Baron Maurice de Bentowski, also known as the Count Maurycy Beniowski, was a native of Poland, born into nobility. At the time of his birth Poland was occupied, in part, by Russia. Beniowski became involved in the struggle to rid his country of these Russians and during this time he was taken captive.

Sent to the mines in Serbia, he somehow managed to escape and then went on to establish a stronghold in what is now known as Madagascar.

Beniowski appears here as a pirate because it was well known that he would attack any and all shipping around his base if Madagascar, the land over which he had by then pronounced himself king of.

Considering himself head of a nation state, Beniowski answered to no-one and obeyed no flag but his own. Though his legacy in Madagascar was not that strong, Maurycy Beniowski was well remembered in the region with a nearby island naming themselves Mauritius in his honour.

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