William Burke aided which Scottish sailor who was tried and executed for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean?
William Burke (pirate) William Burke (d. 1699, first name occasionally Thomas, last name occasionally Burk, Burt, Bourck, Burch, or Burcke) was an Irish pirate and trader active in the Caribbean and near Newfoundland, best known for aiding William Kidd.
Nathaniel Carver Captain Nathaniel Carver (24 September 1740 – 1 May 1815) was a prosperous merchant of British America. Near the end of the American Revolutionary War, he was captured by a British naval frigate, "HMS Albemarle", commanded by Horatio Nelson, whom he later assisted in escaping a superior French force.