In 1695, former English sailor Henry Every led a crew of mutineers against the enormous Ganj-i-Sawai, a ship carrying immense riches of the Mughal Empire. The loot was so vast that every surviving pirate became rich overnight, but the attack enraged Emperor Aurangzeb, threatened the East India Company, and triggered an international manhunt stretching from the shores of India to the American colonies. How did an ordinary sailor manage to seize one of the greatest treasures of the age, outwit the fleets of two empires, and vanish without a trace along with his fortune?

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https://www.worldhistory.org/Henry_Ev...
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/27083402
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