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 KZbin 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

[@spirospagiatis4731]

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

[@Vicus_of_Utrecht]

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

[@_p3t3r_34]

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]

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

[@Imdangriffiths]

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

[@GoldandGunpowder]

Cheers Daniel

[@petejames4222]

You mean "inlets", not islands

[@Imdangriffiths]

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

[@burntx7]

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]

thanks raymond

[@robertdavis1255]

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

[@unknowntrooper_2791]

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!🏴‍☠️

[@brendanturner2362]

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]

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]

Damn, Davis is severely underrated!

[@cfox7811]

great narration.

[@hermitgisvids]

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]

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

[@unknowntrooper_2791]

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]

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

[@beanlord4347]

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

[@nikevisor54]

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]

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]

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

[@quistan2]

@@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]

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

[@wipingmyasswithsticks]

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

[@scottmiller1297]

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

[@silvertortoise3776]

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

[@johnalexander178]

Great job

[@dano9411]

Beauty. Subbed.

[@BRAgamer]

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.

[@sailingpillager4685]

Loving the video's.

[@karmaticdeer3727]

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

[@internetkurator9256]

I am vibing your Monkey Island background music

[@Bulecast12]

Ur S tier YT channel

[@donluchitti]

Great great great productions

[@charliebalch3023]

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

[@GoldandGunpowder]

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

[@rumpleforeskin5064]

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

[@lionofthemorning7997]

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]

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.

[@arimendelson8875]

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

[@Paperbutton9]

damn this a good video

[@TinyHistoryOfficial]

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

[@GoldandGunpowder]

see the video description

[@MyRkAcc]

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

[@allancypher633]

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

[@allancypher633]

you can find the manual, pirate flags on line

[@fvuucst574g6]

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]

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

[@piraticvs]

3:17 BARS!

[@paulsteele8614]

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

[@docapathy6706]

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

[@GoldandGunpowder]

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

[@docapathy6706]

@@GoldandGunpowder thank you

[@fourshore502]

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

[@LCCWPresents]

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

[@flacons2110]

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

[@GoldandGunpowder]

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

[@shithorse3781]

😊

[@fraserleask5189]

poor audio.

[@Vicus_of_Utrecht]

Al gore's rythym

[@MugRoohBeerh5812]

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