Jacquotte Delahaye nicknamed "Back From the Dead Red" was a pirate in which of the following seas?
Jacquotte Delahaye (fl. 1656), was a purported pirate of legend in the Caribbean sea. She has been depicted as operating alongside Anne Dieu-le-Veut, as one of very few 17th-century female pirates. There is no evidence from period sources that Delahaye was a real person. Stories of her exploits are attributed to oral storytelling and Leon Treich, a French fiction writer of the 1940s.
Delahaye reportedly came from Saint-Domingue in modern Haiti, and was the daughter of a French father and a Haitian mother, and spoke French. Her mother is said to have died while giving birth to her brother, who suffered mild mental disability, and was left in her care after her father's death. According to legend and tradition, she became a pirate after the murder of her father.
Jacquotte was a war hero and to escape her pursuers she faked her own death and took on a nom de guerre in the form of a male alias, living as a man for many years. Upon her return, she became known as "Back From the Dead Red" because of her striking red hair.
She led a gang of hundreds of pirates, and with their help took over Tortuga (Haiti) a small Caribbean island in the year of 1656, which was called a "freebooter republic". Several years later, she died in a shoot-out while defending it.
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