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Henry Every
The plunder of Emperor Aurangzebs treasure ship had serious consequences for the English. The Company had seen its total annual imports drop from a peak of £800,000 in 1684, to just £30,000 in 1695, and Everys attack now threatened the very existence of English trade in India. When the damaged Ganj-i-sawai finally limped its way back to harbor in Surat, news of the pirates attack on the pilgrims—a sacrilegious act that, like the raping of the Muslim women, was considered an unforgivable violation of the Hajj - spread quickly.
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To appease Aurangzeb, the East India Company promised to pay all financial reparations, while Parliamemt declared the pirates hostis humani generis ("enemies of the human race"). In mid-1696, the government issued a £500 bounty on Everys head and offered a free pardon to any informer who disclosed his whereabouts. When the East India Company later doubled that reward, the first worldwide manhunt in recorded history was underway. The English government made him exempt from any pardons that were extended to other pirates.
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Everys crew split up, heading to the West Indies and North America, the rest, including Every, returned to Britain. Some sailed aboard the sloop Isaac, while Every and about twenty other men sailed in the sloop Sea Flower to Ireland at the end of June 1696. They aroused suspicions while unloading their treasure, and two of the men were subsequently caught. Every, however, was able to escape once again.
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Some sources say he changed his name on return to Britain and vanished in to obscurity, others suggested he started a pirate utopia on an unknown tropical island, the only thing that is fact is that he was never heard from again. .
As his exploits became legendary he undoubtedly influenced others to take up piracy later life, namely Blackbeard, Calico Jack, Bartholomew Robets and Charles Vane, who would have been just small boys at the time of the greatest heist in piratical history.
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Every was said to have used a sideways deaths head with bones across on a red or black background.
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