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Jacques Jean David Nau

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jacques Jean David Nau , c.1630-1671, French pirate in the West Indies. He is also called François L'Olonnois. He went to the West Indies in 1650. Expelled in 1653 from the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo for buccaneering activities, he found refuge on Tortuga, fitted out a vessel, and began plundering Spanish possessions. His cruelty toward prisoners was bestial, and he was feared over the Spanish Main. In a fight with the Spanish in Campeche all his men were killed, but Nau, disguising himself, watched the celebration of his death and then escaped in a canoe with a few French fugitive... Read more
François L'Olonnois
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piracy
...the Cuban coast, and in 1824 the United States sent David Porter to complete the task. The power of the pirates...Elizabethan buccaneers, Edward Mansfield , Henry Morgan , Jacques Nau , Jean Laffite , and Edward Teach ( Blackbeard ). There is... Read more

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