Given the question: Facts: - death place: london - battles: war of the spanish succession - death date: december 5 , 1715 - allegiance: france -lrb- ? -1712 - nickname: '' '' ' nique ta mere '' '' '' - birth date: c. 1662 - name: alexander dalzeel - birth place: port patrick , scotland - rank: captain Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of alexander dalzeel .
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alexander dalzeel -lrb- c. 1662 -- december 5 , 1715 -rrb- was a seventeenth-century pirate and former officer under henry avery .born in port patrick , scotland , dalzeel went to sea as a child and , by the age of 23 , was captain of his own ship with six successful voyages to his credit .earning a reputation for dishonesty , dalzeel arrived in madagascar in 1685 and soon enlisted into the ranks of captain avery .according to pirate lore , dalzeel participated in the capture of the treasure ship '' ganj-i-sawai '' , which carried the great mogul 's daughter to her arranged marriage .avery , who had decided to take her as his own wife , gave dalzeel his own ship and crew within avery 's fleet .dalzeel would continue to serve under avery until finally leaving for the west indies on his own .however , upon their arrival in the caribbean , the pirates ' search for targets was fruitless .with their supplies slowly running short , starvation began to set in before a spanish vessel was sighted .as the ship came into view , dalzeel realized the spanish ship was a well-armed spanish war galleon which had presumably become separated from its escorts .despite their ship 's smaller size , dalzeel gave orders to close in on the ship .although the spanish ship 's captain had been informed of the pirate ship 's presence earlier , he felt it too small to be a threat and retired to his cabin for a game of cards .as the ship approached the galleon , dalzeel ordered a hole to be drilled in the side of his own ship so that his crew would be forced to fight to the death .caught completely off guard , the spaniards offered little resistance as dalzeel 's crew boarded the galleon .within minutes the ship was theirs and , storming into the captain 's quarters , they demanded his surrender at gunpoint .after sailing his prize to jamaica , dalzeel was apprehended while attempting to capture a fleet of twelve spanish pearl ships escorted by a spanish man-o-war .in exchange for his surrender , dalzeel and his crew were...