Samuel Bellamy | |
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Born |
ca. February 23, 1689 |
Died | April 26, 1717 | (aged 28)
Piratical career | |
Nickname | "Black Sam" Bellamy, "Prince of Pirates" |
Type | Pirate |
Commands | Postillion, Mary Anne, Sultana, Whydah Gally |
Wealth | Equiv. US$169.8 million in 2023; [1] #1 Forbes top-earning pirates [2] |
In 2008,
Forbes Magazine published a listing of the
top 20 highest-earning pirates of all time. This information can be used to populate the |wealth=
Infobox parameter in the Wikipedia articles for each of these 20 pirates. This template ensures that the information is presented accurately and consistently for each.
|wealth=
{{Pirate wealth | earnings | earnings_rank }}
Forbes listed Samuel Bellamy as the highest-earning pirate, ranked #1 after having earned $120 million (in 2008 dollars). This would be coded as:
|wealth = {{Pirate wealth|120|1}}
This appears in the following code, which produces the infobox at the top of this page, including the two reference footnotes shown at the bottom of this page. Note that the earnings displayed in the infobox above was automatically adjusted to $169.8 million in today's dollars.
{{Infobox pirate
|name= Samuel Bellamy
|birth_date=[[Wiktionary:circa|ca.]] {{Birth date|1689|2|23|mf=yes}}
|death_date= {{Death-date and age|April 26, 1717|February 23, 1689}}
|nickname= "Black Sam" Bellamy,<br/>"Prince of Pirates"
|type= [[Pirate]]
|birth_place = {{flagicon|England}} [[Hittisleigh]], [[Devon]], [[England]]
|death_place = [[Wellfleet, Massachusetts]]
|commands= ''Postillion'', ''Mary Anne'', ''Sultana'', ''[[Whydah Gally]]''
|wealth = {{Pirate wealth|120|1}}
}}
Should one desire to re-use the Forbes citation elsewhere in the article text, they may do so with one of these two techniques:
<ref name="ForbesRank"/>
– The ref name must be "ForbesRank"; it produces the footnote at the end of this sentence.
[2]{{sfnp|Woolsey|2008}}
– Such a Harvard-style shortened footnote appears at the end of this sentence.
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