Clase De Pirates

People say that history is always written by the winners. Examples of significant winners such as Alexander The Great who remains known as an amazing leader and hero despite the thousands of lives he claimed and horrendous acts he partook in. When two opposing conceptions battle one another, the one that comes out victorious is usually glorified and remembered while the conquered side is belittled. This is why we may never know the truth behind an enormous amount of important events or people. Henry Morgan would be a victim of this same saying being a part of a vast variety of facts and fictions detailing his background.  In both books “Buccaneers and Pirates” and “Under the Black Flag”, his origins are spoken with differing ideas causing conflict with each other. The novel “Buccaneers and Pirates” characterizes Henry Morgan’s parents as farmers, but he despised that type of lifestyle with such hate he went off on his own to pursue an alternative path of becoming a sailor. On the...

A pirate can be described as an individual who travels overseas in search of treasure or "booty" to steal. An enormous quantity of pirates have done justice to this description over time. Their journeys searching for such items have lead them to riches and to nothing at all. They would mostly search through seaports for such precious and high valued items. These seaports would hold high importance as they would give many pirates the name and respect in which they are in debt to. Seaports such as Nombre De Dios located in Panama would be a crucial port for figures like Francis Drake. Francis Drake was an Englishmen who was not exactly a pirate but committed plentiful amounts of piracy. The novel Under the Black Flag describes many of his adventures. One of his expeditions he had found himself on a raid to a small town of Venta Cruces after failing to acquire any treasures on his first raid. This turned out to be successful as the mule trains were holding a copious amount...