High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Laurens Cornelis Boudewijn de Graaf (ca. 1653, Dordrecht, Dutch Republic - probably 24 May 1704, Cap-Fran ais, Saint-Domingue, alias Laurencillo/Lorencillo El Griffe (Spanish); Sieur de Baldran, alias de Graff (French); or Gesel van de West (Dutch "Scourge of the West"), was a Dutch pirate, mercenary, and naval officer in the service of the French colony of Saint-Domingue during the late 17th and early 18th...