Little Newcastle
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Little Newcastle is a village, parish and former civil parish in the community of Puncheston in Pembrokeshire, Wales. A map of 1578 shows the parish as Newcastle.
Village street in Little Newcastle
Bart Roberts' memorial stone in the village giving him under his nickname "Barti Ddu" ("Black Bart")
St. Peter's Church in Little Newcastle
Golden Age of Piracy
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The Golden Age of Piracy was the period between the 1650s and the 1730s, when maritime piracy was a significant factor in the histories of the North Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
Little Newcastle
…as the birthplace of the pirate Bartholomew Roberts (Barti Ddu), who was born in the village in 1682. Roberts is the most successful pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy, and is noted for creating a Pirate Code, and adopting an early variant of the Skull and Crossbones flag. There is a monument to him in the village…
1920 painting of Blackbeard's final battle against Robert Maynard in 1718
Amaro Pargo, a Spaniard who was one of the most famous corsairs of the Golden Age of Piracy
Henry Every is shown selling his loot in this engraving by Howard Pyle. Every's capture of the Grand Mughal ship Ganj-i-Sawai in 1695 stands as one of the most profitable pirate raids ever perpetrated.