"Seeing great potential in the Indian fleet, Henry Every and five other pirate captains conspire to attack the convoy heading to Mocha and loot the treasure ship Ganj-i-Sawai. One by one, they pick off parts of the Indian fleet with ease until they reach the Ganj-i-Sawai and its escort, defeating and taking up to £600,000.00 GBP in gold and silver – the biggest haul ever seized by pirates. Naturally, the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb is not happy. He blames the British for their countrymen's actions and holds the EIC personally responsible. Four of the company's factories are attacked and taken by the emperor. So, to mollify the ruler, a £1,000.00 GBP bounty is placed on Every's head and he is made exempt from any possible royal pardon or amnesty.
English mutineer and pirate, last seen at New Providence in the Bahamas. Every—whose name has sometimes been erroneously rendered as ‘‘John Avery,'' or even ‘‘Long Ben''—was apparently born to John and Anne ‘‘Evarie'' in the village of Newton Ferrers, a few miles southeast of Plymouth, England, in August 1659.
The details of his early career are unknown, until he enters the books of the 64-gun HMS Rupert as an experienced mid- shipman under Captain Francis Wheeler in March 1689. In all likelihood, Every must have taken part in the capture of a large French convoy off Brest that summer, the first year of the War of the League of Augsburg or King William's War, and at the end of July was promoted as chief mate to Rupert's sailing master. In June 1690, Every transferred to HMS Albemarle of 90 guns when Wheeler became its commander, doubtless seeing action in the disastrous Battle of Beachy Head two weeks later. In August of that same year, Every was discharged from the Royal Navy…"
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