Jacquotte Delahaye was a French pirate, or Buccaneer

Buccaneer

The buccaneers were privateers who attacked Spanish shipping in the Caribbean Sea during the late 17th century.The term buccaneer is now used generally as a synonym for pirate...

, and together with Anne Dieu-Le-Veut

Anne Dieu-le-Veut

Anne Dieu-Le-Veut also called Marie-Anne or Marianne was a French Pirate, a so called Buccaneer, and together with Jaquotte Delahaye one of very few female ones....

 one of very few female buccaneers

Women in piracy

While piracy was predominantly a male activity or occupation, a significant minority of historical pirates have been female. Female pirates, like other women in crime, faced unique issues in practicing this occupation and in punishment for it....

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She was active in the 1660s, came from Haiti

Haiti

Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...

, her father was French and her mother Haitian. She is described as a great beauty who became a pirate after her father was killed. It is rumored that her mother died in childbirth. Her brother suffered from mild retardation and was left in her care after her father's death.

To escape her pursuers, she faked her own death and took on an alias, living as a man for many years. Upon returning she became known as "back from the dead red" because of her striking red hair.

External links

• http://www.privateerdragons.com/pirate_list.html
• http://kiba.vox.com/library/post/pirate-quotes.html