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historical existence

About the historical existence of the captain Flint : I have not been able to find anything about this Whitehead. I suppose that the book he wrote was written in English, but I translated the french title, which is : Vie des voleurs et des pirates anglais. The original title may have been different.
The reference for this note is : Pierre Mac Orlan, A Bord de L'Etoile Matutine, Gallimard, coll. folio, Paris, 1983, p. 208 (book in french).
Sorry for my approximate english.

--Loudon dodd 22:44, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the note, which read:

French author Pierre Mac Orlan, in his introduction for a 1921 French translation of Captain Johnson's General History of the pyrates (Pierre Mac Orlan, A Bord de L'Etoile Matutine, Gallimard, coll. folio, Paris, 1983, p. 208 (French language)) says that Flint is mentioned by a certain M[onsieur] C. Whitehead in his Vie des voleurs et pirates anglais -- presumably referring to the Lives and exploits of English Highwaymen, Pirates, and Robbers, by Charles Whitehead (1834), translated in 1835 into French as Vies et exploits des voleurs de grands chemins, pirates et brigands anglais; the portion of the Lives and exploits dealing with pirates is a retelling of certain chapters from Captain Charles Johnson's book A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates (1724). In neither book is any reference to a person named Flint to be found.

IMHO the fact that an introduction to a French translation of an English book says that Flint is mentioned in a different English book is highly irrelevant, the more so when this claim is wrong. --Thrissel (talk) 18:17, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Skeleton Island

In the book, Skeleton Island is a smaller island on Flint's map; it is to the south-east of Treasure Island from which it is separated by a narrow channel. It is not the site of any of Flint's treasure. 194.221.133.226 14:00, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Billy bones is captain flint

I'm not going to vandalize the article... so I'll say it here.

According to Jesse Kohen (treasure island expert) Billy Bones is Captain Flint, and the Hispaniola, or The Ship is is stolen (according to Michael Wiesenfeld (treasure island master).

I liked very much their ideas! Could you tell more about it? Or, what's the font of your research? :D --189.102.236.25 (talk) 04:40, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A line that makes little sense to me

working in partnership with the decidedly not idealistic Captain Flint, who in 's (1934) captures from a Spanish galleon -

This line from the article on Captain Flint does not start with a capital letter and does not make sense. I don't feel qualified to edit it because it makes so little sense.

Bananabean (talk) 18:14, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think I have sorted it out and cleaned it up a bit. Dabbler (talk) 19:04, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The character appears in one more novel

This time by Robert Margerit, entitled "L'Île des perroquets" (1942). I don't know if there is an English translation, but I suppose not. The Walrus also appears as Flint's ship. -JAWS —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.63.222.79 (talk) 23:27, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Black Sails

He is in Black Sails TV-series black-sails.wikia.com/wiki/James_Flint 85.23.206.44 (talk) 19:51, 20 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Flint in Peter Pan

Is there any evidence that this was intended to be the same Flint used in Treasure Island. If not, should this be removed, or moved to it's own section? Killer Moff (talk) 11:21, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

See this reference from a book called Barrie, Hook, and Peter Pan: Studies in Contemporary Myth

Illustration

Since this article is about Captain Flint, why is the only illustration of Long John Silver? Anyone have a PD/CC picture of Flint? D Anthony Patriarche (talk) 18:35, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]