The Battle of the Tiger's Mouth (Chinese: 虎門之戰; Portuguese: Batalha da Boca do Tigre) was a series of engagements between a Portuguese flotilla stationed...

the Battle of the Tiger's Mouth. Cheung Po (Chinese: 張保) was born in 1783. He was a son of a Tanka[citation needed] fisherman who lived in Xinhui of Jiangmen...

who operated in the Bahamas during the end of the Golden Age of Piracy. Vane was likely born in the Kingdom of England around 1680. One of his first pirate...

captain who features in a number of novels, television series, and films. The original character was created by the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson...

The Republic of Pirates was the base and stronghold of a loose confederacy run by privateers-turned-pirates in Nassau on New Providence island in the...

serious battle. Under his shirt, his torso is heavily scarred from many of the battles he has fought, especially since he joined the Straw Hats (like the one...

portrayal of Silver has greatly influenced the modern iconography of the pirate. Long John Silver has a parrot, named Captain Flint in honor—or mockery—of his...

French man-of-war. The ship was at least twice as large as Vane's brigantine, and it immediately pursued them. Vane commanded a retreat from battle, claiming...

Macau defeated a group of Chinese pirates in the Battle of the Tiger's Mouth. The first major battle of the First Opium War between the United Kingdom and...

Edward Robinson, the ship's gunner, who would later be involved in the Battle of Cape Fear River. Blackbeard made Israel Hands captain of the Adventure and...

of maritime piracy and armed robbery against ships to the International Maritime Bureau. 288 acts of global piracy and robbery were recorded by the MICA...

pronunciation; born 1990) is a Somali convicted pirate. He is the sole survivor of four pirates who hijacked the MV Maersk Alabama in April 2009 and then held Captain...

side of the ship, and dragged under the ship's keel, either from one side of the ship to the other, or the length of the ship (from bow to stern). The common...

piracy was marked by 120 events of maritime piracy against ships, according to the annual Piracy and Armed Robbery Report of the ICC International Maritime...

remains are consigned to the depths of the ocean (to be sent to Davy Jones' Locker). The origins of the name of Davy Jones, the sailors' devil, are unclear...

Macau. In September 1809, Cheung was attacked by Portuguese Navy in the Tiger's Mouth. In November, Cheung was besieged by Chinese-Portuguese Navy in Chek...

stormed the seized freighter, ensuing in a five-hour gun battle with the gangs, in which two police officers were injured and several of the two gang's...

number. The first military land action overseas of the United States was executed by the US Marines and the US Navy in 1805 at the Battle of Derna, at...

Walking the plank was a method of execution practiced on special occasion by pirates, mutineers, and other rogue seafarers. For the amusement of the perpetrators...

Gross of Pirates: From Alfhild the Shield Maiden to Afweyne the Big Mouth. Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781445682938. Archived from the original...

Barrow (died 1726) was a pirate active in the Caribbean. He is best known for proclaiming himself Governor of New Providence. Barrow had captained a ship...

princess, Shirahoshi, and are drawn into a battle for the island against the Fishman supremacist Hody Jones. He, the crew, and Jimbei conceive a plan to defeat...

off the Venezuelan coast (which he calls the Island of Despair) near the mouth of the Orinoco River on 30 September 1659.: Chapter 23  He observes the latitude...

The 1715 Treasure Fleet was actually a combination of two Spanish treasure fleets returning from the New World to Spain, the "Nueva España Fleet", under...

around his mouth, to assist in the motion capture of his character's Scottish accent. Davy Jones briefly appears as a human for a single scene in the third...

port of Hampton, Virginia, the head was displayed on a spike near the mouth of the Hampton River as a warning to other pirates. Lieutenant Maynard remained...

subsequently reunite with Luffy at the ruins of Oden Castle, where the samurai Kin'emon discusses a decisive battle against the Beast Pirates, led by Kaido. Nami...

of 1620, evidence suggests that the blunderbuss was relatively scarce in the American colonies. After the Battle of Lexington in 1775, British General...

captured on 27 September 1718 at the mouth of the Cape Fear River. All but four were tried and hanged in Charles Town. The author Robert Lee surmised that...

concentration of around 80,000 men of the Chinese army in front of the city gates. In 1809, the famous naval battle of the Tiger's Mouth (or Bocca Tigris) took place...