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