Pirates of the Caribbean The True Story

Sir Francis Drake

Drake’s “Golden Hind” Circumnavigation

Golden Hind defeats the Cacafuego

Careening the Golden Hind in Drakes Estero - July, 1579 Drake entered the Pacific Ocean through the Straits of Magellan, and began raiding the unsuspecting Spanish settlements on the west coast. In Callao, the port for Lima, he learned that the NUESTRA SEÑORA DE LA CONCEPCION, popularly known as the CACAFUEGO, had sailed thirteen days earlier with a cargo of twenty- six tons of silver bars, thirteen chests of silver coins, and eighty pounds of gold and jewels. Drake caught up to her two weeks later. The unsuspecting Spaniard allowed the GOLDEN HIND to sail right alongside, and a broadside of chain shot took out her mizzen, ending any resistance before it could begin. Drake transferred the treasure to the GOLDEN HIND and allowed the Spanish to go on their way. Drakes Estero is a shallow estuary on the coast of Drakes Bay, California, protected by a shifting sand bar and with a navigable entrance channel

Francis L’Olonnais “The Flail of the Spainards

Henry Morgan Probably not Henry Morgan

Henry Morgan July, 1668 Porto Bello, Panama : The Spanish shipped their treasure abroad from here and guarded it well with three forts and many soldiers. Henry Morgan employed a stealth tactic and arrived on the outskirts by canoe at night. The troops in the first two forts were quickly overtaken, but the third was well prepared. After two failed attempts, Morgan ordered priests and nuns to act as shields while his troops ascended the walls. The city was quickly taken and then subjected to a month of looting and torture. It was decided to hold the city for ransom of 350,000 pieces of eight, to which the governor of Panama responded with troops sent to retake the city. The troops were ambushed and the governor agreed to 100,000 pieces of eight, which brought the total loot to 250,000. Morgan returned to Jamaica, where his forces grew as quickly as his reputation did.

Blackbeard

Lt. Robert Maynard Slays Blackbeard

Blackbeard’s Head on Maynard’s Bowsprit

Bartholomew Roberts

Black Bart

Bartholomew Roberts

Anne Bonny

Mary Read

Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Calico Jack

Pirate Charles Vane and his parrot

Stede Bonnet

Calico Jack Rackham

Jolly Roger Jolly Roger may have been derived from the French for joli rouge which was bastardized by the English to Jolly Roger. Ali Raja, an Tamil Indian pirate with a red flag may have been changed to Olly Roger by the British. “Old Roger” was also slang for the devil in English. Pirate Flag of Christopher Moody

Captain Henry Morgan

Captain Jack Sparrow

Blunderbuss

Cannon

grenadoe

Boarding Axe

William Kidd in the Gibbet

Swivel Gun

“Pirate Compensation”

Chain Shot

Spanish Doubloon

Pieces of Eight

Cat-o-nine-tails For sailors serving under psychopathic or sadistic captains, life wasn’t just grim, it was often deadly. History is rife with accounts of captains having it in for a crewman and subsequently working them or beating him to death. The captain could have the man continuously running up and down the ratlines until, exhausted, he would lose his footing and fall to his death. Captains could order a sailor tied to a dangling rope secured to a mast. Death was caused by internal injures from slamming against the mast, sun exposure or starvation. The most common punishment onboard a ship was flogging. Blood Knots

Dead Men Tell No Tales Howard Pyle

Marooned Howard Pyle

Pirate Music

Long John Silver, John Hawkins, Captain Flint Treasure Island is a classic adventure story, featuring an ordinary boy, Jim Hawkins, who is transported to a treacherous world of pirates and buried treasure. Jim's adventures begin when he and his mother discover a pirate map in the chest of Billy Bones, a guest at their lodging-house. Robert Louis Stevenson

Robinson Crusoe Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Dafoe. It was first published in 1719, and is sometimes considered to be the first novel in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela.

Walk The Plank

Arrrgh Lego Pirates!

Dead Legos tell no tales!

Captain Hook