Tilcayo Cats:Piracy

Pirates: history and the stories told about it. Explore maritime raiding, the people who organised it and the fictional characters it inspired. The articles distinguish evidence from legend and use non-graphic language suitable for a general readership.

Seventeen Originals live — one C-Class, eleven Start-Class and five Stub-Class. These are initial editorial assessments, with evidence gaps recorded on the talk pages.

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Women and pirate stories

• Elizabeth Killigrew — a woman associated with organising the Killigrew family's maritime ventures. Stub-Class.
• Mary Wolverston — a separate account of Elizabeth's daughter-in-law, needed to avoid merging their identities. Stub-Class.
• Gunpowder Gertie — a fictional pirate of the Kootenay region, with documented later appearances. Start-Class.

Naval careers

• Renato Beluche — a privateer and naval officer whose career linked New Orleans with Venezuela. The sources disagree over his birth date. C-Class.
• Gabriel de Chambres Boisbaudran — the Maltese Order's galley commander who died in the 1644 encounter near Rhodes. Start-Class.

• Louis Chighizola — a lieutenant of Jean Lafitte and landowner on Grand Isle. Stub-Class.

• François Grogniet — a French buccaneer involved in raids against Granada and Guayaquil. Start-Class.
• Bledry Morgan — a colonel in Henry Morgan’s Panama expedition, also recorded as Blodre. Stub-Class.

Colonial government

• Jacques Nepveu — governor of Tortuga and Saint-Domingue, whose administration combined naval activity and negotiation. Start-Class.

• Juan de Pando y Estrada — governor of Cartagena during a period of buccaneer attacks and disputed trade. Start-Class.

• Benjamin Bennett — governor of Bermuda involved in disputes over privateering and maritime justice. Start-Class.

Indigenous intermediaries

• John Gret — a Guna intermediary whose negotiations and death are described through William Dampier’s account. Start-Class.

Games and representations

• Lords of the Spanish Main — a board game about trade, colonies and piracy in the seventeenth-century Caribbean. Start-Class.

Find your bearings

• Piracy — an introduction to maritime raiding and the difference between history and pirate stories. Start-Class.
• Privateer — raiding authorised by a government commission. Start-Class.
• Buccaneer — a term associated with Caribbean raiders. Start-Class.

• Bermuda — a short geographical introduction to the islands governed by Bennett. Stub-Class.

Collection in progress

The saved source list contains 790 request entries under 711 different title strings. It includes repetitions, aliases, people, places and fictional subjects, so these are not counts of distinct historical pirates. Twelve requested subjects are covered so far; five further articles supply directly relevant context or identity clarification. The remaining requests still need individual source and identity review. Female entries have priority.

A short, accurate account is preferable to invented detail. All genuine Originals remain protected from deletion or replacement merely because of their grade. Supporting pages for living people or active organisations require James's explicit approval of any structural-need exception before publication.