Henry Morgan was born in 1635. His early life remains a mystery as well as some information of his parents. He was highly recognized and remembered because of all the battles he won. Henry Morgan was a remarkable leader and a fearful conqueror. Sir Henry own his own plantation, he owned a large amount of slaves and was married to his wife, Mary Elizabeth. He was also known for having the strongest troops and for his prosperity. Morgan was a Welsh privateer. He did not consider himself as a buccaneer nor a pirate as he felt like that was an insult for his position.

     His attack against the coast of Yucatan peninsula and rich town, Granada in Central America bought him great wealth as well as a great reputation. Making this the start of everything big after. He was raised on a farm but different stories on why he moved away from where he was raised. In Buccaneers and Pirates, it states how he was born in a farm, but he never liked the "farm life", he always wanted to leave. He did as a young man, he found out a ship was leaving and since he had no money, he sold himself to an agent for three years meaning he'd have to work on plantations.

      In the book, Under the black, it never mentions how he grew up on farm or his background. In that story, they did mention how he had two uncles who were higher end soldiers whom he saw as his inspiration. He joined the English army and built his reputation off of that. One of his most noble accomplishment would be his attack towards panama. From this attack, he gained a bigger reputation as well as wealth. He learned his military achievements from his life experiments as well as those who went before him. For that reason, the Spanish lost over hundreds of men during the fight unlike the privateers who only lost less than 20 men.

       After the battle against panama, he returned home but as soon as he arrived, he was arrested for invading panama because the English and Spanish had a peace treaty, but he was still treated as a hero. He was even elected to be the lieutenant governor of Jamaica because the current governor of the time, was not doing a good job.   He served on the Assembly of Jamaica until 1683. He ended up dying of excessive drinking causing cirrhosis of the liver damage. Sir Henry Morgan remained popular since he died and even was labeled on a ram bottle. Once word went around about henry’s death, they ordered a state funeral, and laid his body at the King’s house.

       They can pay his respects, they even allowed privateers to pay their respects without being afraid of being arrested.  In June 1692, an earthquake strike causing two-third of the town even the part of the city in which Henry Morgan was buried fall into the sea, they never recovered his body.


Citations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morgan

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a350055.pdf

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          I imagine looking for gold must have been hard for pirates when there was so many trying to look for it to and would kill to get what they want. In this case we can use Francis Drake, he would do anything for his treasure for example, Nombre de Dios lies in the corner of a bay on the Isthmus of Panama. Around 1570s was when it was known as the principal treasure port on the Spanish Main, which curves around the Southern rim of the Caribbean Sea. Francis Drake disguised as a Spanish merchant to inspect the harbor. During his inspection, he noticed King's treasure-house.
            Around July 1572, he returned with two small ships Pasco and Swam including 73 men. He ended up having to spit his men into two. They ended up shooting him in the leg but overall, he was able to become a rich man laying his hands on fifteen tons of ingots and 100000 in gold coins.

The port became really important to Francis Drake because it provided him with a lot of goods.

Another port that he did invade would be a place called “a house of crosses”, where they found no gold, but they did find a house full of rich merchandise of various kinds.
         
I don’t think it was a major port for them, but it did benefit him in some way. He went to a port called cacafuego in which he hit jackpot; it took his crew six days to take all the treasure onto the ship. He then returned to England to meet with the Queen and She ended up spitting it with herself, him and his crew whom he would separate and divide.

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Majority of the movies now and days use characters that in real life are the worst human being ever in other words, myths. They make up things about a certain person or thing and make the complete opposite of it. If in real life, the character is really nice, in movies they’ll jump and make them really mean. For example, pirates. Pirates have so many myths behind them like how they act towards people, how they normally act, how they dress and such. Even the ones we think are too good to be true end up coming out to be true.

                In the book, Under The black flag, the author names multiple myths. For example, walking the plank like how they show in majority of the movies now and days. Pirates did not like wasting their time in such thing so they’d just kill them immediately no twist to it. In movies, the pirates would bury their treasure so that no one would try to sell them but that in fact is a myth because in the book, it states how the pirates would actually wear all their treasure if they could.

                We see them as a romance character or find them humorous when in fact, they were cruel criminals.  Pirates cut out a heart and ate it yet we still find them as a figure it’s not. They even nailed a man’s feet with large nails onto the floor and then continued to beat him till he threw up blood. “romantic” right? Pirates didn’t try to make anyone fall in love with them, if they like, they steal like they did with Miss. Parker. Parrots, they are seen on the shoulders of a pirate in every movie, play, etc. But do you really think they will take their time to take care of one with love?