Sir Henry Morgan

  



      Sir Henry Morgan was a buccaneer, but also known as a hero in Jamaica. From the beginning, Jamaica paid his way through all of his raids and attacks against different Spanish towns. After a while, his success started to aggravate the Spanish. Spain then created a treaty with the British and said that there would be no more raids on them. However, Sir Henry Morgan was never one for the rules. He did what he want when he wanted and how he wanted.
     The buccaneers started to run out of money from their other voyages, so Sir Morgan led them on the Panama expedition. On January 28, 1671, Morgan reached Panama and secured the high ground early. With a devastating loss for Spain, they rushed off with what remaining fortunes they had and attempted to burn the city down to ensure that Morgan would not be able to occupy them. Spain was very successful in their attempts, but Morgan and his men still celebrated their win. They had only lost 15 men in the action, and even though the city had been burned down, they were able to find hidden money by the end of February and were able to head home. They brought home 175 mules loaded with silver and 600 prisoners. When they divided their winnings between them all, Morgan's men were very unhappy with him. Suspecting him of cheating them out of what they earned.
     To some of his men he was cruel, but when he made it home to Jamaica he was praised. That praise was short lived as news traveled to Spain. The Spanish said that his attack on Panama violated their peace treaty. However, his only real punishment after all he did was to live in England under house arrest for two years where he was still free to do what he liked.
     After all the death and destruction he left behind, two years of house arrest seems like a light sentence, do you agree?


http://todayinbritishhistory.com/2014/01/henry-morgan-sack-of-panama-city-28-january-1671/

Cordingly, David. "Sir Henry Morgan." Under The Black Flag. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006. Print.

Christopher Columbus pirated the ocean blue?

It is no surprise that Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue, but pirated is a whole different perspective. In Buccaneers and Pirates, Frank Stockton spoke about how Christopher was actually the first to practice piracy in American waters. We all know Christopher sailed and supposedly discovered all this new land, but what the history books failed to mention was the amount he robbed and murdered to get the land and treasures he had acquired on his journey. He "enslaved and exterminated" all of the natives in the lands he journeyed through. The story Frank painted of Christopher's journey matches actual pirate attacks documented in Under The Black Flag. Miss Lucretia Parker was one of the victims of a pirate attack told in Under The Black Flag, who luckily lived to tell the tail. She saw people upon the ship she was on get brutally murdered while she was going to be kept for the Captain. Christopher was no better. He went on four different voyages, all of which travelled across the Atlantic Ocean to different Islands that became the New World. As his second voyage came about, he ended up in Jamaica and Hispaniola which, according to David Cordingly, became bases for piracy. His discoveries throughout his voyages led to the lands and waters being major places pirated roamed to. He started his voyages with the right intentions. Find new land and explore what is out there. However, the treasures that the discovery of the New World led to the corruption of him and other noteable explorers like Francis Drake. Christopher Columbus might have sailed the ocean and became a noted explorer in our history books, but now you can note that he was a pirate too.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyages_of_Christopher_Columbus#/media/File:Viajes_de_colon_en.svg


Cordingly, David. Under The Black Flag. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006. Print.

Stockton, Frank R. Buccaneers and Pirates. New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 2007. Print.

Wooden Legs and Buccaneers

Pirates have been well heard of throughout history and for many years. However, the line to which separates fact and fiction has been a bit blurred thanks to many children's stories created over the years. Under The Black Flag and Buccaneers and Pirates are two books written about pirates. While Under The Black Flag gives you very historical facts, Buccaneers and Pirates tells more of a story. However, both cross over a lot of similarities. In the first chapter or two in both stories, the writers comment on pirates being thought of as Robin Hood's or characters as such, when the facts show pirates were not. As said in Under The Black Flag, "Pirates were not maritime versions of Robin Hood and his Merry Men." While Buccaneers and Pirates mainly paints a story of how we all envision pirates to be, Under the Black Flag clearly contradicts our images. Frank Stockton, author of Buccaneers and Pirates, states "Such as my notion of pirate's life. I would kill nobody; the very sight of my black flag would be sufficient to put an end to all though of resistance...." David Cordingly, author of Under the Black Flag, states very clearly that "Piracy, like rape, depended on the use of force or the threat of force..." Those are just a couple specific contradictions listed just in the first couple chapters in each book. One is more so our visions of what we have grown up to see pirates as, while the other is simply all the facts as to what it truly meant to be a pirate.

Cordingly, David. Under The Black Flag. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006. Print.

Stockton, Frank R. Buccaneers and Pirates. New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 2007. Print.

A little about me

My name is Kayla. I am a nursing major at Georgia Gwinnett College. I currently work as an oral surgeon assistant in Dunwoody and am going on my third year there. We work on call trauma at GMC and the things that I have experienced the past three years are how I know I am meant to be in the medical field. In a little over a year, I will be able to apply to the nursing program of my choice and eventually I want to be an ER nurse. However, the more I see and learn about, I may change the type of nurse I will end up becoming.