Question: When did an English pirate who operated in the Atlantic and Indian oceans in the mid-1690s command Fancy?
Context: James Gilliam, also known as James Kelly, (died July 12, 1701) was an English pirate active in the Indian Ocean during the 1690s and was a longtime associate of Captain William Kidd.  Prior to his association with Kidd, he sailed with George Raynor and Edward Davis aboard the "Batchelor's Delight."  One of Kidd's earliest crew members, Gilliam was a participant in the mutiny on board the "Mocha" and the subsequent murder of Captain Edgecomb who was killed in his sleep.  After taking command of the East Indiaman, Gilliam and the "Mocha", under successive Captains Ralph Stout and Robert Culliford, assisted in the capture of several ships in the Indian Ocean.  Gilliam was arrested after returning to New England with Kidd in 1699.  Transported to Great Britain, he was tried at the Old Bailey and found guilty of piracy.  While in prison, he wrote "A full and true Discovery of all the Robberies, Pyracies, and other Notorious Actions, of that Famous English Pyrate, Capt. James Kelly" which included references to the as yet undiscovered Galapagos Islands before his eventual execution on July 12, 1701. Adventure Galley, also known as Adventure, was an English sailing ship captained by William Kidd, the notorious privateer.  She was a type of hybrid ship that combined square rigged sails with oars to give her manoeuvrability in both windy and calm conditions.  The vessel was launched at the end of 1695 and was acquired by Kidd the following year to serve in his privateering venture.  Between April 1696 and April 1698, she travelled thousands of miles across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans in search of pirates but failed to find any until nearly the end of her travels.  Instead, Kidd himself turned pirate in desperation at not having obtained any prizes.  "Adventure Galley" succeeded in capturing two vessels off India and brought them back to Madagascar, but by the spring of 1698 the ship's hull had become so rotten and leaky that she was no longer seaworthy.  She was stripped of anything movable and sunk off the north-eastern coast of Madagascar.  Her remains have not yet been located. John Phillips (died April 18, 1724) was an English pirate captain.  He started his piratical career in 1721 under Thomas Anstis, and stole his own pirate vessel in 1723.  He died in a surprise attack by his own prisoners.  He is noted for the articles of his ship, the "Revenge", one of only four complete sets of pirate articles to survive from the so-called Golden Age of Piracy. The white-tailed tropicbird "(Phaethon lepturus)" is a tropicbird, smallest of three closely related seabirds of the tropical oceans and smallest member of the order Phaethontiformes.  It occurs in the tropical Atlantic, western Pacific and Indian Oceans.  It also breeds on some Caribbean islands, and a few pairs have started nesting recently on Little Tobago, joining the red-billed tropicbird colony.  In addition to the tropical Atlantic, it nests as far north as Bermuda, where it is locally called a "longtail". Edward Teach or Edward Thatch (c. 1680 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies.  Although little is known about his early life, he was probably born in Bristol, England.  Recent genealogical research indicates his family moved to Jamaica where Edward Thatch, Jr. is listed as being a mariner in the Royal Navy aboard HMS "Windsor" in 1706.  He may have been a sailor on privateer ships during Queen Anne's War before settling on the Bahamian island of New Providence, a base for Captain Benjamin Hornigold, whose crew Teach joined sometime around 1716.  Hornigold placed him in command of a sloop he had captured, and the two engaged in numerous acts of piracy.  Their numbers were boosted by the addition to their fleet of two more ships, one of which was commanded by Stede Bonnet, but toward the end of 1717 Hornigold retired from piracy, taking two vessels with him. Fancy was Henry Every's ship, and was commanded by him between May 1694 to late 1695, when he retired from piracy and the fate of "Fancy" becomes unknown. The red-billed tropicbird ("Phaethon aethereus") is a tropicbird, one of three closely related species of seabird of tropical oceans.  Superficially resembling a tern in appearance, it has mostly white plumage with some black markings on the wings and back, a black mask and, as its common name suggests, a red bill.  Most adults have <dfn id="">tail streamers</dfn> that are about two times their body length, with those in males being generally longer than those in females.  The red-billed tropicbird itself has three subspecies recognized, including the nominate.  The subspecies "mesonauta" is distinguished from the nominate by the rosy tinge of its fresh plumage, and the subspecies "indicus" can be differentiated by its smaller size, more restricted mask, and more orange bill.  This species ranges across the tropical Atlantic, eastern Pacific, and Indian Oceans.  The nominate is found in the southern Atlantic Ocean, the subspecies "indicus" in the waters off of the Middle East and in the Indian Ocean, and the subspecies "mesonauta" in the eastern portions of both the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans and in the Caribbean.  It was one of the many species described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of "Systema Naturae". John Halsey (c. 1662-1708) was a colonial American privateer and a later pirate who was active in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans during the early 18th century.  Although much of his life and career is unknown, he is recorded in "A General History of the Pyrates" which states ""He was brave in his Person, courteous to all his Prisoners, lived beloved, and died regretted by his own People.  His Grave was made in a garden of watermelons, and fenced in with Palisades to prevent his being rooted up by wild Hogs."" Henry Avery, also Evory or Every, (23 August 1659 – 1699) sometimes erroneously given as John Avery, was an English pirate who operated in the Atlantic and Indian oceans in the mid-1690s.  He probably used several aliases throughout his career, including Benjamin Bridgeman, and was known as Long Ben to his crewmen and associates. The Suez Canal (Arabic: قناة السويس‎ ‎ "qanāt as-suwēs ") is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez.  Constructed by the Suez Canal Company between 1859 and 1869, it was officially opened on November 17, 1869.  The canal offers watercraft a shorter journey between the North Atlantic and northern Indian Oceans via the Mediterranean and Red seas by avoiding the South Atlantic and southern Indian oceans, in turn reducing the journey by approximately 7000 km .  It extends from the northern terminus of Port Said to the southern terminus of Port Tewfik at the city of Suez.  Its length is 193.30 km , including its northern and southern access channels.  In 2012, 17,225 vessels traversed the canal (47 per day).
Answer: May 1694 to late 1695