Sir Henry Morgan

-

Henry Morgan was a Buc
anneer who was not shy about plundering and pillaging to make a profit. after many successful raids he was a very wealthy man who bought a plantain in Jamacia and became a husband to his cousin Elizabeth henry. he was well respected by many people in his time. he was made a kings men and was made lieutenant governor of Jamacia. he was widely known as an ambitious and lively person.
His most notable accomplishment was his capture of panama
in his privateer days. Which permission from the king
he and his men set out to capture panama and steal their ships.
When they arrived in Panama they met up with some of the Spanish and when it looked like they would
have been severely outnumbered Henry Morgan did not let that bring him down. Even though the ratio
of his men to the Spanish was significantly different Henry's crew had far better weapons and much more
experience. Leading them to a notorious victory.
As they were making their way through the town
taking everything of value and burning the rest
to the ground they were secretly keeping most
of the loot for themselves. Because they were
privateers they had to return most of what they
stole to the king because he was the one that
sent them out on the raid.

 Henry Morgan was very successful unfortunately
not all of his stories were true some were made
up to improve his legacy making it seem better
then it actually was. 

 There were stories about him leaving his home very early on with no money because he did not want
to work with his father which quickly led him to a life of piracy because he had no money or experience
to make any. These stories were more fictitious than true which made his legacy greater than it actually
was.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Myth Busters

-
Image
When you think of pirates you think of buried treasure and pirate ships and someone in an eye patch wearing an eyepatch. This was what the movie made the pirates look like when in real life they were not like that at all. They were very harsh to prisoners and were not as much worried about burying their treasure as they were having it on board or wearing it.  When reading Under The Black Flag by David Cordingly he talks about how some pirates would keep their prisoners in very tight quarters with not enough room to even lay down and bring them about for them to be beaten and abused by him or the members of his crew. When they were done with the prisoners they are often cut into pieces and thrown overboard. This came as a shock to me that pirates were actually this cruel to people.Now this is a very different story from what Disney and the others have made pirates out to be. They were much more harsh and aggressive with people them most would think. These true facts were covered up
Read more

Common myths about pirates

-
Image
When you think about pirates you often think about they way they are represented in movies or children's book. Unfortunately a lot of the information is not real. One of the most common myths about pirates is that they made their victims walk that plank. This was in fact a rare for of execution in the 18th and 19th century. Some other common ones were that they buried their treasure so no one else could find it, that they wore eyepatches and had peg legs . There is so much real things about pirates that got overlooked by the myths they have been portrayed in famous movies and books that most people today don't know what real life pirates actually did and did not do.
Read more