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The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.1. But he must have been a charismatic figure, chosen by a group of pirates as their leader over another captain with long experience of raiding in the Indian Ocean.2. He was last seen setting out alone, after landing with his remaining shipmates on the north-east coast of Ireland.3. Henry Every remains a phantom—his birth, possibly in Devon, remains obscure, and we don’t know when or how he died.4. Since he never boarded the Gunsway himself, he is presented as an almost gentlemanly figure — above the fray, but powerless to stop the violence he had unleashed.

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The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.1. But he must have been a charismatic figure, chosen by a group of pirates as their leader over another captain with long experience of raiding in the Indian Ocean.2. He was last seen setting out alone, after landing with his remaining shipmates on the north-east coast of Ireland.3. Henry Every remains a phantom—his birth, possibly in Devon, remains obscure, and we don’t know when or how he died.4. Since he never boarded the Gunsway himself, he is presented as an almost gentlemanly figure — above the fray, but powerless to stop the violence he had unleashed.

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The correct sequence of the sentences to form a coherent paragraph would be 3, 1, 4, 2.

This sequence starts with an introduction of Henry Every as a mysterious figure (sentence 3), then moves on to describe his leadership among pirates (sentence 1), his gentlemanly demeanor (sentence 4), and finally his last known whereabouts (sentence 2).

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