Henry Every: The King of Pirates

Most pirates catch a big score before being caught themselves. During the Golden Age of Piracy, most pirates met their fate at the end of a rope or the bottom of the sea.

Today, we tell you about the exception. This is story of Henry Every: the pirate who robbed more than $500,000 in riches and got away with it.

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Wealth, fame, power. Henry Avery King of the Pirates achieved this and everything else the world had to offer

[Mr.LunaRivera]

Wealth, fame, power. Henry Every the king of the pirates obtained this and everything else the World had to offer. And his dying words drove countless souls to the seas. “You want my treasure? You can have it! I left everything I gathered Together in one place. Now you just have to find it!

[yunleung]

On his execution, Avery said: “My Treasure? Why I left it all in that one place.”

[jakejuracka]

I love that Uncharted starts with real people and events that make the foundation for their fiction. And even their fiction is based on folklore of the time. Really helps to ground the story!

[austinish]

He probably went to Tahiti, cause his crew has got faith.

[TC-cxgm]

You guys missed out the part when he founded Libertalia with Thomas Tew

[royalewithcheese]

"I am a man of fortune, and I must seek my fortune." -Henry Avery

[evolvedcopper]

Norrington: "You are without a doubt the worst pirate I've ever heard of"

Jack: "But you have heard of me"

[manuelacosta]

What a true pirate. He pulled off that one raid that made him wealthy and then purposefully vanished to enjoy his fortune without scrutiny. It's telling that the only information about his post raid life is anecdotal, muddled and contradictory. Other pirates sure didn't take his lesson seriously.

[Aramis]

As The History Guy always says - "Don't all good stories involve pirates?"

[renegadetrooper]

Luffy: I’m going to be king of the pirates!
Henry: lol

[josephlilley]

What a crazy life to live. Can you imagine the things this man has seen and done. It's unimaginable lol. Crazy how people like Henry Avery didn't even know that far into the future he would be considered one of the greatest pirates in history.

[killian]

Indeed Henry Avery was undoubtedly the king of pirates but the character who inspires Gol D Roger is a French pirate: Olivier Levasseur who had amassed 4.5 billion euros. Before his hanging in public place he threw a cryptograme in the crowd shouting: "My treasure will be with whoever takes it". And since no one has ever found it ...

[lalboimanlun]

I thought it's Gol D Roger who was the pirate king all this time.

[TheTeletrap]

"Every eventually won out as he had the biggest ship."
"It probably didn't hurt that Every's ship was the most powerful in hundreds of miles."

He had that BIG SHIP ENERGY

[moriarty]

Henry Avery seems to parallel Luffy more than Rogers. Came from a prominent family, started sea travelling when he was young, a grand alliance vs a big superpower (Straw Hat Grand Fleet) and finding the greatest treasure ever.

[nursejoshua]

Narrator: Wealth, fame, power. The world had it all won by one man: the Pirate King, Gold Roger. At his death, the words he spoke drove countless men out to sea.
Gold Roger: My treasure? It's yours if you want it. Find it! I left all the world has there!
Narrator: And so men set sights on the Grand Line, in pursuit of their dreams. The world has truly entered a Great Pirate Era!

[ioncamin]

ive learned more history from this man in the past 2 days binging his videos than my entire life, thanks Simon!

[ak]

Sam and Nathan drake are still looking for his treasure

[TSCTH]

What about an episode of the greatest pirate in all of history; the pirate queen Madame Ching.
She literally had her own pirate army, held China hostage, and got away with all of it.