Kidd was executed for piracy and murder at Execution Dock on the River Thames, and his body was subsequently placed in gibbet and displayed over the River Thames at Tilbury Point.
The British pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was killed during a battle with British sailors under the command of Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
With the impressive Ganj-i-Sawai incapacitated, Every’s crew boarded the ship and looted the valuable cargo, which is estimated to have been worth hundreds of thousands of pounds at the time.
The First Barbary War lasted until June 1805, but continuing tensions led to the Second Barbary War in 1815.
Marooned alone on Más a Tierra Island in the uninhabited Juan Fernández archipelago, Selkirk survived for more than four years, foraging for food and hunting wild goats, while using the limited tools available to him to construct huts for shelter.
Radio 1’s target demographic was, and has continued to be, the 15-29 year old age group which means the music it broadcasts has evolved throughout the station’s history.
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