Captain William (Billy One hand) Condon is considered as one the most successful in addition, at the same time most unknown Piraten of its epoch. Even its pre and surname in the sources differently and in different combinations one indicates. (Condent, Congdon, Condell and/or Christopher, Edmond, John, William).

It seems safe that it originates from Plymouth in Massachusetts and looked for like some its contemporaries its welfare in the Piraterie in the Karibik. With the intensified operational readiness level of English warships, like many other Piraten also, Condon with its crew this region left at the beginning of the yearly 1718. Its ship was the good-armed "Dragon", a Slup (Schaluppe) with which it in March before the Cape Verdian islands more than twenty ships applies. The raid by the Atlantic goes further southward, before the South American coast. Later in the autumn of the same yearly one crosses the Atlantic over before the South West African coast several ships too kapern, among them also a Dutch 42-Kanonen-Schiff, which in the future under the name "Fiery Dragon" becomes Condons main ship.

With a crew of 320 men, good-arms and experiences, makes themselves the "Fiery Dragon" on the way to the cape of good hope and pushes thereby for lucrative booty: the "Maison d'Autriche", of China coming on the way after east end, becomes single their 400 tons of charge, among them valuable porcelain. After a further Segler of the eastIndian company of the "Fiery Dragon" falls to the victim, Condon, course Madagascar decides to sails, more exactly to the island pc. Marie, which is at this time slip angle and recruiting place for many Piraten.

In the August of the yearly 1720 the "Fiery Dragon" segelt before the west coast of India and applies in close proximity to Bombay a Pilgerschiff on the way after Surat in Indonesia. The prize is considered as the most valuable, which was ever captured of a pirate ship, today's course several million euro. Converted in the October of the same yearly after pc. Marie will become brought, spices and silk with dealers into Spiritosen, gun powders and ship equipment, the objects of value and coins will become fairly divided the booty.

Since the English eastIndian company under the Piratenangriffen in this region suffered predominantly, Condon were and its men soon on the black list of this society. The French crown were naturally quite these encroachments, France was in the war with England. The "support" for the Piraten went even so far that the French governor of the island Bourbon (today offered amnesty, against payment of an appropriate financial return. William Condon and some its men name this opportunity truely and will step out of the Condon pulled it to Europe, where he itself in normandy as if enrich man established.

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