gang of Davis, La Buse and Cocklyn as some kind of cartoon characters lol

  • @GoldandGunpowder

    @GoldandGunpowder

    2 жыл бұрын

    they basically are. it only got worse when la buse and richard taylor teamed up

  • @Imdangriffiths
    @Imdangriffiths Жыл бұрын

    I’m from Milford in Pembrokeshire.. it’s a pirate smuggler paradise.. islands everywhere. Great story .

  • @GoldandGunpowder

    @GoldandGunpowder

    Жыл бұрын

    Cheers Daniel

  • @petejames4222

    @petejames4222

    3 ай бұрын

    You mean "inlets", not islands

  • @Imdangriffiths

    @Imdangriffiths

    3 ай бұрын

    @@petejames4222 no I meant islands so that’s what I wrote . Caldey, skomer skokholm. All islands .

  • @burntx7
    @burntx72 жыл бұрын

    Commenting here for the first time to help the algorithm, but I also want to say I love your videos! Educational and complete, you don't gloss over important details. It's also nice that you provide actual sources for us to read (I'm quite a bookworm myself). Been a fan since your video about pirate food, too!

  • @GoldandGunpowder

    @GoldandGunpowder

    2 жыл бұрын

    thanks raymond

  • @robertdavis1255
    @robertdavis1255 Жыл бұрын

    Interesting story about my ancestor although I have heard other stories about his life as a pirate....may he RIP... thanks for sharing...

  • @brendanturner2362
    @brendanturner23626 ай бұрын

    I think this is the first time i remember hearing an actual amount of gunpowder on a pirate ship. 18 tons!? Way more than I expected, there must be several accounts of disasters and other calamities related to gunpowder on ships.

  • @AudieHolland

    @AudieHolland

    3 ай бұрын

    People weren't stupid in those times. In Spanish, the power room was called 'Santa Barbara' and probably treated as such. Remember that Bartholomew Roberts enforced very strict rules aboard his ship. No drinking, no gambling, no fighting and lights out at eight.

  • @mageillus
    @mageillus2 жыл бұрын

    Damn, Davis is severely underrated!

  • @cfox7811
    @cfox7811 Жыл бұрын

    great narration.

  • @unknowntrooper_2791
    @unknowntrooper_2791 Жыл бұрын

    This was a great look at Davis with interesting info. Btw "Sailing East: West-Indian Pirates in Madagascar" by Baylus C. Brooks has some additional details of Davis and other pirates who operated in the African coast including another pirate flag description for Davis to add to these. Can recommend. Cheers!🏴‍☠️

  • @hermitgisvids
    @hermitgisvids2 жыл бұрын

    Dude I love your content so much, watch all of your videos as soon as they come out. Please keep making such awesome videos!!

  • @midasreal
    @midasreal2 жыл бұрын

    great work again! keep up the interesting and educational content!

  • @unknowntrooper_2791
    @unknowntrooper_27912 жыл бұрын

    Good video. General history of pirates is indeed good source in those cases when nothing better is available. Nath. Mist, who was the most likely writer (see Bialuschewski' and Woodard for example), was well informed overall as a newspaperman. However he had his considerable licence with facts in the book. His accounts of Blackbeard and the women pirates may be the most inaccurate parts of his work, he wanted it to sell well so he did this by adding clear elements of fiction. Some of his accounts should be, or at least may be, much more reliable, possibly, for example, his account on Roberts and Davis. There are things in his work that prove his diligent research into the topic when comparing to period documents. However, Mist was a committed Jacobite and as such his works can even include political messages to distorts facts between the lines. And often General history's stories are just copied as "pirate facts" on popular works, which is wrong: one should also see proper primary sources first before trusting GHOP and also always acknowledge that the possible "fact" is from Charles Johnson (Mist)

  • @GoldandGunpowder

    @GoldandGunpowder

    2 жыл бұрын

    i subscribe to the theory that AGH was collectively written by a number of writers, including mist who probably published it

  • @beanlord4347
    @beanlord4347 Жыл бұрын

    Love this channel. My go to place for pirate info and memes!

  • @wipingmyasswithsticks
    @wipingmyasswithsticks10 ай бұрын

    I loved pirates ever since i was a child, and your videos are very helpful and interesting

  • @silvertortoise3776
    @silvertortoise37766 ай бұрын

    I love the more obscure names videos so much. Thanks for the education

  • @johnalexander178
    @johnalexander178 Жыл бұрын

    Great job

  • @nikevisor54
    @nikevisor542 жыл бұрын

    Had to come back to this to enjoy it properly thanks to an unexpected phone call. Yet another fantastic piece. Really enjoy your work and looking forward to whatever and whenever you post next :)

  • @quistan2
    @quistan22 жыл бұрын

    I am reading William Dampiers, A New voyage Round the World. It is always staggering to listen to the lives of people like Davis. It gives cause for self reflection in asking ones self "what the hell have YOU done?" Which is why I hope to sail with the Pillager. Thanks for another well researched and presented video.

  • @GoldandGunpowder

    @GoldandGunpowder

    2 жыл бұрын

    dampiers books are very good, i'd recommend Two Voyages to Campechy

  • @quistan2

    @quistan2

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@GoldandGunpowder Thank you for the recommendation! I've been meaning to pick your brain about Dampier, but I don't want to distract you from making excellent content. Dampier writes like a true Chronicler, leaving all embellishments out, and writing things down as accurately as he could figure.

  • @scottmiller1297

    @scottmiller1297

    Жыл бұрын

    I found a 1912 copy of a cruising voyage around the world by woodes Rogers at a thrift store . Quite the unexpected treasure for $4 lol

  • @scottmiller1297
    @scottmiller1297 Жыл бұрын

    Great video.not a pirate I knew much about .thanks for the information.look forward to more videos.

  • @dano9411
    @dano94115 ай бұрын

    Beauty. Subbed.

  • @karmaticdeer3727
    @karmaticdeer37272 жыл бұрын

    My favorite channel rn fr- I've loved pirate stuff for a long time- Mary read in black flag was who made me realize I was a trans guy- and I still work on ships to this day lol

  • @sailingpillager4685
    @sailingpillager46852 жыл бұрын

    Loving the video's.

  • @Bulecast12
    @Bulecast122 жыл бұрын

    Ur S tier YT channel

  • @donluchitti
    @donluchitti11 ай бұрын

    Great great great productions

  • @BRAgamer
    @BRAgamer2 жыл бұрын

    How lucky I am that I found your channel! What a gem, someone who actually likes 17th century history instead of golden age f piracy myths. You should take a look at a PC game called Blood and Gold Caribbean, one of the best games set in the 17th century is actually about the caribbean and its pirates and colonies lol. Thanks for the channel and the video sir.

  • @lionofthemorning7997
    @lionofthemorning799711 ай бұрын

    Bellamy is still my favorite, but that’s probably because of his romantic connection to the Witch of Wellfleet. Didn’t know much about Howell. He was pretty cool too.

  • @hailmary2959
    @hailmary2959 Жыл бұрын

    I hate that most of the pirate history books I've read when was a kid summarized Davis's career into a single paragraph. The only time they mention him is when it's about the "great" pirate Roberts.

  • @charliebalch3023
    @charliebalch3023 Жыл бұрын

    Why are there so many pirates from Wales? It seems they outnumber many much bigger nations? That would be a good video!

  • @GoldandGunpowder

    @GoldandGunpowder

    Жыл бұрын

    most of south-western Great Britain was overrepresented in the maritime community(which is partly why the Cornish/West Country "arr" accent is so associated with pirates), maybe due to easy access to the Atlantic, and partially due to Bristol being Britain's second most important maritime hub in the period, cause and effect of the previous point. this might've been a reason

  • @internetkurator9256
    @internetkurator9256 Жыл бұрын

    I am vibing your Monkey Island background music

  • @piraticvs
    @piraticvs2 жыл бұрын

    3:17 BARS!

  • @rumpleforeskin5064
    @rumpleforeskin5064 Жыл бұрын

    No kidding, I never understood that image of the the head w the weird eye. I always thought it was some kind of dumb robot eye of some manemade fixture. Always confused by that, it's a bulged eye tho, thanks for putting that into context

  • @arimendelson8875
    @arimendelson887511 ай бұрын

    I have a special affection for Howell Davis because Howell is my middle name.

  • @allancypher633
    @allancypher633 Жыл бұрын

    good one! try 90's pc version of pirates by Sid

  • @allancypher633

    @allancypher633

    Жыл бұрын

    you can find the manual, pirate flags on line

  • @Paperbutton9
    @Paperbutton911 ай бұрын

    damn this a good video

  • @paulsteele8614
    @paulsteele8614 Жыл бұрын

    Just here to help the algorithm, enjoying the content my young sons are as well this topic is right up their ally

  • @MyRkAcc
    @MyRkAcc Жыл бұрын

    Felt bad to ruin the 420 likes but wanted to give my thumbs up too.

  • @TinyHistoryOfficial
    @TinyHistoryOfficial Жыл бұрын

    Hey I'm wondering where you found the source for this information? Thanks

  • @GoldandGunpowder

    @GoldandGunpowder

    Жыл бұрын

    see the video description

  • @LCCWPresents
    @LCCWPresents Жыл бұрын

    Is it just me or does this pirate look like Gillian from Gillian’s island.

  • @fourshore502
    @fourshore50211 ай бұрын

    the s in la buse is not silent! >:(

  • @fvuucst574g6
    @fvuucst574g62 жыл бұрын

    Hi, im not sure if the General History Of Pirates book is unreliable, because in a documentery I watched about pirates the historians and experts say that it is authentic and reliable, unless i misinterpreted it, although, granted it did come out in 2015, but im still not sure if your right on this one, also they say that the author is probabley Daniel Defoe. Ill see if i can find a link to the documentery on youtube and update the comment when I can. (Edit) I couldnt find the documentery unfortunatley, but it is called 'Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and Rogues' the specific episode is episode 2, can you clear this up fir me, also, great vid! I love your content.

  • @GoldandGunpowder

    @GoldandGunpowder

    2 жыл бұрын

    I gave a clear example in the beginning of this video on why AGH is unreliable and in almost every video I do I discuss why it is and give similar examples

  • @docapathy6706
    @docapathy67062 жыл бұрын

    Is there somewhere I can find more information on the house of lords as a group

  • @GoldandGunpowder

    @GoldandGunpowder

    2 жыл бұрын

    i have sources in my video description, check out Black Bart Roberts - Terry Breverton

  • @docapathy6706

    @docapathy6706

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@GoldandGunpowder thank you

  • @flacons2110
    @flacons2110 Жыл бұрын

    i have a question did forced crewmembers get an equal share to a volunteer?

  • @GoldandGunpowder

    @GoldandGunpowder

    Жыл бұрын

    most forced crewmen didn't get shares at all or refused shares, if they accepted a share they basically became inducted

  • @shithorse3781
    @shithorse378111 ай бұрын

    😊

  • @fraserleask5189
    @fraserleask5189 Жыл бұрын

    poor audio.

  • @Vicus_of_Utrecht
    @Vicus_of_Utrecht3 ай бұрын

    Al gore's rythym

  • @MugRoohBeerh5812
    @MugRoohBeerh58122 жыл бұрын

    First