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HISTORY BEHIND THE FICTION

The History Locker

Discover the real people, places and stories that shaped the dangerous world of The Penjerrick Chronicles.

Pirates & Buccaneers

Meet the historical buccaneers who sailed the seventeenth-century Caribbean and discover how their lives became woven into The Penjerrick Chronicles.

Cigarette-card portrait of Michiel Andrieszoon

Michiel Andrieszoon

The Dutch Buccaneer Lost to History

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The Pirate’s Wake · Dead Man’s Debt
Jellas de Lecat

Jellas de Lecat

The Captain Jamaica Couldn’t Catch

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Dead Man’s Debt
Cigarette-card portrait of Pierre Le Picard

Pierre Le Picard

From L’Olonnais’s Lieutenant to Captain

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The Pirate’s Wake
Cigarette-card portrait of Henry Morgan

Henry Morgan

The Buccaneer Who Became a Knight

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Dead Man’s Debt (briefly) · Upcoming Book 3
Cigarette-card illustration of Philippe Bequel.

Philippe Bequel

The Buccaneer Who Guided the King's Ships

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The Pirate’s Wake
Cigarette-card portrait of William Jackson

William Jackson

The Privateer Who Raided Jamaica

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Dead Man’s Debt
Cigarette-card portrait of François L’Olonnais

​François L’Olonnais

The Scourge of the Spanish

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The Pirate’s Wake
Cigarette-card portrait of Daniel Montbars

Daniel Montbars

The Exterminator in the Making

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The Pirate’s Wake
Cigarette-card portrait of Roche Braziliano

Roche Braziliano

The Drunken Terror of the Spanish Main

APPEARS IN

The Pirate’s Wake · Dead Man’s Debt
Michel Le Basque

Michel le Basque

The Buccaneer Who Led the Men Ashore

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The Pirate's Wake
Cigarette-card portrait of Edward Mansvelt

Edward Mansvelt

Admiral of the Buccaneers

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Dead Man’s Debt
Cigarette-card portrait of Moïse Vauquelin

Moïse Vauquelin

The Captain Who Charted the Caribbean

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The Pirate’s Wake

More from The History Locker

The collection is growing. Check back for more pirate profiles, articles from The Bookaneer’s Log, and explorations of the ports, towns, ships and everyday life of the seventeenth-century Caribbean.

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