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According to Stephen Snelders, in his history of piracy, the Spanish reports of Morgan's raids do not refer to torture being practiced on the residents of Porto Bello or Gibraltar — although there are reliable reports that it was carried out in Panama. In doing so, he was acting as a reserve naval force for the English government in the defence of Jamaica. City of Abandoned Ships. In the Seagram Company started manufacturing the Captain Morgan brand of rum , named after the privateer. In the Captain Morgan brand was sold to Diageo , the multinational drinks company based in London.
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The economist Peter Leeson believes that pirates and privateers were generally shrewd businessmen, far removed from the modern, romanticised view of them as murderous tyrants. Galvin and the historian Kris Lane separately see Morgan as obtaining wealth to become a member of the landed gentry ; [] [] Galvin wrote that Morgan showed "social mobility through self-interested acts of outlawry, political wiles, and business acumen".
He was a planner, a brilliant military strategist and intensely loyal to the king, to England and to Jamaica. But unlike so many of the Brethren, he was flexible and adaptable, able to see that the future for Jamaica lay not in plunder or pillage but in peaceful trade. He was also an adept politician and held office longer than any of the governors of his time.
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Captain Morgan in popular culture. Since the early 20th century it has been administered as a Welsh county. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Admiral Sir Henry Morgan: The Greatest Buccaneer of them all. Dawdy and Bonni define buccaneers as "originally castaway colonists usually French or English on Hispanio from French who survived by hunting or raising livestock", [8] although the historian Jon Latimer observes that the terms pirate and buccaneer have been interchangeable in English since the 17th century.
He instructed the governor of Jamaica, Lord Windsor , to put military pressure on the Spaniards in order to retain the English presence in the region. In the late 17th century the peso was worth between five and six shillings. Breverton states that Morgan commanded a fleet of 36 English and French ships carrying more than 1, privateers; [71] Pope gives the figures of 36 ships and 1, men; [42] Thomas writes that it was 37 ships with "2, fighting men, beside mariners and boys"; [72] while Zahedieh and Cordingly separately put the figures at 38 ships with 2, men.
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