Ah, yes....Capt. Morgan....Evidently one of the best fighters the world has ever seen. Even 326 years after his death, he still managed to throw me head first into a deadbolt latch, knocking me unconscious and leaving me with thirteen stitches.
I find Morgan and Dampier to be extreemly interesting characters. The more I learn about them, the more I think a set of movies like what A&E did with the Hornblower books would be awesome. A movie on either would not do them justice, unless it was on a very specific part, like the Panama expidition for Morgan.
Other English heroes?! He was Welsh! Completely different culture and people. Wales was annexed to England by a Welsh bloodied King of England who gave them equal status as the English (they didn't just become English, it doesn't work like that). The Kingdom is now known as The Kingdom of England and Wales as of 1967.
history wise the welsh ARE english just not german, french or scandinavian because the welsh are the modern day decendants of celtic tribes forced west by germanic migrations
Great video as always. Lately, i developed an interest in music pirates might have enjoyed and the Instruments they played, espiacially because there is so much of wrong association. E.g. the concertina or even the akkordion almost always being used in „pirate music“ although they were invented about a century after the golden age of piracy.
Thank you for your post, it's a very interesting topic, and very true on the accordion. Pirates definitely had musicians aboard, there are mentions of them in accounts, and in some pirate codes. They would play for entertainment but also to strike fear into their enemies: it was part of vapouring(a scare/morale tactic). Horns and drums were the most common instruments. I imagine that flutes would have been popular too, due to their simplicity. Violins aren't farfetched either and if not at sea, definitely in seedy taverns.
@@GoldandGunpowder I grew up watching the Spanish version but here’s the English version: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gwEG8sEscBQ.html
If Ruari the Turbulent was still alive and Captain Henry Morgan, they would have argued amongst each other about being king of Buccaneers. Both men were successful pirate Buccaneers in there own way and time line in history, they also have similar thing's in common. Though you can't beat Captain Morgans Rum, by the sound of it he had a bad liver disease.
Back then, "Buccaneer" referred exclusively to pirate-privateers active in the Caribbean, that primarily operated on land and sacked cities. It wasn't a universal synonym for pirate. Morgan also HATED being called a buccaneer and would probably have been offended by this video.
Could you make a video about Roque Brasiliano? I know there is little information about him but it would be nice to have a video about the only known "Brazilian" pirate. Apart from that, great video!
One of many pirates: Captain Morgan there's too many of them, what are we going to do? Captain Sir Henry Morgan finds himself thinking hard, since Spain has sent many ships. Ghost of Sir Francis Drake to Sir Henry Morgan, with the force theme being played by a tone deaf pirate: Use the flame ship, young Morgan.
Always fun to watch your videos and so informative mate! I know the image of Captain Morgan on the rum bottle isn't historically accurate but I like the look of that version anyways! Lol! Diageo does a lot of great marketing of the exploits of Captain Morgan with rums & bottles that are unique. I have a bottle of Captain Morgan 1671 Rum that commemorates the loss of his ship "The Satisfaction" at the battle of Panama. The bottle design loosely reflects the time period too. Morgan's grave site is somewhere down in the briny deep in the ruins of Port Royal. Who knows, his grave site might be found one day! I do think though he would be more obscure to the general public historically if he wasn't marketed by the Rum company. I'm traveling to Jamaica in December but I'll be on the north coast not the south coast. Still I usually raise a glass of rum to Morgan and all the pirates that called Jamaica home!
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against the rum brand. I've never heard about Morgan ever having a ship named "The Satisfaction" or losing any ships at Panama. His fleet that sailed to Panama were unarmed, open-decked sailboats no bigger than barks or piraguas. No seacraft took part at the battle of Panama which was a land battle. Panama wasn't even located on the Caribbean coast of the Isthmus.
@@GoldandGunpowder The archeologists from Texas State University found the what is believed to be the wreck of the ship “at the mouth of the Chagres River. It was supposedly his flag ship The Satisfaction. This discovery was back 2011. I think that is why the rum company came out with rum bottle! Lol!
7:00 just a little more info about the explosion: Morgan and his Lieutenants had a Junta aka counsel of war off Ile Vache near modern day Haiti before their raid. afterwards, they had a massive dinner and kept drinking. One of his stewards went below to fetch more wine on Morgans orders. LIT torch in one hand, he went into the rum store... but it was the powder magazine. he most likely panicked (completely drunk) and dropped the torch. 6 men survived out of 80 or so, Morgan among them.
This is something I have always wondered, but I've never managed to find any info on this. On the bigger ships there are even 3 of those really luxurious decks on the stern of the ship. I figure that at least one must the captain's quarters, but what about all those other ones? They can't all be for the captain, that would be quite a waste of space, right? Also, love the videos, quite a shame you don't have as many viewers as you deserve - yet anyway :D
Could you do a video dispelling common minor pirate myths (like the myth that golden age pirates sang sea shanties or the idea that every pirate flag was the skull and crossbones and the bullshit about the "pirate code"), or a video at one point comparing Golden Age piracy with modern piracy and the similarities/differences between golden age pirates and modern piracy (other than the obvious technology gap)?
I have videos on the skull and xbones and pirate code, but I will most likely remake them in the future. Other than that I want to cover less-known history rather than playing whack-a-mole with myths, which I don't find very interesting. I don't intend to cover modern piracy either. Piracy in the colonies during the 1630-1730 timespan was so exclusive in world history compared to pirates in other periods, in the society they built, how they impacted history, and how the societal view of them changed. That and I don't know much about modern pirates either
@@GoldandGunpowder Thank you. Something I find interesting about colonial and Caribbean piracy is how it relates to the American mindset down the road leading up to the American revolution. Even though the American revolution didn't start up until 40 years after the Golden Age ended it shows how far back the idea of "independence" actually goes. For example, the colonies were already growing more distant from the crown by 1700 as the crown became more invested in India and dealing with France and Spain. The Caribbean and American colonial region was a wild frontier at the time where the ideas of self-governance actually began to take root, a lot of times pirates were able to have more power in a region than a governor or other crown-appointed official with little to no resistance simply because the average person could care less and enterprises often felt like they got better deals from the pirates than the "official" merchants. Raiding ships in the Caribbean and selling the goods in the colonies up north was a very profitable endeavor at the time. Even though the golden age was not at all a direct influencer of the revolution the "distant" mindset that allowed the Golden Age to occur eventually also allowed the American Revolution to occur decades later. I think it's telling how different pirates are seen in the modern US and UK. The US likes to view pirates as free-spirited rogues resisting tyranny while the UK likes to view them as bands of horrific brutish savages. Of course neither interpretation is historically correct, but these interpretations do show the long-term sociocultural influence and imprint the Golden Age had overall on the Atlantic world going forward. Hell, many major cities on the US East Coast take pride in the fact they had "their pirate guy" back in the colonial days and if American media features a pirate he's usually the hero, and if it's British media he's usually the villain.
Spaniards on Hispaniola: "Ha haha! I love bullying Tanios!" Captain Henry Morgan: "Your turn!" Spaniards: "This isn't fair! What did we ever do to deserve this!"
Its funny how Exquemelin calling Morgan a commoner is seen as a defamatory insult. Obviously that would have been the view then, but from a modern perspective I see nothing particularly admirable about the aristocracy of them- on the whole, a pack of slave holding tyrants enjoying wealth and privilege at the expense of those they deemed beneath them. None of which detracts from Morgan's skill as a commander, which even Exquemelin acknowledged. Edit: Also I wouldn't dismiss the rape allegation so quickly. That story might well be false, but given the low conviction rates for rape even in the modern day, the long history of rape of captured populations in war, and how different attitudes toward sex and consent were then, I'd honestly be surprised if the average buccaneer wasn't a rapist. Unfortunately, there may not be any way to say for sure here. We don't even have the account of the alleged victim, or their name. All we have is the word of one of Morgan's subordinates against the word of another.
We can assume all we want, I don't like to assume. Based on what I know of the 17th century view on rape and sex, and Henry Morgan, and other buccaneers, I can say that it was a common enough(though not as common as we might think) occurance amongst buccaneers in general, but that Morgan had intentions against it. Considering his humane track record and behaviour in personal life, evidence points against it. This isn't very strange, military forces of the time often had strict moral codes on behaviour towards prisoners and occupied populations, even if these codes broke down during prolonged campaigns or during fierce civilian resistance.
I highly recommend covering Morgan's assault on Panama. There's some fascinating tactical discussion, covering pirate Wheelock muskets (Not matchlocks) And the actual assault is frankly breathtaking. Alexander Exquemelin is a fascinating if sometimes untrustworthy Morgan primary source. I highly recommend "Empire of Blue Water" by Talty If you haven't read it.
