What nationality was the pirate Captain Kidd
William Kidd The book portrays Kidd as an innocent privateer who was framed by corrupt officials as a scapegoat for their own crimes. The heavy metal band Running Wild’s song, Ballad of William Kidd. The band Scissorfight honored William Kidd on the album Balls Deep; The Gibbeted Captain Kidd. William Kidd William Kidd, also Captain William Kidd or simply Captain Kidd (c. 1654 – 23 May 1701), was a Scottish sailor who was tried and executed for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean. Some modern historians, for example Sir Cornelius Neale Dalton (see Books), deem his piratical reputation
Kidd the Pirate Kidd the Pirate "Kidd the Pirate" is a short story by American author Washington Irving, based on legends of Captain William Kidd. The story was published in "Tales of a Traveller", an 1824 collection of Irving's writings, where it immediately precedes that work's most famous story "The Devil and Tom Walker", which also involves Kidd's treasure. The story begins "In old times, just after the territory of the New Netherlands had been wrested from the hands of their High Mightinesses, the Lords State-General of Holland by Charles the Second". This "unquiet state" is said to have led to an increase