Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

The Louisiana Pirate Festival is getting underway in Lake Charles, which is as good a reason as any to talk about two of the most remarkable stories in pirate history: Cheng I Sao, a Chinese pirate queen who commanded 400 ships and 70,000 men and never lost a battle; and Ireland's Grace O’Malley, who, as the story is sometimes told, gave birth to one of her four children - and then, just hours later, grabbed her gun and successfully drove off a group of raiders.  Louisiana Pirate Festival   Cheng I Sao, Female Pirate Extraordinaire (JStor Daily)  Grace O'Malley: 12 fascinating facts about Ireland's fearless Pirate Queen (Irish Post) Back Cool Weird Awesome on Patreon! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message