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Charles Vane

2014-01-16T02:44:54Z

173.175.29.99: /* Imprisonment */

{{Era|AC4}}
{{WP-REAL}}
{{Spoilerhd}}
{{Quote|So, this is the new Libertalia, eh? Stinks the same as every other squat I've robbed this past year.|Charles Vane upon arriving in Nassau, 1717.|Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag}}
{{Character Infobox
|image = AC4 Charles Vane render.png
|birth = c.1680 England
|death = 29 March 1721 (aged 40) [[Port Royal]], [[Kingston]], [[Jamaica]]
|affiliates = [[Piracy|Brethren of the Coast]]
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]''
|voice = [[Ralph Ineson]]}}
'''Charles Vane''' (c.1680 – 1721) was an [[United Kingdom|English]] [[Piracy|pirate]] captain who sailed the [[Caribbean|West Indies]] on his [[Brig|brigantine]], the ''[[Ranger]]''. He made a name for himself by targeting English, [[Spain|Spanish]] and [[France|French]] industry [[ships]] from 1716 until 1719, and was notorious for his harsh treatment of [[Merchants|merchant]] seafarers and soldiers alike.

==Biography==
===Early life===
Like his compatriots [[Benjamin Hornigold]], [[Edward Thatch]] and [[Edward Kenway]], Vane worked as a privateer under the British crown. As late as 1715 he operated under the command of privateer {{wiki|Henry Jennings}}, who was most notable for attacking Spanish ships salvaging cargo from the [[Spanish Treasure Fleet]] shipwreck site. However, with the Treaty of Utrecht making the life of a privateer unsustainable, Vane sailed for Nassau in 1716.

===Joining the Pirate Republic===
After arriving in [[Nassau]] in 1717, where he and [[Jack Rackham]] informed Edward Kenway of a large prize in a nearby [[Forts|fort]], Vane became a leading member of Nassau's pirate community.

He was present when [[Woodes Rogers]] arrived in Nassau to offer its residents the King's pardon, absolving them of their crimes if they chose to give up piracy. Unlike Benjamin Hornigold, Vane was not keen on accepting the pardon, and worked with Kenway to orchestrate an escape from the barricaded Nassau. Together, they planned to build a fireship with gunpowder to clear the blockade.

While Kenway stole the gunpowder from the British, Vane managed to secure the pine pitch. However, they overheard that Commodore [[Peter Chamberlaine]] intended to disregard Roger's orders and destroy all pirate ships in Nassau's harbors. In order to ensure the success of their plan, Vane suggested that Kenway deal with Chamberlaine.

After Chamberlaine was assassinated, Vane met up with Edward to load the gunpowder aboard Rackham's ship, the ''[[Royal Phoenix]]''. Before they left, Vane violently berated Rackham for smoking a pipe near the gunpowder. The fireship proved to be successful, destroying the ships blockading one of Nassau's harbors, allowing the ''[[Jackdaw]]'' and the ''Ranger'' to escape.

===Mutiny and marooning===
When Edward Thatch announced his retirement from piracy, Vane sailed to North Carolina in a bid to dissuade him, and convince Thatch to help take back Nassau. However, his efforts were in vain and he departed, empty-handed and cursing Thatch.

After Thatch's death at the hands of the British, Vane decided to help Kenway find the [[Observatory]]. The pair tailed the ''[[Royal African Pearl]]'', a [[Slavery|slave]] ship belonging to the [[Royal African Company]], in the hopes of finding information on the [[Sages|Sage]] [[Bartholomew Roberts]]. However, the ''Ranger'' was demasted and left adrift.

Following the ''Royal African Pearl'''s eventual capture, Rackham and the surviving crew mutinied against Vane and Kenway, commandeering the ''Jackdaw'' and marooning both of them on [[Isla Providencia]]. During their time on the island, Vane's behavior became increasingly erratic; he took to hiding in the jungle, only emerging to steal food that Kenway had gathered.

Growing frustrated with Vane's actions, Kenway pursued the man, and Vane fiercely retaliated with an arsenal of recovered weaponry. Despite this, Edward managed to neutralize Vane – but spared him – abandoning the man on the island while he escaped by commandeering a passing fisherman's [[schooner]].

===Imprisonment===
Vane was later found by British soldiers and taken to [[Port Royal]], where he remained for the next two years. Kenway, who was also captured due to Bartholomew Roberts' treachery, managed to escape his gibbet and found the delirious Vane in his cell. Knowing that Vane's state of mind was beyond repair, Kenway left him behind, lamenting how he wished the pair could have parted as friends. Shortly after Edward's escape, Vane was hanged for piracy.

==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
Charles Vane concept art.jpg|Concept art of Charles Vane
AC4_promo_4.jpg|Edward Kenway showing a [[Blood vials|blood vial]] to Vane
The Gunpowder Plot 4.png|Vane and Jack Rackham
We Demand A Parlay 9.png|Vane and Rackham arguing with Benjamin Hornigold
Commodore Eighty-Sixed 4.png|Vane knocking out an accomplice
Vainglorious Bastards 2.png|Vane reminiscing about his father
Vainglorious Bastards 8.png|Vane shooting a Spanish captain
Marooned_1.png|Vane stealing food from Edward
Marooned 4.png|Vane leveling a gun at Edward
Marooned 6.png|Edward standing over the beaten Vane
</gallery>

==Reference==
*''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]''
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Jack Rackham

2014-01-16T02:36:22Z

173.175.29.99: /* Mutiny */

{{Era|AC4}}
{{WP-REAL|Calico Jack}}
{{Spoilerhd}}
{{Quote|Aye. We'll use Rackham's ship. He ain't a capable captain.|[[Charles Vane]] on Jack's captaincy skills, 1718.|Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag}}
{{Character Infobox
|image = Jack Rackham.png
|birth = 27 December 1682 [[Cuba]]
|death = 18 November 1720 (aged 37) [[Port Royal]], [[Kingston]], [[Jamaica]]
|affiliates = [[Nassau|Pirate Republic]]
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]''
|voice = [[O. T. Fagbenle]]
}}
'''Jack Rackham''' (1682 – 1720), more commonly known as '''Calico Jack''', was a [[Jamaica]]n-born [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Piracy|pirate]] who sailed [[Caribbean|West Indies]] from 1715 to 1720.

He was captain of the [[schooner]], ''[[Royal Phoenix]]''.

==History==
===Early years===
In 1682, Jack Rackham was born in [[Port Royal]], Jamaica, at the height of the town's debauched history. As such, Jack aged into a frequent drunk who was rarely serious about anything. It was during these early years that he developed an affinity for Indian and Asian prints, earning him his nickname.

Eventually, the call of piracy proved too strong for Rackham to ignore and he became associated with [[Charles Vane]], an English captain who had served as a privateer in the [[Royal Navy]] during the [[War of Spanish Succession]].

===Life as a pirate===
In 1715 both Charles Vane and Jack Rackham travelled to [[Nassau]] – home of the burgeoning Pirate Republic – to make their living. There they met several other pirates, including some of Vane's former privateering associates; [[Edward Kenway]], [[Edward Thatch]], and [[Benjamin Hornigold]].

A few years later, in 1718 – just after the passing of Edward Thatch – Jack became involved in a plot by Kenway and Vane to breach a British blockade of Nassau, set up after the [[Templars|Templar]], Governor [[Woodes Rogers]], had travelled to the city to reclaim it in the name of the [[Monarchy|Crown]]. Rogers had previously offered the pirate captains and their crews amnesty, if they would give up their pirating and return to Britain; an offer both Vane and Rackham refused.

===Mutiny===
Following their escape from Nassau, which came at the expense of Jack's ship, the ''Kingston'', the three pirate captains agreed to pursue Kenway's fabled [[Observatory]]. They would start by locating a ship of the [[Royal African Company]], which they hoped would lead them to the ''[[Princess]]'', a slave ship carrying [[Bartholomew Roberts]], the only man able to locate the Observatory.

Eventually, they found and engaged the slave ship ''[[Royal African Pearl]]'', but [[Ranger|Vane's vessel]] was devestated in the battle and left adrift. Despite this, Kenway's ''[[Jackdaw]]'' was able to capture the warship, where they learned that the ''Princess'' sailed from Kingston every few months. At that moment, Rackham struck.

In alliance with the ''Ranger''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s crew, Jack mutinied against Vane, apprehending him alongside Kenway and the ''Jackdaw'''s Quartermaster, [[Adéwalé]]. Rackham remarked that he would sell Adéwalé in a local slave market, but that he could take no chances with Kenway or Vane, and so elected to strand them aboard the unseaworthy ''Ranger'' while he claimed the ''Jackdaw'' as his own.

Barely two months had passed before Rackham limped back to Nassau to accept the King's pardon. Upon his arrival he was detained by [[Mary Read|James Kidd]] and Adéwalé, the man he had recently tried to sell into slavery. Not long thereafter, the three travelled to Kenway's [[Great Inagua hideout|Manor]] on [[Inagua|Great Inagua]], where they returned control of the ship to the formerly marooned captain.

===Return to piracy, capture and death===
Despite his actions, Jack was able to continue his life in Nassau. By 1720, he had become involved with [[Anne Bonny]], a married woman who worked at a popular drinking establishment in the settlement. Before long, however, Anne's infidelity was discovered and Jack, unable to buy off Anne's spurned husband, elected to elope with her. Together with James Kidd, now openly acting as Mary Read, Anne and Jack left Nassau and returned to a career as pirates.

At first they did well, capturing a number of small fishing vessels, but within four months of leaving Nassau they were attacked by the Royal Navy. With Jack and his crew passed out from drink, there stood only Anne Bonny, Mary Read and a third man to fight off the Royal Navy. Soon enough, the three were overrun and the vessel captured. Rackham, Bonny and Read were taken to Port Royal, and sentenced to hang for the crime of piracy.

A few weeks after his sentencing, Jack was executed, and his body subsequently placed in a {{Wiki|gibbeting|gibbet}}. The following year he was visited by Edward Kenway who, having escaped his own imprisonment was in the process of assisting in the escape of Mary Read and Anne Bonny. Edward confessed that despite Jack's failings as both a sailor and a friend, it dismayed him to see him in that state.

==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
Concept Art - Jack Rackham.jpg|Concept art of Jack Rackham
AC4-CaribbeanSea JackAndBenjamin.jpg|[[Benjamin Hornigold]], Edward Kenway and Jack Rackham
We Demand A Parlay 9.png|Rackham and Vane arguing with [[Benjamin Hornigold]]
Vainglorious Bastards 9.png|Rackham leading the mutiny against Vane
</gallery>

==Reference==
*''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]''
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[[Category:Cubans]]
[[Category:Pirates]]

Jack Rackham

2014-01-16T02:32:43Z

173.175.29.99: /* Mutiny */

{{Era|AC4}}
{{WP-REAL|Calico Jack}}
{{Spoilerhd}}
{{Quote|Aye. We'll use Rackham's ship. He ain't a capable captain.|[[Charles Vane]] on Jack's captaincy skills, 1718.|Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag}}
{{Character Infobox
|image = Jack Rackham.png
|birth = 27 December 1682 [[Cuba]]
|death = 18 November 1720 (aged 37) [[Port Royal]], [[Kingston]], [[Jamaica]]
|affiliates = [[Nassau|Pirate Republic]]
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]''
|voice = [[O. T. Fagbenle]]
}}
'''Jack Rackham''' (1682 – 1720), more commonly known as '''Calico Jack''', was a [[Jamaica]]n-born [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Piracy|pirate]] who sailed [[Caribbean|West Indies]] from 1715 to 1720.

He was captain of the [[schooner]], ''[[Royal Phoenix]]''.

==History==
===Early years===
In 1682, Jack Rackham was born in [[Port Royal]], Jamaica, at the height of the town's debauched history. As such, Jack aged into a frequent drunk who was rarely serious about anything. It was during these early years that he developed an affinity for Indian and Asian prints, earning him his nickname.

Eventually, the call of piracy proved too strong for Rackham to ignore and he became associated with [[Charles Vane]], an English captain who had served as a privateer in the [[Royal Navy]] during the [[War of Spanish Succession]].

===Life as a pirate===
In 1715 both Charles Vane and Jack Rackham travelled to [[Nassau]] – home of the burgeoning Pirate Republic – to make their living. There they met several other pirates, including some of Vane's former privateering associates; [[Edward Kenway]], [[Edward Thatch]], and [[Benjamin Hornigold]].

A few years later, in 1718 – just after the passing of Edward Thatch – Jack became involved in a plot by Kenway and Vane to breach a British blockade of Nassau, set up after the [[Templars|Templar]], Governor [[Woodes Rogers]], had travelled to the city to reclaim it in the name of the [[Monarchy|Crown]]. Rogers had previously offered the pirate captains and their crews amnesty, if they would give up their pirating and return to Britain; an offer both Vane and Rackham refused.

===Mutiny===
Following their escape from Nassau, which came at the expense of Jack's ship, the ''Kingston'', the three pirate captains agreed to pursue Kenway's fabled [[Observatory]]. They would start by locating a ship of the [[Royal African Company]], which they hoped would lead them to the ''[[Princess]]'', a slave ship carrying [[Bartholomew Roberts]], the only man able to locate the Observatory.

Eventually, they found and engaged the slave ship ''[[Royal African Pearl]]'', but [[Ranger|Vane's vessel]] was demasted in the battle and left adrift. Despite this, Kenway's ''[[Jackdaw]]'' was able to capture the warship, where they learned that the ''Princess'' sailed from Kingston every few months. At that moment, Rackham struck.

In alliance with the ''Ranger''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s crew, Jack mutinied against Vane, apprehending him alongside Kenway and the ''Jackdaw'''s Quartermaster, [[Adéwalé]]. Rackham remarked that he would sell Adéwalé in a local slave market, but that he could take no chances with Kenway or Vane, and so elected to strand them aboard the unseaworthy ''Ranger'' while he claimed the ''Jackdaw'' as his own.

Barely two months had passed before Rackham limped back to Nassau to accept the King's pardon. Upon his arrival he was detained by [[Mary Read|James Kidd]] and Adéwalé, the man he had recently tried to sell into slavery. Not long thereafter, the three travelled to Kenway's [[Great Inagua hideout|Manor]] on [[Inagua|Great Inagua]], where they returned control of the ship to the formerly marooned captain.

===Return to piracy, capture and death===
Despite his actions, Jack was able to continue his life in Nassau. By 1720, he had become involved with [[Anne Bonny]], a married woman who worked at a popular drinking establishment in the settlement. Before long, however, Anne's infidelity was discovered and Jack, unable to buy off Anne's spurned husband, elected to elope with her. Together with James Kidd, now openly acting as Mary Read, Anne and Jack left Nassau and returned to a career as pirates.

At first they did well, capturing a number of small fishing vessels, but within four months of leaving Nassau they were attacked by the Royal Navy. With Jack and his crew passed out from drink, there stood only Anne Bonny, Mary Read and a third man to fight off the Royal Navy. Soon enough, the three were overrun and the vessel captured. Rackham, Bonny and Read were taken to Port Royal, and sentenced to hang for the crime of piracy.

A few weeks after his sentencing, Jack was executed, and his body subsequently placed in a {{Wiki|gibbeting|gibbet}}. The following year he was visited by Edward Kenway who, having escaped his own imprisonment was in the process of assisting in the escape of Mary Read and Anne Bonny. Edward confessed that despite Jack's failings as both a sailor and a friend, it dismayed him to see him in that state.

==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
Concept Art - Jack Rackham.jpg|Concept art of Jack Rackham
AC4-CaribbeanSea JackAndBenjamin.jpg|[[Benjamin Hornigold]], Edward Kenway and Jack Rackham
We Demand A Parlay 9.png|Rackham and Vane arguing with [[Benjamin Hornigold]]
Vainglorious Bastards 9.png|Rackham leading the mutiny against Vane
</gallery>

==Reference==
*''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rackham, Jack}}
{{AC4}}
[[Category:1682 births]]
[[Category:1720 deaths]]
[[Category:Individuals]]
[[Category:Cubans]]
[[Category:Pirates]]