Ching Shih

   

     Lots of people like pirates, and when you think of pirates you think of people such as Black Beard, Capitan Morgan (Maybe, because he has this drink named after him) Capitan Crunch and Captain Jack Sparrow, and others....okay the last two are made up, and one of them might not even be a pirate (as far as I know, like maybe they are both based on a real person?) but the first two are not, and both are legends along with other real life pirates, but here's a funny thing both of them, or any pirate for that matter would tremble in fear to the most ruthless and powerful pirate in the history of the world, Ching Shih, and you want to know a fact about this pirate? well take a look at this pirate.

     That's right the pirate was a woman, and she did not play around, and and that could be why Morgan has this rum drink named after him, because he feared this pirate would take his booty, so he got drunk to deal with this fear.



     So maybe you want to know a little about her career, well read this for Wikipedia, the famouse info website, "The fleet under her command established hegemony over many coastal villages, in some cases even imposing levies and taxes on settlements. According to Robert Antony, Ching Shih "robbed towns, markets, and villages, from Macau to Canton." In 1806 a British officer reported on the terrible fate of those who resisted Ching Shih's pirates. The pirates had nailed an enemy's feet to the deck and then beaten him senseless Contemporary reports from the British admiralty called her “The Terror of the South China."


     The Chinese navy lost sixty-three ships in the attacks. The Red Flag Fleet under Ching Shih's rule could not be defeated — not by Chinese officials, not by the Portuguese navy, and not by the British. Finding it hopeless to defeat her, in 1810, amnesty was offered to all pirates, and Ching Shih took advantage of it She ended her career that year, accepting an amnesty offer from the Chinese government. She kept her loot, and opened a gambling house. She died in 1844, at the age of 69.


     Yeah, she did not uckfay around!!!!