Uncovering the Truth of Pirates

Henry Morgan's most notable accomplishment was the capture of Panama, which at the time was the capital of Spanish settlement in the new world. So in August of 1670, Morgan set sail with thirty-six ships and over two thousand men in hopes of capturing the city.  Henry Morgan  Henry Morgan was a Welsh privateer who is one of the most notorious pirates of his period. There are many different truths and myths about Morgan, born in 1635. This is due to not much of his adventures being recorded first-hand by anyone. Morgan was contracted by the English crown to be a Privateer. A Privateer is a sailor who sails the seas with permission from the government (in this case, the King) to steal from ships from another country (in this case, the Spanish). Much of what is known about Henry Morgan was recorded first hand by the surgeon and barber one of his ships named Alexandre Exquemelin. Exquemelin recorded his time spent on the high seas with Captain Morgan, and it has become...

The seafaring Pirates of the Caribbean relied on various different ports within the Spanish Main to plunder for treasure. However, because of this, these ports became heavily guarded fortress’ so that the pirates can’t plunder them. This was because many of these ports became gold deposits where trains left gold that had been mined for transport back to Europe. The most notable of these ports include the likes of Darien, Portobello (both located in the area of present day Panama) and Cartagena (located in present day Venezuela). For many of the Pirate, attacking these ports was an absolutely terrible idea, because of how well guarded they were. Of course, they still did attack these fortress’ as many would happily risk their lives to steal from the Spanish. It was not a secret in which how these ports were guarded. The shores were protected by large cannons, that were so big that a majority of ships weren’t prepared enough to match them. As well as if pirates were out of r...