ADMIRAL SIR HENRY MORGAN

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Sir Henry Morgan, was a brilliant tactician and piratical businessman, able to command the loyalty of privateers, who followed him into battle.

Admiral Sir Henry Morgan started out life as an able seaman, then turned his nautical skills to plundering ships laden with booty.

Sir Henry Morgan was born is 1635 at Llanrhymney, Glamorgan [now Cardiff], Wales, He died of a heart attack on August 25, 1688, at Lawrencefield, Jamaica, and was buried in the cemetary at Palisodes, Port Royal. The Welsh buccaneer was one of the most famous of the adventurers who plundered Spain’s Caribbean colonies during the late 17th century. Operating with the unofficial support of the English government, he undermined Spanish authority in the West Indies.

During the second Anglo-Dutch War (1665–67), he was second in command of the buccaneers operating against Dutch colonies in the Caribbean.

As the selected commander of the buccaneers in 1668, Morgan quickly captured Puerto Príncipe (now Camagüey), Cuba, and—in an extraordinarily daring move - stormed and sacked the well-fortified city of Portobelo on the Isthmus of Panama. In 1669 he made a successful raid on wealthy Spanish settlements around Lake Maracaibo on the coast of Venezuela. Finally, in August 1670, with 36 ships and nearly 2,000 buccaneers, Morgan set out to capture Panamá, one of the chief cities of Spain’s American empire. Crossing the Isthmus of Panama, he defeated a large Spanish force (January 18, 1671) and entered the city, which burned to the ground while his men were looting it. On the return journey he deserted his followers and absconded with most of the booty.

This significant haul of gold, was never recovered. Morgan did not immediately need the money and needed to hide it for later recovery, since there was no such thing as banks for pirates in those days. Then, as Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica, he started to make significant profits from his sugar cane plantations and distilling rum.

Because Morgan’s raid on Panamá had taken place after the conclusion of a peace between England and Spain, he was arrested and transported to London (April 1672). Nevertheless, relations with Spain quickly deteriorated, and in 1674 King Charles II knighted Morgan and sent him out again as deputy governor of Jamaica, where he lived as a wealthy and respected planter until his death.

The Admiral, although only 52, realized that we was too old and unfit to recover his stash of gold, undeclared to the British, thus left instructions to be buried in a coffin made of lignum vitae, wherein he had secret compartment built in, with clues to the location of the stolen Spanish gold. he also left a parchment as part of his Will, with additional clues, copies of which were lodged with his scribe and estate manager. Not before time, he suffered a heart attack on August 25th 1688 aged 53 brought on by acute alcoholism and obesity.

The parchments though, went missing, ending with Edward Teach (Blackbeard) acquiring one of the documents, though the parchment on its own was not enough for Blackbeard to recover the lost treasure.

Blackbeard knew he'd probably find the additional clues with Henry Morgan's corpse. Something for him to tend to when more settled. But took this secret with him to the grave. Cursing Lieutenant Robert Maynard and his descendants, for his torture and murder.

Only gold, silver and gemstones were worth anything to captains of old. The currency was easy to trade and did not corrode, so ideal to be secreted in the most inhospitable environments.

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