2007年6月30日 星期六

Lesson One-Women Pirates

Summary

It states there were the hundreds of women pirates in our history which people often overlooked. It may be a myth that one of the earliest women pirates appeared. Alwilda was promised in marriage to Prince Alf. However, Alwilda was discouraged that she decided to get away. She was dressed in men's clothes and sailed to the Baltic Sea with her female friends. Alwilda became the new captain on the ship of which had lost their captain and they had a battle with Denmark. Finally, the pirates give up and she decide to marry the Prince of Denmark and
became the Queen of Denmark. Anne Bonny was born in a wealthy family; however, she eloped with one of the pirates, furthermore she had a fierce and violent temper. This paragraph is about that Bonny, as a female pirate, frightened the crew she was attacking with a stolen boat and covered herself and the boat with turtle blood. Because of her prowess, she attacked other pirates' notice and burned sown her father's plantation for disinheriting her. Bonny made friend with John Rackham whose nickname is Calico Jack. He was a pirate, and his name came from the odd fabric in his pants. Bonny knew she would be executed because she tried to murder her father. Bonny wanted to assassinate the captain of the a ship. While he slept, Bonny poured the water into the cannons on his ship so that the cannons were unable to fire; hence, Bonny got all treasure. This paragraph talks about the capture of the pirate Anne Bonny. After her last brave fight she was captured. After her friend John Rackman was hung she said she was sorry to see him in this awakward situation. However, he had fought like a man but he has to die like a dog. The paragraph ends talking about there was no record in what happened to Anne Bonny. Was she executed or did she escape execution to become a nun?
Cheng I Sao was a woman who took in charge her deceased husband's piratical fleet which consisted of over 1500 ships that plundered the traffic on sea and towns from the whole Chinese coast to the far Malaysia. Cheng's battle plans and discipline were incredibly ruthless. She often used brute force and discipline as the punishments. The pirate offered two choices to the towns--extortion or destruction. The Chinese navy was too weak to fight back to the pirate. Cheng negotiated for her pirates to the government.

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