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170. Captain Morgan - Privateer, Pirate & Buccaneer - Part I · Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood

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  Speaker 1: Hello, delicious friends, and welcome to Who Read What Now?
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  Speaker 1: The history podcast That's not Your history class with me
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  Speaker 1: your host, Katie Charlwood, history harlote and reader of books.
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  Speaker 1: So I would like to preemptively apologize if at any
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  Speaker 1: point over the next few episodes you hear my laptop
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  Speaker 1: because it's fucking noisy. It sounds like an airplane taking off.
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  Speaker 1: It is absolutely ridiculous. I have done everything. It's the fans,
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  Speaker 1: It's ten year old laptops. I've got to give up
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  Speaker 1: the ghost now. I've done the pressure air thing. I've
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  Speaker 1: done the take in the back off and scrubbing it thing.
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  Speaker 1: There's not much else I can do. I now need
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  Speaker 1: to replace the laptop, but of course those are expensive,
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  Speaker 1: so I am saving up, so you're gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: bear with me for a few more episodes. I mean, like,
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  Speaker 1: I did try and get a replacement laptop a few
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  Speaker 1: years ago at the suggestion of someone who allegedly knew
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  Speaker 1: what they were talking about spoiler alert. They did not,
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  Speaker 1: and it was absolute bollocks. It just couldn't do anything
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  Speaker 1: anything at all. Like I had episodes that I would
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  Speaker 1: be in the middle of the recording and it would
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  Speaker 1: just shut down. I would lose the audio file forever,
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  Speaker 1: and I cried so much. It caused me such such issues.
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  Speaker 1: But speaking a daylight robbery, we're doing a month on Pirates.
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  Speaker 1: This is Pirate Month, and you may be thinking, why
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  Speaker 1: Dezember of all times, listen, I wanted to talk about
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  Speaker 1: something that wasn't incredibly depressing, she says, who's going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about just horrible things for the next few episodes?
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  Speaker 1: But like Pirates, you can kind of have a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of fun with Piracy. I mean, anyone who had
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  Speaker 1: Napster or LimeWire knows what kind of bier And are
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  Speaker 1: you the buggling one or the one who burns davds? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: if you're so young that you don't know what burning
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  Speaker 1: a CD is, Oh, that may be another history lesson
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  Speaker 1: that I'll just have to do at some point. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I was like Pirates because I want to do something
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more fun. She says about like horrible
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  Speaker 1: stuff because this time of year, especially this time of year,
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  Speaker 1: can be really hard for a lot of people. It
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  Speaker 1: can be really difficult, especially if you're you're a divergent.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're in you're a divergent, you are affected
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  Speaker 1: more on big days, not just because of the what
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  Speaker 1: goes up must come down scenario, but these big days,
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  Speaker 1: like big events, I, holidays, whatever, they can like really
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  Speaker 1: really affect your regulation and whatnot. Like your ADHD symptoms,
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  Speaker 1: it's like they're turned up to eleven this time of year.
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  Speaker 1: And on top of this, typically people are more likely
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  Speaker 1: to suffer anxious or depressive episodes during the festive period.
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  Speaker 1: And so I'm like pirates. That being said, I am
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  Speaker 1: going to be talking about raiders, marauders, pillagers, plundering, murdering, torture, robbing, stealing, slavery, colonialism,
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  Speaker 1: and just a whole lot of crime. So if you
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  Speaker 1: have an issue with any of those, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: suggest you exit stage left and I will see you
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  Speaker 1: in like two episodes. But I know what you're thinking.
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  Speaker 1: You're thinking, Katie, it has been over three minutes. Please
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  Speaker 1: quite your jibbil jabba in fact me, in fact you,
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  Speaker 1: I will. But first we've got to get our source on.
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  Speaker 1: Our sources are Privateers and Pirates of the West Indies
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  Speaker 1: by Violet Barber, Pirates of the original Panama Canal by
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  Speaker 1: Samir s Panell, Piracy and the Laird Sovereignity of the
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  Speaker 1: eighteenth century Atlantic by Mark Shark. Pirates of the West
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  Speaker 1: Indies by Clinton V. Black, Piracy and History by Adlery Morale.
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  Speaker 1: Buccaneers of the Caribbean. How Piracy Forged an Empire by
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  Speaker 1: John Latimer. Modern Scholarship in Caribbean Pirates sixteen fifty to
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  Speaker 1: seventeen twenty five by Larry Schwegatt and b. R. Burg
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  Speaker 1: Sir Thomas Mordyford by Nola Zahidia Henry Morgan by David
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  Speaker 1: Williams Jamaica Gleaner, Pieces of the Past Henry Morgan, The
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  Speaker 1: Pirate King by Rebecca Turtello. The Buccaneer King The Story
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  Speaker 1: of Captain Henry Morgan by Graham Thomas. Pirates Brigand's Buccaneers
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  Speaker 1: and Privateers in Fact, Fiction and Legend by Jan Rogozinski.
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  Speaker 1: The History of Piracy by Philip Goss. Iberia and the Americas, Culture,
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  Speaker 1: Politics and History by John Michael Francis. Buccaneer Admiral Sir
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  Speaker 1: Henry Morgan by H. R. Allen. Admiral Sir Henry Morgan,
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  Speaker 1: The Greatest Buccaneer of them All by Terry Breverton. The
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  Speaker 1: Buccaneers of America, A true account of the most remarkable
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  Speaker 1: assaults committed of late years upon the coasts of the
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  Speaker 1: West Indies by the buccaneers of Jamaica and Tortuga by
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  Speaker 1: John ex Gomeln. I have definitely mispronounced his name, and
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  Speaker 1: of course we have our old v favoriteshistory dot com
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  Speaker 1: and biography dot com. Well, I use it uncomfortably good.
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  Speaker 1: Then let's begin. Captain Morgan more than just a rum.
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  Speaker 1: He was a real person from Wales, of all places.
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  Speaker 1: So Wales is a country that's sort of on the
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  Speaker 1: side of England, and it's it's part of Britain and
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  Speaker 1: the UK, but it is also its own country lesson
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  Speaker 1: geography is political and it's also weird anyway. So Henry
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  Speaker 1: or as he was originally Harry Morgan, was born around
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  Speaker 1: sixteen thirty five in either Pencan or land Rumney in Wales,
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  Speaker 1: basically one of these two towns which is between Cardiff
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  Speaker 1: and Newport. So his father, he's a successful farmer and natural.
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  Speaker 1: It was assumed that he would follow in his father's footsteps,
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  Speaker 1: but alas Harry had other plans. He ends up moving
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  Speaker 1: to Bristol, which I have mentioned in previous episodes that
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  Speaker 1: Bristol was a port town and Bristol is fairly close
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  Speaker 1: to Cardiff, so like once you get there, you're just
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  Speaker 1: like a hop, skip and a jump away, Like they're
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  Speaker 1: really really close. And so Henry slash Harry he is
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  Speaker 1: seeking adventure, right, so his uncle I believe is some
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  Speaker 1: kind of semen. I'm not sure which type, but at
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  Speaker 1: that point he's some something to do with a man
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  Speaker 1: on the seat. And Henry here he's seeking adventure. And
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  Speaker 1: so he makes his way to Bristol for exciting employment opportunities,
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  Speaker 1: and he reaches the docks, he manages to make his
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  Speaker 1: way from Bristol to to Barbados. Now I don't think
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned that this time about Bristol is it's actually
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  Speaker 1: an English town, so it's an English port town. It's
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  Speaker 1: just across from like Cardiff in Wales, two separate countries
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  Speaker 1: they are but part of another. It's a thing. So yes,
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  Speaker 1: you have Bristol to Barbados. How I mean, logically, one
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  Speaker 1: would assume he either joined a crew or he stowed away,
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  Speaker 1: or perhaps he just tied an inflatable banana to the
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  Speaker 1: back of a ship and hoped for the best. N
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  Speaker 1: it my friends knit. So there are two main theories
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  Speaker 1: because we don't actually know exactly how he got there, right.
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  Speaker 1: The first theory being that he traveled to the Caribbean
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  Speaker 1: is part of Robert Venable's army, like they were being
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  Speaker 1: sent over there is part of the Caribbean expedition against
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  Speaker 1: the Spanish by Oliver Cromwell. I know that I discussed
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  Speaker 1: this actually Oliver Cromwell and the whole mornarchy situation in
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  Speaker 1: several episodes. I think it's in some of the Witch episodes,
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  Speaker 1: and I know I talked about it in the Barbara
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  Speaker 1: Palmer episode. So I will probably just do an episode
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  Speaker 1: on Crommell at some point. That day is not today, though,
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  Speaker 1: because why would I speak about a man if I
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  Speaker 1: don't have to. I say that as if I'm not
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  Speaker 1: talking about Captain Morgan today. But like, like, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I have so many pirates, I've got to talk about
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  Speaker 1: some of the male ones, right Anyway, it's equality, right,
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  Speaker 1: it's fair. So the other theory as to how Henry
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  Speaker 1: Morgan got to the Caribbean was that he was taken
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  Speaker 1: to Barbados as crewe and then sold on as a servant.
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  Speaker 1: Neither is verified, right for the record, now, traveling on
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  Speaker 1: the ship and then becoming a servant on the other side.
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  Speaker 1: That's indentured servitude. It was a way that a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people actually got to the New World. So someone
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  Speaker 1: would pay their passage, and their passage would result in
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  Speaker 1: them like working on the other side, and then they
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  Speaker 1: would work off so many years and they're like basically
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  Speaker 1: paying off a debt effectively. So you could work your
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  Speaker 1: way out of indentured servitude. You could not work your
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  Speaker 1: way out of slavery. Just want to confirm this for
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  Speaker 1: the people who might not know that. And again, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I've discussed this many times before. It's just
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  Speaker 1: a lot of history repainting. So when he's in Barbaros,
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  Speaker 1: he does join Robert Venable's army, and it's from this
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  Speaker 1: military service that Henry Morgan finds himself in the way
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  Speaker 1: world of piracy and privateering. And this is around the
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  Speaker 1: sixteen fifties, which is like the beginning of the Golden
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  Speaker 1: Age of piracy. Now, the golden age of piracy lasted
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  Speaker 1: between like sixteen fifty and seventeen twenty, maybe seventeen thirty
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  Speaker 1: seventeen thirty, actually, yeah, because it's eighty years in total,
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  Speaker 1: and not that long in the grand scheme of things.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a good chunk of time. This eighty year period,
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  Speaker 1: and the Golden Age of piracy itself is split into
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  Speaker 1: three periods. You've got the buccaneering period, You've got the
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  Speaker 1: pirate round, and then you've got the post Spanish succession period.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to cover this thing a little bit now,
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  Speaker 1: but I think I'm going to go do a deep
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  Speaker 1: dive in another episode. I think, yeah, you deserve that,
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  Speaker 1: because there's a lot there. So the Buccaneering period is
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  Speaker 1: the first period, and this is from about sixteen fifty
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  Speaker 1: to sixteen eighty, which thirty years, which you know, fairly decent.
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  Speaker 1: And this occurred typically around Jamaica and Tortuga, and this
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  Speaker 1: was between the English and French seamen against Spanish ships,
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  Speaker 1: settlements and colonies. Why the buccaneering period, Well, it's region specific,
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  Speaker 1: So buccaneer relates to pirates in the Caribbean and the
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  Speaker 1: West coast of Central America. And the word buccaneer actually
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  Speaker 1: comes from the French boucan because English is four languages
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  Speaker 1: and a trench coat. So bouchon was a grill for
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  Speaker 1: smoking meat and it was basically making jerky. It made jerky,
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  Speaker 1: so French wild game hunters. They would use the bouchain
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  Speaker 1: on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola which is now Haiti
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  Speaker 1: and the Dominican Republic because again, remember geography is political,
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  Speaker 1: so originally the term applied to these French hunters who
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  Speaker 1: weren't exactly welcome on the Spanish controlled island of Hispaniola.
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  Speaker 1: So these hunters, like they mainly survived by hunting game
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  Speaker 1: from native species like the hotea and game introduced by
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  Speaker 1: the Spanish oxen bore cows, actual cows, like, that's so
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  Speaker 1: many cows Spain brock cows. But yeah, so there's hunting game.
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  Speaker 1: But in addition, they are also pillaging Spanish ships around
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  Speaker 1: the coast of the island because you know, finite sources. Naturally,
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  Speaker 1: the Spanish aren't too happy about that, and so they
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  Speaker 1: are trying to push the French game hunters out of
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  Speaker 1: Spanish territory. And as time goes on, unscrupulous members join
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  Speaker 1: these huntles, along with some nerdoels you might say, possibly
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  Speaker 1: scoundrels and scally wags, and this is not making the
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  Speaker 1: Spanish happy. Now, the Spanish are all over the Caribbean, right,
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  Speaker 1: they have made many settlements and they have like really
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  Speaker 1: dug you know, their heels in here. And so the
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  Speaker 1: Spanish are making life a bit more difficult, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for the buccaneers. And so these groups start fighting back
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  Speaker 1: and start pillaging more Spanish ships. And as these buccaneer
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  Speaker 1: groups got larger and you know, they sort of end
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  Speaker 1: up fleeing for another island just off the coast of Hispaniola,
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  Speaker 1: which was also controlled by Spain, and you may have
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  Speaker 1: heard of the island of Tortoga. Tortuga was a bit
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  Speaker 1: more defensible than the northwest of Hispaniola. So like, because
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  Speaker 1: they were relegated to this island with little to no
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  Speaker 1: food sources, they really turned to piracy because like they
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  Speaker 1: didn't have things to hunt because they were kicked off
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  Speaker 1: this other island.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, it's like, effectively, how do I put this?
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  Speaker 2: Piracy is crime on water more specifically the sea. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I'll be honest with you, I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: Entirely sure that lake or river piracy is quite a thing.
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  Speaker 1: Like does it stop when you get to an estuary?
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  Speaker 1: Like where where does it stop? Being? Piracy is only
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  Speaker 1: open water? That is? That is the question. Someone have
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  Speaker 1: that answer for me. AnyWho you've got buccaneers. You've got
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  Speaker 1: cosset and privateers. Now privateers are legal pirates. They have
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  Speaker 1: a letter of mark, which is a document that makes
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  Speaker 1: you a legal pirate. Robbery under arms was a thing anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Like it was seen as acceptable to like loot during
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  Speaker 1: acts of war, right to the winner, go the spoils, right,
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  Speaker 1: legal looting if you will. Now I'm not gonna go
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  Speaker 1: into that right now. We're gonna we're gonna deal with
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  Speaker 1: that later. But so a lot of countries they used
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  Speaker 1: privateers because most of them either had like daeny tiny
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  Speaker 1: navies or no navies at all, and so they were
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  Speaker 1: able to outsource this. So they could just hire these
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  Speaker 1: guys to be their little navy, you know. And all
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  Speaker 1: they had to do is be like, yeah, you can
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  Speaker 1: also steal whatever you want. I'm gonna touch on corsairs,
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  Speaker 1: even though they're not like involved in this in any way.
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  Speaker 1: So the corsairs, because they're mostly over in the Mediterranean,
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  Speaker 1: some were like government sponsored, crown sponsored. Some wearn't. Like
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  Speaker 1: they caused such a commotion that like entire wars would
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  Speaker 1: start because of them. And so you had like Turkish corsairs,
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  Speaker 1: you had French corsairs, like a whole bunch of them.
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  Speaker 1: They were like a massive geopolitical headache. But we will
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  Speaker 1: discuss them at some point. But yes, back to Henry
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  Speaker 1: Morgan and so like at this point he's joined General
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  Speaker 1: Venable's British army in Barbados. And again the reason this
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  Speaker 1: army was there was because Britain had put them together
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  Speaker 1: with the aim of invading Spanish territory in the West Indies.
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  Speaker 1: And this army was three thousand strong, so a few
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  Speaker 1: men when it sailed from England, a number that troubled
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  Speaker 1: when it stopped in Barbados. Right, So whether Andry Morgan
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  Speaker 1: was an original crew member or joined in Barbados, well,
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  Speaker 1: whom's Tuesday? Right, So it's got three thousand men at
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  Speaker 1: this point I had a decent number to add a
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  Speaker 1: thousand right to start. Now it's got three like that's
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  Speaker 1: big at the best of times. Now, I'm not here
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  Speaker 1: to tell people how to run their dangerous colonial armies,
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  Speaker 1: but perhaps it would have been a good idea. Do
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  Speaker 1: have a plan, because like Venables, he wasn't exactly given
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  Speaker 1: a target as such. Right, They more sort of floated
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  Speaker 1: the idea because some targets in the West Indies they
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  Speaker 1: were suggested, but they were basically given free to do whatever.
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  Speaker 1: During the Anglo Spanish War of sixteen forty five to
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  Speaker 1: sixteen sixty there were many Anglo Spanish wars, like a
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  Speaker 1: whole chunk of them. So I will be being specific
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  Speaker 1: about specific wars because there's a lot. If I this one,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but there's there's so many, Like when weren't
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  Speaker 1: the English sparring with another nation? Right, Like, there's many. Anyhow,
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  Speaker 1: Venables he decides that he's not going to do anything
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  Speaker 1: by halves and comes out all guns blazing, and he
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  Speaker 1: decides that he's going to attack the island of Hispaniola,
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  Speaker 1: the island that has been under Spanish control for well
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  Speaker 1: over a century. On a scale of zero to invading
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  Speaker 1: Russia in the winter, how bad is your idea? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Because this mmmmmmm they this is, oh my goodness. Unsurprisingly,
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  Speaker 1: this attempt to take Hispaniola was an absolute disaster twice.
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  Speaker 1: That is to say, he fucked up royally twice. Right,
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  Speaker 1: They had their arses handed to them both times, and
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  Speaker 1: in a move that surprised absolutely no one. After the
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  Speaker 1: second defeat, Venables declared very loudly that his men were
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  Speaker 1: cowards and he's like, fuck this for Game of Soldiers
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  Speaker 1: and sets his sights on Jamaica instead. Right, he thought
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  Speaker 1: that if he could take Jamaica that it would be
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  Speaker 1: like a pretty sweet victory for the British as an
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  Speaker 1: alternative to Hispaniola. I would like to preface this by
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  Speaker 1: saying that I have nothing against Jamaica. I would love
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  Speaker 1: to visit Jamaica, so if you want to invite me,
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  Speaker 1: I would love to actually sidebar right, sidebar. So I
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  Speaker 1: discovered that you can prepay customs through the UK if
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  Speaker 1: you're sending packages to the to the US. Right, and
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  Speaker 1: I live in a border county, so I am very
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  Speaker 1: close to the UK. I live in Ireland, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: literally across the border. So I was like, oh, let's
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  Speaker 1: do that because I have been having a fight with
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  Speaker 1: the USPS for months. So I'm tracking the package and
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  Speaker 1: for a week at least it has been in assorting
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  Speaker 1: office in Jamaica. I didn't know that assorting office was
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  Speaker 1: in Jamaica because it's going to the US, because it
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  Speaker 1: went to New York then went to Jamaica, and I
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  Speaker 1: thought Jamaica was part of the Commonwealth. If it's not, again, geography,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, not my strong point, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: So I was like, where's it going? Is it going there?
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  Speaker 1: Is it not? Like, because it's supposed to be going
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  Speaker 1: to Los Angeles and there was like tea and chocolate
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  Speaker 1: in it, and I've already had to replace the chocolate
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  Speaker 1: before because of a customs issue, And now I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if this Terry's chocolate orange is going to land
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  Speaker 1: there still spherical at this point, Like I'm at the
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  Speaker 1: point where I'm gonna have to just travel over with
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  Speaker 1: a suitcase full of goodies, right, just throw it in
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  Speaker 1: the window and go like that's that's my new plan. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't realize there'd be a sort of office in Jamaica,
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  Speaker 1: is my whole thing. I was very surprised, and I
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  Speaker 1: actually now really want to see the Jamaican sorting office.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so I'm such a weird one. I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I want to go see the sorting office. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Jamaica at this point in time, so we're talking mid
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  Speaker 1: seventeenth century, it is this underdeveloped island, like compared to
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  Speaker 1: like Hispaniola. It had one town, just one, I'm serious,
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  Speaker 1: and it was defented by a grand total of two
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  Speaker 1: hundred Spanish soldiers. And again to reiterate, at this point
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  Speaker 1: in history, it wasn't really seen as a useful like
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  Speaker 1: a useful island for the British in the Caribbean. So
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  Speaker 1: Venables here he just used one thousand men to capture
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  Speaker 1: an island that wasn't significant at this point. Right at
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  Speaker 1: this point, now here's the thing. He had three thousand men.
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  Speaker 1: There's a whole stuff happening. He marks them up to the
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  Speaker 1: top of the hill, and he marks them down again,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: and then he had one thousand men, like some deserted,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: some just like obviously we're injured or killed, and yeah,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: he's left with a thousand and in that thousand, one
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: of which is Henry Morgan. So they take the island
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: and the the well the country England. They're not impressed,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: like they thought that this was such a waste of
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: manpower and resources, so that when General Venables returns to England,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: they threw him in the Terror of London, like straight
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: away he was imprisoned for mishandling the army like that's
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: that's the whole thing. So while he's in the clink,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: like most of his troops, they're still in Jamaica, including
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Henry Morgan, and surprise, surprise, the Spanish were fighting back,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: not not very well, but they were. But it wasn't
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: military maneuvals that were the greatest threat the British troops. No,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: it was disease. So all of these tropical diseases, like
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: the English and Welsh bodies, they just couldn't handle it right,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: so you had yellow fever was a major one, and
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: another of course was dysentery because all roads leaked to dysentery.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: But Henry Morgan survived because otherwise this would be a
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: much shorter story. Jamaica eventually came under complete British control
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: when the Spanish were pushed back, and this island was
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: actually a good vantage point into the Caribbean for the British,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: even though it was initially seen as Veniable's failure. Also
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: in addition, furthermore, it led to a village with a
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: fairly decent port being established, one of great interest to
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: privateers and buccaneers at like the village of Port Royal,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: another one that you may have heard of, and Henry
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Morgan he would always circle back to Port Royal with
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: his booty from swashbuckling and adventuring. So Henry Morgan, the
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: way Welshman, he's unemployed in Jamaica, what with Venables being
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: imprisoned and all, and in a crazy random happenstance, an
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: opportunity befalls him. There are two pirate ships ready to
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: set sail, and they always need decent crew members. It's
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: quite likely that these ships were comprised of many of
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Venable's ex troops because you know, they had seafaring skills
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: and we're no longer in receipt of a working wage.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Disclaimer we disclaimer for you. Historians will argue that Morgan
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: was always a private here and not a pirate, but listen,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: you can absolutely be a pirate and a privateer at
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: the same time. And let me tell you that man
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: was definitely up to some piratey shit. Okay. So yeah,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: he's sailing with these pirates and they did very well
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: for themselves, with their voyages resulting in decent profits, better
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: than most private deals kicking about actually, And because they're
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: doing so well, Morgan he has a wee chin wag
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: with some of his shipmates and suggests that they come
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: together and use that you know, big hunk of decent
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: profits to buy a ship themselves, and they think this
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: is a great idea. They buy a ship. So yeah,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: him his shipmates. They have a ship now. And this
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: is the thing about pirate ships, right. What's interesting is
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: like pirates are their own little society, right, and typically
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: weirdly progressive, like little floating democracies. You know. They voted
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: on how they were going to do things, on how
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: they were going to share profits, on how they were
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: going to run the ship. And obviously you have to
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: have like a big boss in charge who knows what
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: the fuck they're doing, because you need you need some
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: You need a captain, Okay, you need that person, just
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: like you need someone who can steer, just like you
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: need someone who knows how to cook, like you need
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: these things on your ship. So they vote and they
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: unanimously choose Henry to be the captain. Captain Morgan, and
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: this is a good crew, Like they are well good
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: at this. They've got this plundering malarkey down past and
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: for the next few years they are marauding, reading and
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: getting some really great hals. None of this she and
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I'll tamia bullshit, by the way, really good stuff and
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: independent work, as we know, is all good, but sometimes
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: a wee bit of sponsorship doesn't go awry, a bit
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: of freelancing here and there, and so like. Somewhere between
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: the late sixteen fifties and early sixteen sixties, Captain Morgan
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: joins a fleet. So Sir Christopher Mings, he was putting
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: together a fleet of ships to launch attacks against Spanish territories,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: just like venibles hat what years before, a couple years
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: before now Mings he is outsourced in here and he
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: amasses the largest buccaneer fleet at the time, right so
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: for this plan he has this absolutely mas the fleet
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: like for this era, he's got fourteen ships involved with
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: at least fourteen hundred pirates altogether, and this is all
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: approved by the British Crown. A huge group of privateers
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: were provided a letter of mark and this is just
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: like a seafaring hall pass for murder, mayhem, looting and pillaging.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: In sixteen sixty two, Captain Morgan led a ship in
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: an attack on Cuba. Basically it's the second largest city
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: on the island, right after Havana, which was the most
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: important and the largest. Santiago de Cuba was an important
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: port city, and unsurprisingly this had an incredibly strong fortress
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: at the harbor, the Castillo del Morro. Now, what is
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: surprising is that the privateer fleet took it quite easily.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: And they did this by destroying the shit out of it. Yeah,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: like it's easy to take over when it's fucking rubble. Okay,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Like you're not trying to claim this as your own,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: You're just trying to tear it down. Because if you wanted,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: you know, this to be somewhere where you could live,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: if you really wanted this area to grow to have
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: you know, industry, to have commerce, to have you know,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: living spaces, if you wanted to do that in this area,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't have blown the shit out of it. I'm
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: just saying the way you just consider that in general
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: about the world. Captain Morgan continues privateering for Sir Mings.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: The following year what the Sack of Campeche, also known
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: as the Mansfield Assault, which would become the blueprint for
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: coastal raids in the buccaneering era. Again, to slip into
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: some context, this is all part of the Anglo Spanish War,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: this one sixteen fifty four to sixteen seventy one. So
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: we're like in the middle of that and the attack
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: on San Francisco de Campetti, which was a heavily fortified
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: coastal town in what is now like southern Mexico. This
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: battle lasted two hours. The Buccaneers sacked the city, claiming
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: another fourteen ships from the harbor and a booty of
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: around one hundred and fifty thousand Spanish pieces of eight. So,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: because of the way this port had been absolutely pillaged,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: King Charles the Second of England had to officially forbid
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: further raids of this ilk right the way that this
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: was done, because it absolutely it's basically ungentlemanly warfare, like
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: because of the manner that it was done, like it
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: is seen as shocking and like there's a really bad
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: reaction to it, sort of socially, and so he has
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: to like forbid it. Like there was massive outrage because
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: of just how catastrophic it was. Now you can sort
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: of see the way that private raids happen. You can
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: imagine it and lots of running and shouting and big
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: bambim Like it's violent, it is terrifying, it is destructive,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Like we put this little Hollywood wash on it and
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: it's fun in silly and I'm a big fan of
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: a swashbuckling movie and we should bring those back. Okay,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: we don't need magic. We don't need magic. You want
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: to be magic in it. That's fine. Swashbuckle and adventures. Man,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: that's a great time period. It's just it's interesting. Anyway,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna into it because I'll just rant. But AnyWho,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Captain Morgan is like privateering is fine and all, but
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: what if I actually want to do something instead of
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: waiting for the opportunity to be handed to him? And
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: so he decides instead to attack different coastal cities to Rohilo, Viohilmosa, Grenada.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: Like he's got his eyes set on all these places,
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: every single village fell like every single one of them.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: He takes them all. And he was gaining quite the
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: reputation for being this like a leader, for having massive
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: go colonies, and he's like being feared and respected, and
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: there's there's just this sort of myth and legend kind
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: of coming from it because he's really really good at
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: pillaging and plundering right with very few loss of crew.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: He's well respected by his men. It's he's he's doing
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: well in the piracy sphere, and like this reputation. It's
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: also because he hasn't lost a lot of crew, especially
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: like either by like defeat or by desertion, I should say,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: because the thing about being a captain, like during this era,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: like I said, a pirate ship is like this little
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: floating democracy. Right, if they don't like the shit you're doing,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: if they think that you don't know what you're doing,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: if they don't respect you, they're going to mutinate, Right,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: That's what's going to happen. They're going to take over.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Someone else's going to become captain. That's how this works, right,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: And his crew would have mutinied, they did not, So
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: he's gaining a reputation and people are just kind of like, ah,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: he's out there being a privateer. Good for him and
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: his family start making their way to the Caribbean. And
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: this is what sixteen sixty five, sixteen sixty six, and
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: you know, he does the thing that is classy if
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: you're rich, trashy if you're poor, marrying your cousin. I mean, ah,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: he was into more than one type of booty. Listen,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: he didn't actually have any kids with his cousin, Like,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: there weren't any children from this marriage. So yeah, I'm
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: not sure he was really into potty, Like, there's no
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: sort of documentation regarding that. Maybe he wasn't into sex.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Maybe he was just into like pillaging. AnyWho. Seriously, though,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: this is actually a really smart move because his uncle,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Colonel Edward Morgan, like I said, he was a seman,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: so he had moved to Jamaica with his family and
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: he was made the Deputy Governor of Jamaica. So he's
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: like upper class now, right, So this ensued that Captain
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Morgan had friends in high places, and these connections with
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: the upper echelons of Jamaican society was solidified when he
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: married his cousin Mary Elizabeth Morgan. I mean, at least
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: she didn't have to worry about changing a sun name though,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: I feel like less paperwork, that's nice. Anyway, he gets
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: quite pally with Colonel Thomas Modyford, which is handy because
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: the very year that Edward Morgan is named Deputy Governor,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: he dies and Thomas Middleford he is his replacement on Mordiford.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Here he names Captain Henry Morgan, Colonel of the Port
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Royal Militia. And it's round about this time as well
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: that Captain Morgan purchases his first plantation in Jamaica. He
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: would go on to own three. He has plantations, he
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: has slaves, like to be clear, Captain Henry Morgan was
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: very much a man of his era, right, he had slaves,
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: he had plantations. He really really liked money. Okay, so ah,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: the swashbuckling adventuring aside, It would be weird if I
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: didn't mention this because a lot of his like pirate booties.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: So he would take a portion of like treasures and
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: trade and whatever, and he would use that to purchase
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: things like plantations. Like he invested his pirating money so
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: that he could then make more money. Like that's it's
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: weird that that's his honest income. But yeah, he purchased
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: his first plantation. Now, Captain Morgan served in the Port
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Royal Militia as a captain before, but now he's advanced
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: in rank and he's commanding it. And the deputy governor
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: issued him a letter of mark against the Spanish. Now
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: remember this letter of mark allowed him to attack Spanish vessels, fleets,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: et etc. It did not approve any raids on land.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: This is important like now and in the next episode anyway,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: as it so happens around about the same time as
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: this is going on, these pirates called the Brethren of
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: the Coast. Like, I mean, that's actually a pretty cool name.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: We are the Brethren of the Coast. I mean, when
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: you're a professional pirate, you'll be honest, brave, and free.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Are the soul of do something. Anyway, So these Brethren
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: of the Coast, they were in need of an admiral
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: because they lost there somehow, maybe to dysentery, maybe to
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: something else, who's to say. Naturally, being a big lover
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: of booty, he accepts the position and now well, now
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: he has an entire fleet of buccaneals under his admiralty.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: So now he's Admiral Morgan. So his reputation certainly preceded him,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: and he's seen as the king of buccaneals. And he
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: is fucking loving it, by the way, like he uses
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: his privateer fleet because again he's got his letter remark.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: He uses this to attack the Spanish, and even though
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: he's not supposed to attack land, he's gonna do it anyway. Right,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: The audacity is not new, lads, it's not you like,
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: it's been a round quite a will. He considers attacking
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: the very heavily fortified city of Havana, but realizes that
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: on the scale of zero to invading Russia in the winter,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: this is attacking a Caribbean fortress within not enough men
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: mm hmm. And so he chooses a new target, that
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: of Puerto Principally, which, by the way, this was this
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: is a total shit show. So here's the thing. They're
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: on the ship, they're planning their attacks. They're laying out
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: all the detailed schemes, you know, the backup plan, the
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: whole lot, all in front of a Spanish prisoner. They're
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: doing it in front of this guy. Why why would
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: you be doing it in front of the prisoners anyway, Like,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: clearly you should be doing this private. I'm not again,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: i am not teaching people how to rob effectively. I'm
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: just saying you could be smarter. So, of course, not
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: one person considered that, maybe, just maybe, it was possible
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: that the aforementioned prisoner could speak English. Spoiler alert, he
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: did so. When the ship got to a bay, which
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: is like near Pertle Puntepey, the aforementioned English speaking Spanish
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: prisoner escaped. He swam to shore and warned everyone of
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: the attack. So the governor gets notified and he sends
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: messengers through the street and they are preparing for the attack.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: The entire town is woken up and they're telling people
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: to go hide their valuables. So when the pirates attack
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: the town, not only are they fa with resistance that
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: they weren't expecting. This battle lasts four hours. Now the
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Spanish they are absolutely bollocked right there. They are, I
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: don't want to say annihilated, but they are pretty beaten
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: down by this pirate crew. And eventually the pirates demand
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: a surrender or they will burn the town to the ground.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: You would be surprised how many how many solutions. There
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: are two problems that involve arson, So they're like, we're
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: gonna do that, but also we are going to viciously
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: kill all of the women and children in Puerto Principe
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: in front of all of you if you don't surrender.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: So the Spanish surrendered. They had suffered heavy losses, and
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: then the Buccaneers had like barely any looked like there
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: wasn't a lot of return for the amount of effort
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: that had been put in here, So they decided to
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: lock the Spanish in their churches and then they decided
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: they were going to try and like search the town,
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: so they plundered. They were trying to find like valuables
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: and whatnot, but most of them had already been removed
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: from the town and hidden away. So yeah, there was
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: very little reward for this outrecked act of illegal piracy. Unsurprisingly,
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: Captain Morgan is pissed, so he decides that he's going
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: to starve the prisoners locked in the churches and then
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: then the pirates torture them. This may shock you, but
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: pirates were not exactly the most patient of people, and
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: so they're like, this is bullshit, and they give the
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: Spaniards an ultimatum, provide two ransoms or suffer, right, that's it.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: That's that's the ultimatum. If they paid these ransoms, they'd
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: be fine. So like they're the two ransoms are the
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: one for the town and one for their lives. So
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: if they, you know, paid the ransom for their life,
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: then the town would be burnt to ash before their eyes.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: If they didn't pay any ransom, the town will be
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: set a blaze and the prisoners would either be killed
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: or taken to Jamaica and sold off as slaves. Yeah,
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: these guys will not fucking about. So four prisoners they
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: offer to go find the hidden goods and valuables, and
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: they're like, there's some people who've run away with some
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: of the goods as well, like they've gone. We'll find them,
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: you know, and we'll bring them back. And these guys
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: are warned. They're like, listen, if you don't return, there's
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: gonna be so much death, like the streets will be
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: red with blood, and we will kindly remember of your family.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: We're going to destroy everything and you will come back
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: to blood and ash. And so they're out there for
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: a couple of days and they come back empty handed. Right,
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: They're like, we couldn't find it. But they play with
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: Captain Morgan to give them fifteen days, which is an
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: oddly specific number, and they're like, we will pay you
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: the whole shebang fifteen days. And he's like, you know what, yeah,
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: why not? Sure? It is like I'm here now, like
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: I may as well like wait, And so these presenters
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: they go away and they come back within the agreed
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: time frame and they bring with them a sweet sweet
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: junk of booty and even more prisoners. Right, they're like,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: we found these guys hiding and we brought this, and
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: we brought this, hooray. And so the pirates obviously they search,
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: you know, all the presidents, just in case they've got
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: anything else hidden on them, like maybe some valuables, maybe
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: something else, and they do so as they're searching, they
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: find a letter from the governor of Santiago, who tells
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: them to drag it out, you know, as long as
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: they can, so that they can send reinforcements to fight
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: the pirates. So Henry Morgan he is reading this letter,
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: and he is not a happy bunny, right, He is angry,
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: and so he orders all of the treasure to be
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: put on the ships, and then he tells the prisoners
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: that they have one day to pay their ransoms, right,
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: like you got one day or else. And the Spanish
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: are they're begging for more time, but he is so
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: done at this point that he's just like, no, I
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: can't give you any more time. I'm absolutely done with
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: this whole thing, and like to the point like he's
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: so fucked off with his whole scenario that he just
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: takes five hundred cows with him, like I shit you not.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: They're like, well, we don't have money. I got these cows, though,
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: I get five hundred counts and he's like, I guess
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: I could eat, you know, And so it's cool there.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: And they're cutting up the couts, right because they're just
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: like divvy and stuff up and they're figuring out what
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: we're going to do. So well, this is happening. Two
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: crew members get into a fight, one French, one English, right,
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: and they challenge each other to a duel, which is
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: supposed to be a fair fight. But when they get
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: to the meeting point to do the duel, right, the
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: English fella stabs the French guy literally in the back
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: right in another French when he wants revenge, and it's
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: a whole thing. Captain Morgan does not allow insurrection amongst
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: his ranks. A fair fight is fair, a challenge with
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: honor is fine. But this stabbing in the back bullshit,
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: absolutely not. So the Englishman he's viewed as treacherous, right,
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: this is this is dodgy behavior, and so he's putting
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: chains and he was to be hanged in Jamaica, like
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: that's the goal. Being brought back to Jamaica is going
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: to get hanged because you know, so what you did
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: And as far as reds go. This was piss pool
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: fifty thousand pieces of eight and five hundred cows, which
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: not really that much when you have to consider it
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: has to be shared between seven hundred or so men.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: Now Morgan, obviously he thinks it would be best to
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: attack another tip, you know, to try and reap some
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: more rewards, you know, make up for the loss. But
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: the French ships that were part of this fleet, they
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: they weren't keen on this idea, and they went their
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: separate ways. But it was like a totally cool separation,
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: like no harm, no fill. They were like, we were
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: kind of done now, no worries. And so Captain Morgan
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: takes you know, the remaining fleet and they returned to
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Port Royal, where he had the English crew member hanged
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: because you know, he was severe, but he was true
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: to his world.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: So he's lost a good chunk of his fleet thanks
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: to the whole backstabbing incident. But of course he wants
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: more booty, because of course he does. And like he's
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: lost what thirty percent of his crew, but he's still like,
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: let's go bigger and better, Like he's chasing that next
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: that next sort of raid, like an adrenaline junkie, but
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: like for pirrating. So it's what sixteen sixty eight at
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: this point, and the fleet sets sail to where well
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: Captain Morgan had learned his lesson about talking about his
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: plans in front of people, so his fight. They're following
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: his lead and they get close to Costa Rica and
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: he tells his captains his plan to pillog the town
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: of Portobello under the cover of darkness. And he tells
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: them that he wants to steal every damn valuable from
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: this frankly massive city. His this pride, is this ego,
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: Is this just like the whole thing of gambling, Like
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: you're just chasing that next rush? Is it like a
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: dopamine thing for him? Now his captains they question this
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: very audacious plan because, to put it simply, they do
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: not have enough men. But Henry Morgan he's just like
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: less men means less people to share treasure with, Like
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: he is so self assured, like he genuinely doesn't believe
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: that they can fail. And here's the thing. Portobello is
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: not a place you want to fuck with, like apart
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: from Havana and Carthagena, Like no, no, like like it
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: was the strongest place owned by Spain in the West Indies. Right,
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: This would be a challenge for any fleet, let alone
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: one much reduced. Not only was the very entrance to
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: the city guarded by two castles, there were many more
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: inside the city for people to shelter in if there
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: was an attack. So you've got four hundred families they
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: were thereabouts residing in this ridiculously well fortified city, along
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: with a garrison of about three hundred soldiers. Right. He
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: he's only got about four hundred and sixty men. Right.
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: Those numbers are not good. This is not an easy
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: pillowge and plunder scenario. But Captain Morgan clearly has something
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: to prove, and so they decide to be sneaky decay
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: about it, and they carefully head up river. They transfer
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: from the ships into smaller boats and even like canoes.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: There's like twenty three of them all in all, because
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: they don't want to be noticed. They make it to land.
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: They reach the guard post, the first one. It is
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: manned by a single guard who they very quickly overpower,
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: question and bring with them. It's by the time they
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: get to that sort of first point, it's sort of
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: early hours of the morning, like it's still nighttime, but
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: it's that kind of time. So he's telling them all
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: about the city and how to maneuver it like. And
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: so when they get to the castles at the entrance
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: of the city, they line up against the castle walls,
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: you know, as not to be seen. And then the
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: guard they've captured, right, Morgan orders him to call into
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: the castle and tell the soldiers within to surrender or
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: they'll be cut into pieces with no mercy. And so
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: he shouts in and says the thing, and instead of
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: surrendering the Spanish Garsen just starts shooting at the pirates
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: and this fight starts, but it is over fairly quickly
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: because inside the castles there were explosives. Right. It's like
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: this clay pot which we set alight and thrown kind
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: of like an old timey grenade. Right, So what they
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: would do is they would infiltrate the cale and take
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: it from inside. So then when the pirates were in,
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: you know, they did what they threatened to do, which
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: was slice up the Spanish. Now they didn't dice everyone
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: because they didn't have time for that. Instead, the remaining
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: soldiers were locked in a small room in this castle
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: that is full of old timy grenades and gunpowder. So
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: on the way out they set it a light and
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: it goes boom. This not the most subtle of moves
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: and does not go unnoticed by the people in the city.
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: The citizens are just like chucking valuables into wells, the
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: hide and shit, because you know, massive explosion has happened
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: and they don't want to lose everything they have. And
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: the governor could not do shit, right, he's trying to
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: rally troops, he's trying to rally people. He cannot do either.
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: And so like Prince's peach, he runs off to another castle.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: And the pirates are absolutely well pillaging the shit out
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: of Puerto Bello. Right, they were on our twelve So
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: like there are twelve hours of plundering, How are they
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: not tired? Exactly? Like there's a lot to say for adrenaline.
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: And so even though they had looted a lot of stuff,
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: they knew that there were higher classes and the governor
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: they were all hiding in these other castles in the city.
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: Naturally they assumed a whole lot of that treasure would
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: be in there with them. So Captain Morgan takes a
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: small force to attack the governor's castle, and a few
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: other teams. Like they split up, right, and they go attack.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: Now the governor's castle is so well guarded that they
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: beat back Morgan and his men. Meanwhile, Captain Morgan saw
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: that the other castles were being taken by his crew
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: because they were raising the flax. And I think his
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: eagle got the best of him here because he's just
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: infused with I don't know if rage is the right word,
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: but definitely a terrible, horrible, horrible idea. He gets one
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: of his men to round up as many religious men
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: and women as he could find. Super Catholic Spain, remember
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: very religious, So he's got nuns, priests, monks, anybody he
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: can get his hands on. Right, He gets the crew
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: to make twelve ladders that were wide enough that they
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: could hold three other people at a time, so they
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: could climb three or four at a time. So these ladders
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: were placed up against the castle walls and he makes
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: these you know, religious men and women climb up gently,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: followed by his pirate crew. So he makes the assumption
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: that the governor of super Catholic Spain, I mean one
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: that he wouldn't fire on his own people, and he
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: especially would not fire on people who had taken religious orders, right,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: he couldn't shoot men and women of God, Like that's
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: just a no brainer, right, he assumed incorrectly. So all
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: of the nuns, priests, whatever, climbing up the ladder, they
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: were fired upon, and they are begging and pleading, but
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: to no avail. Right, They're begging the governor to just
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: stop firing, but he is just killing everyone. The pirates
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: climb up after all of these like religious people, like
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: they're using them as human shields effectively, So they get
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: up and they overpower the castle. All of the Spanish
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: soldiers surrendered right straight away, no no issue. The governor
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: was so pissed that he shoots at them and he
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: kills some of his own soldiers. The pirates offer him
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: the chance to surrender, and he tells them he'd rather die,
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: and so they kill him. So, yeah, the city is
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: now under the power of the pirates and they're just
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: living it up like they've been doing this for what
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: a whole day, Nearly they're tired, they're you know, they
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: relax and be killed everything inside, have a party. They
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: spend the next fortnite in Portobello drinking feasting and just
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: having a damn good time. They've earned this, and Captain Morgan,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: who loved a good ransom, demands one hundred thousand pieces
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: of eight from the city, and so they send two
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: men over to the city of Panama like pre Canal
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: fame by the way, and they're like, go get your money.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: So these guys they tell the President of Panama about
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: the attack, and so he gathers a force right to
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: deal with the pirates, But first he sends a letter
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: to Captain Morgan warning him that if the pirates do
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: not get the heck at a dodge, they will receive
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: no mercy. But Captain Morgan, a man with balls so
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: big that you'd think he had elephant titus of the scrotum,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: he responds with the threat that if he doesn't get
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: his money, he's going to burn Porto Bello to the
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: fucking ground and he'll go once he has his damn money.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: So the President of Panama just pays it. Not only
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: does he pay the ransom, but he like he's writing
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: his letters and he's like, hey, how did you take
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: the city with so few men? And Captain Morgan responds
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: by sending him a pistol with a not telling him
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: to watch over it and you'll soon come to Panama
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: to collect it. The President sends the pistol back because
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: this is the least fun pen pal he has, and
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: warns him that Panama would not be as favorable to
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: him as Porto Bello had been. The President also had
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: massive balls because Captain Morgan was not a man to
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: be trifled with. But they have little booty, and so
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: they would turn to Jamaica. Now, these fellows, like their
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: money is shared, they get their pay whatever he's investing
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: in his plantations. So these pirates, right, these privateers, they
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: spend every single one of the two hundred and fifty
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: thousand pieces of eight. Okay, like it doesn't take them long.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: It's like two weeks, three weeks, a week. It's a
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: few weeks. And these big spenders are on the lookout
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: for their next adventure. But that's gonna be for next time.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: Ooh yeah, I'm stopping it here because we have more
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: to talk about. So I'm gonna make that into another episode,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: which you're going to get very soon if you don't
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: already have it. So that is the story of half
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: the story of Captain Morgan is it. It's gonna get worse.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: It's gonna get worse now oh I oh goodness, I
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: didn't tell y'all. I I'm in Belfast and the first
• 1:05:11
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• 1:05:14
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• 1:05:18
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• 1:05:24
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• 1:05:28
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• 1:05:31
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• 1:05:35
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• 1:05:38
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• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: to share with you at the end of the show. Yeah,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: I'm so excited to have like a month of pirates
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: because it's just a really fun era. It's a really
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: fun era to talk about. Although what I've noticed is
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: some people have such an issue the term of the
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: Golden Age of piracy. I'm like, that's just what it's called.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: It's like, can we call things the Victorian period or
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: the Gilded Age or whatever? It's just a name we
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: give things. It's fine, don't for care about it. But yeah,
• 1:06:14
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