Amaro Pargo
Spanish corsair (1678–1747)
- Fame56.2
- Momentum15.0
- Business Professionals rank#89
- Fame56.2
- Momentum15.0
- Business Professionals rank#89
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SpainSpanish privateer who prowled the Cádiz-Caribbean corridor in the early 1700s, raiding British and Dutch merchant ships with enough success to earn the tag "Spain's Francis Drake" — though his countrymen knew him equally for bankrolling churches and feeding the poor.
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Amaro Rodríguez-Felipe y Tejera Machado was born on 3 May 1678 and made his name as both merchant and crown-sanctioned raider during the Golden Age of Piracy. He worked the Atlantic trade routes, hitting enemy cargo vessels while building a commercial empire of his own. The dual ledger defined him: he gave lavishly to religious causes and the destitute even as he seized ships under letters of marque. Spain recognized the service in 1725 with a declaration of Caballero hidalgo, then certified his nobility and granted royal arms two years later. He died on 4 October 1747, a privateer who'd earne…
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