The Notorious Pirate King Who Vanished With the Riches of a Mughal Treasure Ship In the late 17th century, Henry Avery—the subject of the first global manhunt—bribed his way into the Bahamas ...

This rogue letter was labeled as written by Avery the Pirate. Henry Avery, who had seized an English frigate and commandeered a flotilla of 440 men and six ships, attacked a Mughal ship called the ...

Henry Avery, the Pirate King, vanished after the biggest raid in history (Image: Getty) A centuries-old mystery has been solved after a pirate's lost letter was discovered.

Henry Every’s raid of the Ganj-i-Sawai was so large, it triggered a diplomatic crisis. Yet few people have heard of this audacious pirate.

Notorious pirate Captain Henry Avery committed the most lucrative act of piracy ever when he pillaged £600,000 of gold - worth £90 million today - from an armed trading ship of the Mughal empire.

In Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, the unimaginable treasure of the pirate Henry Every (alternately written as "Avery") not only provides a catalyst for Nathan Drake's final adventure, it also allows ...

When pirate Henry Avery hijacked a Mughal ship, souring Aurangzeb’s ties with East India Company Assurances that the pirates, though English, had nothing to do with the East India Company, ...

In September 1695, a fleet of pirate ships commanded by Henry Every (also known as Henry Avery) attacked a convoy of 25 ships that belonged to the Mughal Empire of South Asia.

Henry Every’s birth and death attracted little notice. He was born perhaps as Henry Avery on the southwest coast of England. He may have been press-ganged into the Royal Navy. And his death went ...

There’s no denying that the story of Henry Avery, known as the King of the Pirates, is an exciting one. Raised “around the docks and decks of the wooden ships in the ports of Bideford and ...