In 1695, Kidd received a royal commission from the Earl of Bellomont, the governor of New York, Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire, to hunt down pirates and enemy French ships in the Indian Ocean. He received a letter of marque and set …

2025年1月29日 · William Kidd, byname Captain Kidd, 17th-century privateer and semilegendary pirate who became celebrated in English literature as one of the most colorful outlaws of all time. Fortune seekers have hunted his buried treasure in vain through succeeding centuries.

2014年4月2日 · William Kidd is one of the most famous pirates in history, remembered for his execution for piracy on the Indian Ocean. (1645-1701) Who Was William Kidd? William Kidd started out as a...

2021年8月25日 · Captain William Kidd (c. 1645-1701) was a Scottish privateer turned pirate who, despite only ever capturing one significant prize ship, has become legendary thanks to the persistent rumour he buried a fantastic treasure that nobody has yet found.

2022年7月28日 · Many myths and legend surround the history of Captain Kidd, and one such legend was that the pirate buried his treasure before returning to New York. Captain Kidd did bury some treasure on Gardiners Island, just off the coast of Long Island , New York.

2025年1月22日 · In 1695, Captain William Kidd received a royal commission to attack pirates and French ships in the Indian Ocean in order to protect English trade routes. Officially, his mission was to attack the ships and protect English trade.

2019年5月8日 · William Kidd (c. 1654–May 23, 1701) was a Scottish ship’s captain, privateer, and pirate. He started out on a voyage in 1696 as a pirate hunter and privateer, but he soon switched sides and had a brief but moderately successful career as a pirate.

On 6 September 1696, Kidd and a crew of 150 men left New York aboard the 32-gun Adventure Galley, bound for the Indian Ocean. One of the pirates he set out to capture was Robert Culliford, who sailed with a surgeon named Jon Death.

Captain William Kidd was a 17th-century Scottish sailor who became one of the best-known privateers of his time. He began his career as a legitimate English Privateer before he was tried and executed for piracy in 1701.

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