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Augustin Blanco
Augustin Blanco (fl. 1700–1725) was a pirate active in the Caribbean. He was noted for attacking in open boats, and for having a mixed-race crew. History Blanco was from Baracoa, Cuba, and had been operating in the Caribbean for some time: “an old robber among these Islands about 25 years.” His crew was noted for being mixed-race, including “English, Scots, Spaniards, Mulattoes, and Negroes.” His co-Captain was an Englishman, Richard Hancock. Blanco had received commission as a ''guarda costa'' privateer from Don Carlos de Suere, Governor of Santiago de Cuba; the English complained that the Spaniards abused these commissions to attack English towns, logwood cutters, and others. In March 1725 Blanco attacked the Jamaica-bound sloop ''Snapper'' by rowing alongside in an open periagua. Blanco threatened to attack New Providence and “give no quarter,” and also claimed the Spanish Governor had forced him to attack the English and take prisoners who would be used as laborer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baracoa
Baracoa, whose full original name is: ''Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Baracoa'' (“Our Lady of the Assumption of Baracoa”), is a municipality and city in Guantánamo Province near the eastern tip of Cuba. It was visited by Admiral Christopher Columbus on November 27, 1492, and then founded by the first governor of Cuba, the Spanish conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar on August 15, 1511. It is the oldest Spanish settlement in Cuba and was its first capital (the basis for its nickname ''Ciudad Primada'', "First City"). Geography Baracoa is located on the spot where Christopher Columbus landed in Cuba on his first voyage. It is thought that the name stems from the indigenous Arauaca language word meaning "the presence of the sea". Baracoa lies on the Bay of Honey (''Bahía de Miel'') and is surrounded by a wide mountain range (including the Sierra del Purial), which causes it to be quite isolated, apart from a single mountain road built in the 1960s.The Baracoa mountai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Noland
Richard Noland ( fl. 1717-1724, last name occasionally Holland or Nowland) was an Irish pirate active in the Caribbean. He was best known for sailing with Samuel Bellamy before working for the Spanish. History Elected captain of Benjamin Hornigold’s ship after the crew deposed him for refusing to attack the English, Samuel Bellamy took a number of vessels including the slave ship ''Whydah''. Bellamy chose it as his flagship, and after capturing three more ships in April 1717, appointed his quartermaster Richard Noland as captain of the prize ''Anne Galley''; Bellamy's former quartermaster Paulsgrave Williams has earlier received a consort ship of his own to command, the ''Marianne''. Bellamy was caught in a storm off Cape Cod; he and the ''Whydah'' were lost at sea, while Noland and the others split up and departed. Noland, who had originally been part of Hornigold’s crew during the War of Spanish Succession, had taken aboard all of Bellamy’s men who still wanted to conti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Pirates
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18th-century Pirates
The 18th century lasted from January 1, 1701 ( MDCCI) to December 31, 1800 ( MDCCC). During the 18th century, elements of Enlightenment thinking culminated in the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions. During the century, slave trading and human trafficking expanded across the shores of the Atlantic, while declining in Russia, China, and Korea. Revolutions began to challenge the legitimacy of monarchical and aristocratic power structures, including the structures and beliefs that supported slavery. The Industrial Revolution began during mid-century, leading to radical changes in human society and the environment. Western historians have occasionally defined the 18th century otherwise for the purposes of their work. For example, the "short" 18th century may be defined as 1715–1789, denoting the period of time between the death of Louis XIV of France and the start of the French Revolution, with an emphasis on directly interconnected events. To historians who ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Year Of Birth Missing
A year or annus is the orbital period of a planetary body, for example, the Earth, moving in its orbit around the Sun. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by change in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are generally recognized: spring, summer, autumn and winter. In tropical and subtropical regions, several geographical sectors do not present defined seasons; but in the seasonal tropics, the annual wet and dry seasons are recognized and tracked. A calendar year is an approximation of the number of days of the Earth's orbital period, as counted in a given calendar. The Gregorian calendar, or modern calendar, presents its calendar year to be either a common year of 365 days or a leap year of 366 days, as do the Julian calendars. For the Gregorian calendar, the average length of the calendar year (the mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Mascarino
Simon Mascarino (fl. 1701–1721) was a Portuguese pirate active in the Caribbean. He was also a privateer in service of the Spanish. History Spanish ''guarda costa'' privateers had captured the sloop ''Revenge'' from the English, and in early 1721 it was captained by Simon Mascarino, a “noted villain in these parts where he has been privatier and pirate above 20 years.” He had a commission from the Governor of St. Jago to cruise against English ships and settlements of Jamaica. After looting a Jamaican schooner, Mascarino’s ''Revenge'' was caught by the Royal Navy’s Captain Vernon of Jamaica. Vernon wrote that Mascarino had been augmenting his crew with anyone he could find: “His crew was made up of all nations and colours.” The Frenchmen of his crew were sent to the French Governor at Santo Domingo, who executed them. Black and mulatto members of his crew were sold into slavery unless they could prove their status as freedmen, which some did. Vernon also took aboa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Luke
Matthew Luke (died 1722, occasionally named Mateo Luque or Matteo Luca) was a pirate active in the Caribbean. History Luke, originally from Genoa, had been cruising the Caribbean under commission from the Spanish Governor of Puerto Rico as a ''guarda costa'' privateer. With his sloop ''Vengeance'' (or ''Venganza'') he had earlier captured four English vessels and murdered their crews. In April 1722 he spotted a merchant ship off of Hispaniola and moved alongside to attack it. The ship turned out to be Captain Candler’s 40-gun fifth-rate frigate ''HMS Launceton'' (or ''Lauceston / Lanceston''), sent to the Caribbean to replace the scrapped ''HMS Ludlow Castle''. Candler’s men boarded the ''Vengeance'', whose sailors claimed she was a merchant trader. The paper wrap from a powder cartridge was determined to be a page from the journal of a snow named ''Crean'', whose crew had been murdered. In the ship’s hold they found the rest of the 58-man crew in hiding, all of which were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Johnson (pirate)
Henry Johnson (fl. 1730) was an Irish pirate active in the Caribbean. He shared captaincy with a Spaniard, Pedro Poleas. Johnson was best known thanks to an autobiography written by a sailor he captured and marooned. History Johnson and Poleas jointly commanded the Rhode Island-built 18-gun, 90-man sloop ''Two Brothers''. He was known as a ruthless and bloodthirsty pirate, said to be an excellent shot despite missing a hand: “though he has but one hand, he fires a piece very dexterously, laying the barrel upon his stump, and drawing the trigger with his right hand.” He was also said to keep loaded pistols with him, even when he slept, in case of surprise attack or to take his own life if capture was imminent. Johnson was Irish but was called “Henriques the Englishman” by his majority-Spanish crew. In early 1730 he attacked the 18-gun, 25-man ''John and Anne'' near Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Benito (pirate)
Don Benito (fl. 1725, real name possibly Benito Socarras Y Aguero) was a Spanish pirate and ''guarda costa'' privateer active in the Caribbean. History Don Benito sailed his ship ''St. Francis de la Vega'' with a mixed crew of Spanish, French, and English sailors. He shared command with Captain Richard Holland, an Irishman who had sailed with the Spanish Navy and as a privateer as early as 1718. Some of his English crew had previously sailed with Edward England and Richard Taylor. They may have been from the East Indiaman ''Cassandra'', which had been captured in the Indian Ocean by England then traded to Taylor, who surrendered it to the Spanish in Panama in exchange for a pardon. Though he was commissioned by the Governor of Cuba, Don Benito sailed as far north as the Virginia Capes. There in June 1724 he captured the slave ship ''John and Mary'' as well as the ''Prudent Hannah'' and ''Dolphin'' in quick succession, taking all three as prize ships. They looted the ''John and M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Frowd
Richard Frowd (fl. 1718–1719) was a pirate active in the Caribbean. He is best known for sailing with William Moody. He was one of a number of pirates to have both white and black sailors in his crew. History Frowd was in the Caribbean in his 8-gun 60-man brigantine alongside Englishman William Moody’s 36-gun 130-man ''Rising Sun'' and another ship in 1718. There they captured several ships near St. Christopher’s, looting some and burning others, continuing through early 1719 after resupplying at St. Thomas in December. Their aggression prompted Governor Hamilton to request assignment of a warship from England for protection. Frowd acted as a ship’s tender to Moody’s ''Rising Sun'' but also took ships on his own, including a pink from Belfast near the Carolinas in January 1719. After cruising the Caribbean for a time, Moody sailed for the coast of Africa. Near Cape Verde around April 1719 Moody and his supporters marooned Thomas Cocklyn, and were themselves in turn for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuba
Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean meet. Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both the American state of Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola ( Haiti/Dominican Republic), and north of both Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital; other major cities include Santiago de Cuba and Camagüey. The official area of the Republic of Cuba is (without the territorial waters) but a total of 350,730 km² (135,418 sq mi) including the exclusive economic zone. Cuba is the second-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti, with over 11 million inhabitants. The territory that is now Cuba was inhabited by the Ciboney people from the 4th millennium BC with the Gua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nassau, Bahamas
Nassau ( ) is the capital and largest city of the Bahamas. With a population of 274,400 as of 2016, or just over 70% of the entire population of the Bahamas, Nassau is commonly defined as a primate city, dwarfing all other towns in the country. It is the centre of commerce, education, law, administration, and media of the country. Lynden Pindling International Airport, the major airport for the Bahamas, is located about west of the city centre of Nassau, and has daily flights to major cities in Canada, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and the United States. The city is located on the island of New Providence. Nassau is the site of the House of Assembly and various judicial departments and was considered historically to be a stronghold of pirates. The city was named in honour of William III of England, Prince of Orange-Nassau. Nassau's modern growth began in the late eighteenth century, with the influx of thousands of Loyalists and their slaves to the Bahamas following the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
