Henry Every

Henry Every (born 20 August 1659, vanished 1696) was an English pirate called the Arch Pirate. As first mate of the warship Charles II, he took command in a mutiny at Corunna in 1694, renamed her Fancy and was elected captain.

On 7 September 1695 he led a pirate squadron that captured the Grand Mughal's treasure ships Fateh Muhammed and Ganj-i-Sawai off India, seizing plunder worth up to six hundred thousand pounds, the richest prize of the pirate age.

The raid outraged the Mughal court; the Privy Council and East India Company offered a reward for Every, sparking a worldwide manhunt, but he eluded it and disappeared in 1696.