Henry Every was a real pirate, one of the most succesful in the world, and he retired to a nice island.<br/><br/>The most succesful pirate ever, Cheng I sao. (A woman by the way, and by all accounts as beautiful as she was dreaded) dissapeared and is rumoured to have retired to an unknown location.<br/><br/>An inspirational quote about her:<br/>"In the height of her power, former prostitute controlled more than 1,500 ships and had the manpower of 80,000 sailors which was one of the biggest naval armies in the history of the world. This female pirate captain used her super large army for robbing and taxing towns and plundering ships throughout the coast of the South China Sea."