What It Was Like to Witness a Pirate Execution
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- Опубликовано: 13 ноя 2021
- During the Golden Age of Piracy, the growing British Empire went to great lengths to prevent lawlessness on the high seas. For centuries, pirates, privateers, buccaneers, and corsairs had taken to the water to wreak havoc against fellow seafarers, taking whatever they could find of value regardless of who suffered along the way.
By the 17th and 18th centuries, however, piracy threatened European empire-building, so to curb such behavior, Britain punished the marauders and put them on display. Unlike what you may see in the best pirate movies, the life of a pirate was hard - long months, even years, on a ship amid the elements made for dirty, treacherous days and nights - but doom for a pirate was even worse.
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Fun fact - the phrase "one for the road" comes from the practice of giving alcohol to the condemned.
Nice
Very interesting. I wish people still had cocktail parties. You know when people got together and shot the shit, argued politics, ate chips and onion dip? Then you could say did you know.....
Thank you
Love stuff like this ( tip my hat) thank you sir
Source?
"Want my treasure? You can have it. I left everything I own in One Piece."
"Why is the rum always gone?..." -Jack Sparrow
I think we have the answer now
The one pirate who beat the Brits, Jean Lafitte. His blacksmith shop is still in the French Quarter and the original firebox for the forge was still standing last time I was there.
Lafitte had Andrew Jackson on his side though.
Grace O'Malley didn't do too badly...
French quarter of Louisiana?
@@MoejiiOsmanTV new Orleans
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"The Bowel Inn" has to be the worst ever name for a drinking establishment I have heard
The Anus and Pucker.
I'm calling my Pub that!
@@lynnmori3282 no thanks I'm good
Better than bowels out.
@@lynnmori3282 instead of serving IPA you’d serve API
Perhaps the, 'Stagger Inn'? LOL I agree wth you though. :)
I don't mean come off like "that guy" but when are you going to continue the decade breakdowns? I really love those.
They're taking a break from it but will come back again
Just got finished watching the sleeping sickness video and BOOM… there’s another one for me to watch! ☺️
I know right! Don't you just love weird History!
Yeah me too I'm good I didn't fall asleep and was able to catch this
Nothing like a new Weird History video uploads right when you're already binging their videos. 😌
Waitaminit! So the song, "One more for the road" that Frank Sinatra (and countless others) sang was really about s*icide?
@@Shonuffmann Make sense tbh. A lot of older songs/lullabies have dark origins as well.
@@015kasandra what a mind blow! I'm a fan of that older music, and I never knew!
@@Shonuffmann Same! You should totally look into all the history of it all. Very fascinating to learn about.
@Gebby What if she’s not into fish/gash? 😆😂🤣🤷🏼♂️
One pirate captain on arrival at Execution Dock noted there was a small orchestra playing a variety of hymns and popular drinking and seamen’s. songs. When the executioner began securing the pirate’s hands and arms, he explained that the Admiralty had authorized a horrific torture before the condemned was hanged.
“Torture? What manner of torture?” asked the condemned man, “Ritual disembowelment?”
“No,” replied the executioner.
“The rack!?!” exclaimed the pirate.
“No,” replied the executioner.
“Pray tell me what manner of torture I must face, so that I might bear it well,” said the pirate.
“See the orchestra? The skinny guy third row, second chair from the left?”
“Yes. What has he to do with my fate?” said a puzzled man about to meet his Maker.
“He plays a ten minute oboe solo.”
LOL!😬
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And the solo starts "And she buyiiing a stairway to Heaaaven"
@@connorlancaster7541 I believed in Jesus once, but then I contracted sanity.
Perfect. I just finished rewatching the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy.
The Hoist the Colours opening of At World's End is still iconic and I think it managed to capture what a part of it was like.
Awesome video as usual! Thank you~♡
I love pirates of the Caribbean
@Ivanka what the actual ducking heck
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The pirate ship doctor idea would be such an awesome video!!
Can you guys do a video on the origins and history of gaming. Where'd blackjack come from? Why is a deck of cards the way it is? What did early humans play? What kind of games do they like that aren't based around gambling? A history of board games? Just some ideas for you guys. Keep it up I'm always looking forward to another weird history!
Fun fact backgammon is one of the oldest games in history that is still played today!
@@andrewrichardson2293 "parcheesi" too as it looks like it was vaguely based on the game of Ur. I have no sources to back this up but I noticed the similarities when that white bearded guy from the english museum played it with someone else. Here's the video of it btw. ruclips.net/video/WZskjLq040I/видео.html heck there's even an online version of it i just found out!
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Yo ho, all hands, hoist the colors high.
Love At World's End. Such an iconic scene!
Out of the three times that the narrator used ordinal numbers to name the centuries, the number displayed on the screen was wrong twice. 00:47 15th century reads "1600s"; 5:06 12th century reads "1300s"; 9:15 18th century reads "1700s" - so, it's not even consistently incorrect. Despite things like this(sometimes too often), it's still entertaining.
Gold D. Roger's last words from the gallows " You want my treasure? You can have it! I've left everything I own in one piece..."
I was looking for a comment about Gold Roger and his final words and FINALLY found it!
I was looking for this lol
Was literally searching for a one piece reference in the comments
I imagine their final moments and words were as diverse as the men themselves were in life.
Like proclaiming a legendary treasure exists and starting the golden age of piracy.
It was probably just crying moaning
Random fact.. the phrase pulling your leg 🦵 actually means hanging on to the dying.
I have an ancestor who was drawn and quartered in Jackson Square in New Orleans for piracy. From what I've read, the whole city came out to watch.
Whoah! You have a famous ancestor, I wonder if I do.
Do you know their name?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baptiste_Baudreau_II
@@WoodlouseFairy I don't think that would be famous
The clip depicting how the pirates would react while dying is truly disturbing. I wish I can unsee that.
Where?
@@curiodyssey3867 5:47 onwards
I don’t think their femur bones became flexible like rubber… (though maybe it felt that way)
I would assume it's like in Peter Pan when they walk you off the plank and there's some type of sea creature waiting for you underneath
Grace O’Malley (a. 1530 - 1603) is one of the most famous pirates of all time. From the age of eleven, she forged a career in seafaring and piracy and was considered a fierce leader at sea and a shrewd politician on land. She successfully defended the independence of her territories at a time when much of Ireland fell under the English rule and is still considered today ‘the pirate queen of Ireland.
Woke
Wow, she was a pirate since 11 years of age! When I was 11 I wished I was a pirate and ate chicken nuggets
Who?
@@wodens-hitman1552 Grace O'Malley, the pirate queen of Ireland
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I’m sure everyone had their own bag of popcorn.
"Chomp chomp crunch"
fact: If you survived 2 broken ropes you were given freedom, 500 gold pieces and were allowed to urinate on the judge that sentenced you, although this fact is one i came up with just now in my head
What a coincidence! I’ve been thinking of Pirate Executions recently!
Why?
@@Green_Stache_Productions Well I started thinking about my elementary days, and there was this one book about Pirates I kept checking out of our school library, it was an Eye Witness book if you ever heard of those.
Well, I read that book a bunch of times and looked at the pictures, and over the next several years I would watch history shows about them and read other books
And most recently I was thinking of that one pirate who said “Find my Treasure, ye who can!” Just before he died, I forget his name though, but I’ll bet he just wanted to waste everyone’s time as revenge for executing him, he probably didn’t have any treasure! Or it was all spent
I’ve also been meaning to get back to playing my recent AC4 Black Flag File
And that is Why I’ve been thinking of Pirate executions recently
Oh I left out an important detail of why executions specifically, that execution drumming tune (like the one heard at the end of Pirates of the Caribbean 1)
It’s, just so catchy!
Den den Deh na na
Den den deh na na
And then just as they finally execute the Pirate
They drum faster and then stop when the lever to drop the platform is pulled
And that is why
@@jasonhatt4295 I see. Very interesting. I heard AC3 and AC4 were pretty good
@@Green_Stache_Productions Yeah AC3 looked kinda fun, I played it a little bit, but mostly my brother played that.
I played ALOT of AC4 though, it's a great game! You get to be a pirate! and sail around! And fight stuff, and there's more to it than that lol, but those are the best parts of the game! The stories good too
Also there's Historical Pirates in the game too
Kidd was innocent. The documentation showing the ship he captured was legal were lost by the English courts for centuries until recovered recently.
"This day you will remember as the day you almost captured Captain Jack Sparrow"
I knew someone would quote that
Rack! *proceeds to make strangling noises
I’m surprised there is so much info surrounding pirate execution. Great episode
Yeah, I just thought it was the same of any other execution
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@@connorlancaster7541 hell no Jesus Christ is not real he's fake
@@wildlifewarrior2670 Prove that to me.
@@connorlancaster7541 everybody wants proof on the internet
I love these videos
Me too!!!!
Pirate history is always interesting
I'll never understand how people can find it entertaining to see someone die, no matter who it is or what they did.
Exactly it would have been so disturbing On top of that They called it MARSHALL's DANCE
It's kinda funny
Yeah man, ppl can be monsters specially when you count the mob factor and poverty/oppression
People are just curious about death and in those days it was seen as "entertainment"!!! It's not that hard to understand if you look into the times!
We're very much products of our times.
Mmmmm, I never saw any of this on the "Pirates of the Caribbean" ride at Disneyland.
I would like to know more about Anne Bonny & Mary Read, they seemed like really bad ass pirates
Many pirates were privateers at first. When the war was over their letter of marque was revoked. Unfortunately, many could not make the transition, so they continued their activities. Amnesties were offered and some took them, others did not. Note also that they often had strong contacts with merchants in places like New York and Boston, sometimes even financed by them. modern Somali pirates often show the same pattern.
Weird suggestion but could you do a video on post Mortom practices over the centuries?
Big thumbs up. History of piracy will always be awesome and considering the little amount of pirate movies, games etc we have it's very nice to see videos about their history and get to know them a little better.
Hear me out….. one piece 👁👄👁🔥🤌🏾
Why couldn't the pirate never recite the alphabet?
Because he was always got lost at C! ARRR!
I think that's the most wholesome joke I've ever heard 😄
I'm a big fan of Weird History channel
It's absurd that they wanna prolong the pirate's suffering by using short rope yet allowed the pirate to get drunk before the execution.
its like they cant make up their mind lol
its like they cant make up their mind lol
I like it
Even the guards would have been common folk and not like to see the suffering, so let it happen as a small mercy to the condemned...that's what I think
Hate to be that person but I must nit-pick that the claim that Anne Bonny did not hide her gender isn't entirely true. Though for the most part she acted as a woman whilst on board, when involved with other ships she opted to dress in men's clothing just as Mary Read did. Other than that it was another very informative and engaging watch like most other Weird History videos 👍
Pirate executions are tame compared to what happened to someone like William Wallace.
Who's he? And what happened to him?
@@aminahajayi he was a Scottish freedom fighter trying to get independence from England and then as an execution he got hanged, drawn and quartered
@@TheSofkujepanen Okay, Thank you so much by the way.
@@TheSofkujepanen try not to believe movies such as Braveheart where he was romanticised.
@@l4taylor never seen that movie but ok? Doesn't change what I said, or what do you mean?
Weird history convinced Ichabod Crane to cordially invite the Headless Horseman over for dinner.
"To Err is human, to Arr is pirate!"
A pirates life for me.
@Debby damian wtf
Yo ho, yo ho.
@Gebby congrats, all your spam has been reported
Awesome stuff!
By far my favorite channel!!!!
Fact check at 00:47-the fifteenth century was not the 1600s, it was the 1400s.
I appreciate how so many civilians even back then comprehended the inhumanity of the death sentence for property crime that they went through all these measures in order to try and ease the suffering, even if that meant attempting to make them die faster, all in the face of those who'd condemned them to death in the first place.
Also I think seeing a criminal like that its like a power fantasy, or maybe is like entertaining the notion of rebelling against the status quo
Perhaps we could revive the tradition! I bet those "property crimes" you speak of would stop if we publicly drowned the offenders.
Piracy nearly always involved murder on a brutal scale. The death sentence was very appropriate AFTER A FAIR TRIAL WAS GIVEN. (Fair trials often were in short supply.)
@@BulletproofPastor All trials were fair! Just that many were not sure who they were fair too? The accused or the accuser?
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it's pretty sick how Weird History uploaded this video while i was playing Assassin's Creed Black Flag right about now
Another excellent video. Thank you
Wow, three new video within a week, always waiting and always fascinating to watch, Keep up the good work 😁👍
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
The bowel inn? I heard the service is s**try.
Damn they killed the pirates because they downloaded Minecraft for free
A+ video!
LOVE IT! What a unique history!
Jack Sparrow approves this video
There should be captain in there…
Maybe this is something to consider for insider trading to!
Lol, this is specific😁
Weird History narrator = RUclips crack ❤😎
How do pirates know that they are pirates?
They think, therefore they ARRRR
They could never catch Captain Jack Sparrow. Lol
Thank you for this video ! 😊🌹
I witnessed a public pirate execution funnily enough. This guy final words before being executed was "You want my treasure, you can have it I left everything I gathered together in one place. Now you'll just have to find it!."
Nobody ever found it lol. Hopefully someone does!
Wtf??
a time traveler I see
@@Y4di You're a man of culture, I see.
No, you didn't.
You live in Somalia or something?
Let me guess: everyone is quoting Pirates of the Caribbean ....
Or one piece
I’m sorry, I feel kinda bad laughing about this (cuz the dude gets kicked down those stairs which looks mighty painful), but I just couldn’t help myself!! I laughed *WAYYYY* too hard starting around 4:36 !! 😂 I just love the Weird History channel - I always learn some very interesting new stuff, *PLUS* I get the nicely added perk of always getting at least one *BIG* belly laugh out of every video (even if the video’s topic isn’t a very cheery chipper one, TWHC still somehow manages to toss in some witty humor for a bit ‘o comic relief at all the right moments)! 😁 👏 👏 👏 👏
So… a *HUGE* Thank You to the Weird History Channel for giving me all the frequent giggles, chuckles, and guffaws! 🤪 😆 😂 🤣 😅 😜
Edit: Hell yeh, I’d prefer to be extremely high and extremely drunk during my execution (who wouldn’t)?! Bless those who provided the booze and such to the unlucky pirates on the way to their deaths. Great video as usual, but I was a bit disappointed there was no scene or small clip from any of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies! 😂 Totally kidding (well, mostly kidding anyway)! 😉
Kind of ironic that if your king says you can be a a privateer its is all good but if you do the same things for your own profit you are a bad guy.
worst. Difference between the police and common man
I love this channel omg! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Would be interesting to see a version of this on how other nations other than Britain handled pirates. Countries like France, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Sweden, etc. Also Frenchman's Creek is a very interesting novel about a French pirate who raids the Cornish coast and meets an English aristocrat he ends up falling in love with.
Pirates were tame compared to the history of the British they had the largest empire in the world at one time Churchill himself was a conqoror of India and he was as brutal as any other conqoror but history gives him a pass because. he helped take down Hitler
@@charlesciminera5881 Stalin also assisted the allies with taking out Hitler and he is considered a worst dictator than Hitler by many people. So if Stalin doesn't get a pass how exactly does Churchill get a pass?
@@winnienguyen4420 my point entirely I didn't say I give him a pass but history as were taught it certainly dose Churchill in reality was not a very good man
@@charlesciminera5881 many politicians of that particular time period tend to have had some bad attributes. FDR apparently snubbed Jesse Owens from visiting the White House after his victory in the 1936 Olympics. Francisco Franco was as much a Fascist as Mussolini and Hitler were yet remained in power until the 1970s. Charles De Gaulle by all accounts was a quite unsavory character behind the scenes. Eva Peron allowed Nazis to hide out in Argentina to escape justice. And of course as you said Churchill causing problems in India is yet another controversy. I'm just thankful I wasn't around back in those times, particularly being an Asian in the United States I imagine would have been quite a sad life.
Very good I'm impressed with the fact that you have done your research you seem very humanistic and I wish you the best
Thanks for this! 🏴☠️
Honestly I read that backwards, I thought they were gonna talk about walking the plank and the executions that pirates performed, not pirates getting executed. D'oh!
Weird History: What's worse; a regular Execution or a Pirate Execution?
*Me: It's all bad news, buddy!*
Great history videos well made and calming thank you for being a great RUclipsr
I would say witnessing it would be JARRRRING.
Seeing one mustve been harrrrrrrrd to watch
I had no idea that pirate ships had chaplains. Very interesting.
They're Pirates not Catholics 😂
Perfect vid for a lazy Sunday afternoon.
haha thought it said parrot lol
Let's not forget the 'flibbertygibbet' which spun the corpse wildly in high wind. Entertaining until things became a little...ah....loose. Then look out.
Sweet vid
I'd be interested to see a video on ships' mascots, thanks!
I've Been choked out. Ur unconscious in seconds so shorts drops or breaking the neck makes no difference
It’s generally accepted that to strangle someone to death takes ~3-5 minutes of steady/continual pressure. 2 1/2 minutes is considered very quick. A person may (or may not) lose consciousness in ~10-30 seconds, but death takes longer - and if pressure is removed, the person can regain consciousness.
ETA: 3-5 mins is common but it can also take as long as 10 minutes for a person to die as opposed to being so strongly unconscious that they appear dead, but later regain consciousness.
Love your channel. Take this as you wish but you and Oxhorn share the same storytelling characteristics. Extremely good voice for these.
Can u do a video on the History of Talk Like a Pirate Day? ☺️
You would never download a guillotine, PIRACY IS A CRIME
😁😁😁
Gol D. Roger's final words
I hope some pirate somewhere used his last speech to tell the crowd and crown "Please bury me upside down so you can all kiss my ass"
Pls make a video on:-
What happened on the birthday of Kings/Queens in the middle ages.
5:50 is so funny that im actually crying. Anyone else? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
What did the pirate say on his 80th birthday ?
Aye Matey !
The chaplain trolling joke .lmfao.
they need to bring this back 2022
Takers taking away from the Takers, love it. ⛵🏴☠️🔱
6:22
Weird History: "..making him both a pirate and a slayer."
Me: {whispers} Buffy!
I always wonder what a pirates diet was like…. I imagine a lot of Sushi?!
Without the Wasabi and soy sauce, or even spicy Mayo I would think a bit on the bland side.
Arguably the coolest way to go out in history.
Have you made a video about all monarch beheadings? Such as Anne boleyn, mary queen of scot’s and marie Antoinette? i’d love to watch
8:00 One of my elder brother's classmates is named James Lowery (he is actually James Lowery III).
I talked with him not long ago after seeing a movie at our hometown movie theater (my godparents, who own the theater, let us just hang out and talk after the movie is done).
Eating ANOTHER Weird History meal!
Eating CHEF BOYARDEE Mini RAVIOLI*† (with two American singles slices melted on top)...while watching this Weird History video!
Since my hometown was platted the same year Treasure Island was originally published and because ravioli is popular in the area!
* From the Weird History video "Who Was the Real Chef Boyardee?"
† I also put basil in the ravioli and parmesan cheese on top of it (over the American Slices).
The difference between a pirate and a privateer-A privateer steals from your enemy, a pirate steals from you.
Make a video about pirate ship doctors!
Nice
Shivered the timbers aye
I don't know what's worse. Being hung as entertainment or being trolled before I died.