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William Dampier, seventeenth century pirate
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Unlucky Pirate who became a Best-seller
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Peter Pan by J M Barrie
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Ruffian Cowboys Shooting from Window
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Unidentified boy with gun helps another boy attacked by ruffians
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The doctor indulged with his favourite scene, 1790
Forth sprang the ambush'd ruffians on their prey'. From the poem: 'The West Indies, a poem'. By James Montgomery.
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Chushingura Series, Act III, Kampei Chases a Group of Ruffians Away from Okaru before the Shogun's Palace, mid 1840s (woodblock print)
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LIBERTY. THE FAIR MAID OF KANSAS IN THE HANDS OF THE 'BORDER RUFFIANS', by J. L. Magee, 1856. Against a scene of war and murder, prominent politicians, Buchanan, Pierce, and Cass, are portrayed 'border ruffians'. At right, Stephen Douglas, the advocate of 'popular sovereignty, has been scalped. The background are scenes of invasion and murder of 'Bleeding Kansas'
French Liberty, Nixon, John, -1818, Artist, [1793 July], on the Right Liberty is Torn from Her Temple by a Hired Band of Ruffians Bound & Going to Be Sacrificed to the Rage of These Ignorant People; ... And on the Left, Artists and Artisans, a Mother with Two Children, and Others Are Driven Away by Booted Thugs with Clubs, at Center a Spinning Wheel Burns, a Boy Adds a Book Fine Arts to the Fire, and an Old Man Breaks in Half the Staff of Liberty. Additional Scenes of Merriment and Chaos Take Place in the Background.
Two Border Ruffians, pro-slavery activists from Missouri, posing with swords. They were among thousands of Missourians who entered Kansas Territory between 1854 and 1860 to promote slavery
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The Maris des Cygnes Massacre, Kansas, May 19, 1858. About 30 Missouri border ruffians led by Charles Hamilton, a Georgian native and proslavery leader, captured 11 Kansas Free-Staters, five of whom they shot to death. Hamilton ordered the killing and fired the first bullet, but was never brought to justice. William Griffith was prosecuted and hung in 1863
Pro-slavery insurgents traveling into Kansas for election day, March 30, 1855. 5,000 'Border Ruffians' entered Kansas to seize control of polling places at gunpoint. They cast tens of thousands of fraudulent votes for pro-slavery candidates, to elect a pro-slavery legislature. When the Federal government failed to intervene, the free-soilers fought back, and 'Kansas War' began
Illustration from a book depicting how the Duke of Bedford lost his Christmas dinner
The princes murdered in the Tower of London, 1483.  1836 (engraving)
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Sir James Tyrrell disposing of the princes' corpses in the Tower 1836 (engraving)
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