Henry Morgan, (* approx. 1635 in Llanrhymny; "† 25 August 1688 in haven Royal) was one the most well-known English Freibeuter 17. Century.

Born as a son of a tenant or a basic owner in Wales, he took part starting from 1665 in robbery enterprises of English Freibeuter, which segelten from Jamaica against Spanish ships and addresses in the Karibik.

More intelligently than its comrades he squandered its booty portions not in taverns and with women, but saved, which he had won under employment of his life. Already soon it had the means and the credit-worthiness to accomplish cape down taking on one's own. 1668 it attacked in the middle of with knowledge and approval of the English governor of Jamaica, Sir Thomas Modyford, the city postage Bello. Here immense values at gold, silver, beads and jewels apart from large quantities of noble woods, Indigo and cocoa waited for the evacuation to Europe.

In the spring 1669 nearly 500 Freibeuter under Morgans command looked for the Spanish settlements Maracaibo and Gibraltar (both at the Maracaibosee in today's Venezuela) home. Also this mark was considerable the booty. In January 1671 Morgan the largest coup of its career succeeded. As more appointed "chief admiral of all Bukaniersflotten and Generalissimo of the united Freibeuter of America" he with approximately 2000 men drew the largest and richest address Spanish America on 36 ships against Panama, at that time. Under Morgans guidance the Piraten struck and occupied after a strenous nine-day foot march over the Isthmus a considerable majority of Spanish soldiers into the escape, and plundered the city. When much enrich man returned Morgan to Jamaica, became arrested and to England brought, because the English king had closed in the meantime a peace treaty with Spain.

In the year 1674 Henry Morgan was begnadigt and raised into the nobility and appointed the "lieutenant Governor" from Jamaica. As "lieutenant Governor" it prepared to protect immediately the coastal fortresses of haven Royal with the cannons of one its transport glider out around the port from Piraten. On this post and than "Custos OF haven Royal" and "Judge OF the High Court OF Vice Admiralty" made itself Sir Henry Morgan a name than unerbitterlicher adversary of the Piraten later and reads in such a way some its former robbery comrades to the distance brings.

Briefly before its death Henry Morgan of the drunkenness craze purged. In the few clear moments he asked God for assigning for his He returned a part of its booty, which he from the church in Panama and Maracaibo, to the church in haven Royal. Henry Morgan died on 25 August 1688 in haven Royal on Jamaica against 11.00 o'clock in the morning at the consequences of its drunkenness craze. As thanks for its earnings/services for the English crown he got a state funeral on haven Royal. In its will Henry Morgan asked its for future generations for assigning and documented all.

Henry Morgan may have been a highly gifted tactician, was however an awkward sailor. In its career as Freibeuter it won not one sea-combat, set three large transport gliders by navigational errors due to and lost a further by a explosion in the powder camp. Henry Morgan nevertheless was at most Pirat of the Karibik.

Today one is designated the most well-known Rumsorten after it: Captain Morgan. However this comes not from its Wahlheimat Jamaica, but into Puerto Rico is manufactured.

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