Henry Morgan
Welsh pirate (1635-1688)
- Fame59.3
- Momentum4.3
- Politicians rank#129
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- Fame59.3
- Momentum4.3
- Politicians rank#129
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Lived 1631–1688, aged 57United Kingdom
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Updated 2026-06-08
A Welsh privateer who turned Spanish colonial plunder into Jamaican sugar estates, then became the lieutenant governor of the island he'd used as a raiding base. The line between pirate and statesman was whatever England needed it to be.
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Born around 1635 in Monmouthshire, Morgan's path to the Caribbean remains unclear — he likely sailed with Christopher Myngs's raiders during the Anglo-Spanish War in the late 1650s. As tensions flared in 1667, Jamaica's governor handed him a letter of marque, and Morgan moved through the Spanish Main methodically: Puerto del Príncipe, Porto Bello, then Maracaibo and Gibraltar in 1668, where he destroyed a Spanish squadron on his way out. In 1671 he crossed the Panamanian jungle and sacked Panama City from the Pacific side, a raid that violated a freshly signed peace treaty and got him arrested…
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