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Henry Morgan
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Captain Henry
Morgan
1635-1688
Homeland
1635
- Henry Morgan was born in Wales
- Taken as an indentured servant (slave) to West Indies
- Labored on a plantation in Barbadoes
Break-out of the second Anglo-Spanish War
1654
19 year old Henry Morgan was released from the plantation to fight in the War
Jamaica Taken by Brittish
1655
- Jamaica was taken by the British and turned into a base for privateers (pirates).
- As a free man, went to Jamaica, became a pirate and bought a ship.
Attack of Port-au-Prince (Haiti)
1664
- Captain Morgan and his crew raided the port of all the gold and spices they could find.
- The governor of Panama, Don Juan Perez de Guzman, dispatched a force of 520 men in four ships in effort to retake the island.
Morgans Rampage
- By 1668, his power was sufficient enough to assemble 12 ships and 700 men, both British and French, for the raiding of the Cuban town of Puerto del Principe (now called Camagüey).
- The raid yielded a profitable 50,000 pieces of eight ($15 Million).
1668
Sacked Maracaibo, Venezuela, and escaped a Spanish trap
- In 1668, he sailed for Maracaibo and Gibraltar, both on Lake Maracaibo in modern-day Venezuela.
- He raided both cities and stripped them of their wealth before destroying a large Spanish squadron (army) as he escaped.
1669
Raid of Panama City
- In August 1670, with 36 ships and nearly 2,000 buccaneers, Morgan set out to capture Panama, one of the major cities of Spain's American empire.
- Crossing the peninsula of Panama, he defeated a large Spanish force on January 18, 1671, and entered the city, which burned to the ground while his men were looting it.
1670-1671
Morgan Arrested
- To appease the Spanish, the English signed a peace treaty, Morgan was arrested and summoned to London in 1672,
- He was treated as a hero by the general population and the leading figures of government and royalty including Charles II.
1672
Appointed by the King
- Morgan was appointed a Knight in November 1674 and returned to the Colony of Jamaica shortly afterward to serve as the territory's Lieutenant Governor.
- He served on the Assembly of Jamaica until 1683 and on three occasions he acted as Governor of Jamaica in the absence of the current post-holder.
1674
Death
- His life was glamorized after his death on August 25, 1688
- He became the inspiration for pirate-themed works of fiction across a range of genres.[2]
1688
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