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Famous Pirates: Close-Up

Famous Pirates: Close-Up. Part I. Literary Representations and Historical Reality. Capitian Blood “service to the French, seafaring experience with the Dutch, Spanish prison” Monmouth’s rebellion The system of indentured slavery The concept of Spanish honor Port Royal Tortuga L’Olonais

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Famous Pirates: Close-Up

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  1. Famous Pirates: Close-Up Part I

  2. Literary Representations and Historical Reality • Capitian Blood • “service to the French, seafaring experience with the Dutch, Spanish prison” • Monmouth’s rebellion • The system of indentured slavery • The concept of Spanish honor • Port Royal • Tortuga • L’Olonais • Maracaibo and Cartagena • War: the French • William and Mary • They are cows, we are pigs • Esquemeling • Former slaves on pirate ships • The Amerindians and the pirates • Maracaibo and Cartagena (again) • The rules of the Brotherhood of the Coast • The Pirate Republic

  3. Barbarossa-Redbeard(Baba Aruj)1474-1518 • The Barbarossa brothers • Polyglot • Trade and privateering • Fought the Knights Hospitalier, the Italians, and the Spanish • Transported expulsed Muslims from Spain, 1504-10 • Raided the coasts of Spain, Sicily, Sardinia, the Balearic Islands; captured cities in Algeria and Tunisia • Ruler of Algiers; brought the Ottoman empire to North Africa (1517) where it remained for four centuries

  4. Grace O’Malley1530-1603 Meeting with the Queen • Inherited a rather large shipping and trading business; taxation of fishing • Castles, marriages, children • Abilities in battle proven during a castle siege • “Taxed” cargo ships for safe passage; non-compliance meant violence and even murder • Inspired admiration and loyalty in her followers • In the public imagination: folk hero; national patriot of Ireland; “The Sea Queen of Connacht”; 16th century Amazon; today - subject of a Broadway musical Images: http://irregularwars.blogspot.co.uk/ The O’Malley crest

  5. Francis Drake1540-1596 • Farming family of good stature • Gifted seafarer • Spanish treasure ships • Slave trade • Raids of Cadiz and Panama • Circumnavigation • Knighthood • Vice admiral of the English fleet against the Armada • Commissioned to “clean” the English Channel: seek and destroy remaining Spanish ships, and also pirate vessels • Unsuccessful final campaigns

  6. Diego The Mulattod. 1673 according to Benerson Little • Several different people or one known by many names: Diego the Mulatto, Diego de los Reyes, Captain Diego Martín, Diego de la Cruz, Diego Díaz, Diego le Métis, Diego Lucifer • It is more or less a consensus that Martín, de los Reyes, and Lucifer are all names of the same person • Former slave from Havana • Quick rise to captain of ship • Sailed with Dutch pirates • Likely received offence in Campeche • Attack on Campeche, 1633 • Gallantry • Treatment of Isabel Maldonado, widow of the former governor of the Yucatán • Treatment of Thomas Cage on his return to England Portrait by Diego Velázquez The sitter is Juan de Pareja, another painter and former slave

  7. Henry Morgand. 1688 • Son of a Welsh farmer; both uncles rose to prominence, one becoming Major-General, and the other, Lt-Governor of Jamaica • Alexander Esquemeling accounts • Puerto Principe campaign • Porto Bello attack • Raid on Cartagena • Raid on Maracaibo and Gibraltar • Capture of Panama and destruction of Panama City • Arrested for violation of the 1670 peace treaty • Knighted • Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica, 1675 • Suspended from the Jamaican Council • Dies in retirement

  8. Juan Corsod. 1685 • His name as a joke • Started off hunting logwood cutters under captain Felipe de la Barrera y Villegas, off the Gulf Coast of Mexico • Partner in crime: Pedro de Costa • Flagship: León Coronado • Systematically attacked French and British buccaneers from Cuba (circa 1682); caused tension in the Caribbean • Tortured and murdered captives • Marooned with part of the crew after a storm, died of injuries and exposure. It is told that the survivors resorted to cannibalism

  9. Bartholomew Sharp1650-1702 • Buccaneer • Attacked numerous Spanish ships and towns • Flagship: Trinity • The book of maps taken From El Santo Rosario (1681) • First Englishman to go around Cape Horn • Accounts of his adventures published during his lifetime • Full pardon from Charles II • Died in prison and in debt

  10. Edward Teach—Blackbeard1680-1718 Bath, NC • Likely from a wealthy family • Participant in the War of Spanish Succession • Flagship: Queen Anne’s Revenge • Operations: Caribbean; Atlantic coast of the British colonies • Blockade of Charleston, SC • Royal pardon in NC • Persecuted by the governor of Virginia • The legend is more violent than the reality 1736 engraving Image: Miles Teves

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