About: Colonel Plug

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Colonel Plug (1700s? – 1820?), also known as Colonel Fluger and "The Last of the Boat-Wreckers", who existed sometime between the 1790s and 1820, was the legendary river pirate who ran a criminal gang on the Ohio River in a cypress swamp near the mouth of the Cache River. The outlaw camp of Colonel Plug was supposedly below the river pirate hideout of Cave-In-Rock and the U.S. Army post at Fort Massac, which monitored and policed frontier river traffic just above the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

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  • Colonel Plug (1700s? – 1820?), also known as Colonel Fluger and "The Last of the Boat-Wreckers", who existed sometime between the 1790s and 1820, was the legendary river pirate who ran a criminal gang on the Ohio River in a cypress swamp near the mouth of the Cache River. The outlaw camp of Colonel Plug was supposedly below the river pirate hideout of Cave-In-Rock and the U.S. Army post at Fort Massac, which monitored and policed frontier river traffic just above the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. (en)
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  • Colonel Fluger, Colonel Flueger, Colonel Pflueger, Col. Plug, Last of the Boat-wreckers (en)
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  • 1820-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • Rockingham County, New Hampshire, US (en)
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  • Colonel Plug and his gang of river pirates patrolled the Cache River cypress swamp, of Southern Illinois, near the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, hunting down helpless and unsuspecting river travelers, to attack, rob, and murder, between the 1790s–1820. (en)
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  • river piracy, theft, fencing stolen goods, murder (en)
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  • 1820 (xsd:integer)
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  • Cache River, present-day Pulaski County, Illinois? (en)
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  • European-American, African-American (en)
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  • Colonel Plug, Nine-Eyes (en)
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  • Cache River, at the confluence of the Ohio River, just above the Mississippi River, in Southern Illinois (en)
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  • ? (en)
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  • Cache River Pirates (en)
  • Colonel Plug (en)
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  • American (en)
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  • river pirate, criminal gang leader, state militia officer (en)
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  • Colonel Fluger, Colonel Flueger, Colonel Pflueger, Col. Plug, Last of the Boat-wreckers (en)
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  • Cache River, present-day Pulaski County, Illinois? (en)
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  • Pluggy (en)
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  • Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, Southern Illinois, Western Kentucky (en)
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  • 1790 (xsd:integer)
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  • Colonel Plug (1700s? – 1820?), also known as Colonel Fluger and "The Last of the Boat-Wreckers", who existed sometime between the 1790s and 1820, was the legendary river pirate who ran a criminal gang on the Ohio River in a cypress swamp near the mouth of the Cache River. The outlaw camp of Colonel Plug was supposedly below the river pirate hideout of Cave-In-Rock and the U.S. Army post at Fort Massac, which monitored and policed frontier river traffic just above the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. (en)
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  • Colonel Plug (en)
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  • Colonel Plug (en)
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