When people think of pirates, they think of Blackbeard or Captain Morgan, but the most powerful pirate to ever live was a chinese woman named Ching Shih.
She was a former sex worker who married a pirate captain in the early 1800s. When he died, she took over his fleet and grew it into an armada of over 300 ships and 40,000 pirates. She ruled with absolute discipline, executing anyone who disobeyed orders or mistreated prisoners. She became so powerful that the chinese military, the british navy, and the portuguese navy combined forces to stop her and still lost. Eventually, the chinese government gave up and offered her amnesty. She got to retire peacefully, keep all her wealth, and opened a successful gambling house.
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