http://thomo.coldie.net Thomo's most excellent web home - travel, cooking, military & naval history, wargaming, cheeseburgers Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:52:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://thomo.coldie.net/wargames/hordes-of-the-things/pirates-ahoy/comment-page-1#comment-18618 thomo the lost Tue, 25 May 2004 21:20:26 +0000 http://thomo.coldie.net/?page_id=559#comment-18618 It should be noted that the most successful Pirate ever was a female. The Chinese Pirate Cheng I Sao (Ching Yih Saou on the other method of transliteration of Chinese characters) was a former prostitute who had married a pirate. He died and she inherited the family business, increasing the size of the pirate fleet to around 1,000 boats and 70-80,000 pirates. Eventually the government came to terms with her and pardoned her if she stopped pirating (they had already lost 63 vessels trying to put her out of business by force). Well worth further investigation. It should be noted that the most successful Pirate ever was a female. The Chinese Pirate Cheng I Sao (Ching Yih Saou on the other method of transliteration of Chinese characters) was a former prostitute who had married a pirate. He died and she inherited the family business, increasing the size of the pirate fleet to around 1,000 boats and 70-80,000 pirates. Eventually the government came to terms with her and pardoned her if she stopped pirating (they had already lost 63 vessels trying to put her out of business by force). Well worth further investigation.

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