Qui est sorti avec Anne Bonny?

Anne Bonny, née Cormac à Cork à une date comprise, selon les sources, entre 1697 et 1705 et disparue en 1721, est une femme pirate, issue d’une famille irlandaise. Elle a navigué avec Jack «Calico» Rackham et Mary Read. Le nom masculin qu'elle a utilisé est Adam Bonny. Alors que Mary Read meurt de fièvre en prison en avril 1721, le destin d'Anne Bonny reste inconnu.

Tout ce que l’on sait à propos d’Anne Bonny provient de légendes et de rares documents officiels : la plupart des informations disponibles aujourd’hui au sujet des pirates les plus connus proviennent de différentes publications du XVIII^e siècle, dont les auteurs sont souvent des pirates eux-mêmes.

John Rackham (hanged 18 November 1720) was an English pirate operating in the Bahamas and Jamaica during the early 18th century. Although only referred to as John Rackham in primary sources, he is best known today by the likely fictional nickname Calico Jack. Rackham was active in 1720, towards the end of the Golden Age of Piracy, and is most remembered for having two female pirate crew members: Anne Bonny and Mary Read.

Most of Rackham's life prior to piracy is unknown. The first biography of Rackham comes from Captain Charles Johnson's 1724 book A General History of the Pyrates. According to Johnson, Rackham was a pirate from England who served under Charles Vane before becoming captain. Though Johnson's version of events has become generally accepted, there is little evidence to support it.

Rackham first appears in records around August 1720 after stealing merchant John Ham's sloop from Nassau harbor on 22 August. After a short two-month run, Rackham was captured by Jonathan Barnet, a former English privateer, on 22 October 1720. Rackham was put on trial by Sir Nicholas Lawes, Governor of Jamaica, and hanged on the 18th of November that year in Port Royal, Jamaica.