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2 unusual facts about Jack Ward


Jack Ward

In 1612 a play called A Christian Turn'd Turk was written about his conversion by the English dramatist Robert Daborne.

Thomas B. Costain

For his first, he wrote about the seventeenth-century pirate John Ward aka Jack Ward.


Zymen Danseker

Danseker and the English pirate John Ward were the two most prominent renegades operating in the Barbary coast during the early 17th century, both of whom were said to command squadrons in Algiers and Tunis equal to their European counterparts, and represented a formidable naval power as allies (much like Aruj and Hayreddin Barbarossa the previous century).


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