Big Trouble with Charlotte

ARRRRGHHHH!!!! What we have here a boy and young gal who works with that lousy Blackbeard!! Yup that is me on a ship with a random i have no clue about i only heard certain things about her. Such as she is young, she worked with Blackbeard and that she might be a pirate too. I have no clue what her real name is but i only heard that her name is Charlotte De Berry. Out of all the last names you can choose from why is Berry. I find that very weird but who cares i am surrounded by a bunch of pirates. All i did was take a time machine that i for sure thought it was fake. Turns out i am wrong because now i am on a ship surrounded by pirates and with a girl with a last name of berry. Still in shock of the situation i am currently in something was just clicking in my head about the name. Besides it being weird of course. Wait a minute did i not said something that she worked with Blackbeard. Oh my goodness i did and as everyone knows Blackbeard is one of the most well known pirates in the seven seas. This girl worked with him wait if i remember yeah she did and so that means.... Oh my goodness now i remember who Charlotte De Berry is. I do not remember too much because i sleep in language arts class all the time but i did pick up a little information about her and that was. She worked with Blackbeard at the age of 19 years old, She knows how to use daggers and Swords because of Blackbeard, she was attacked by Blackbeard's rival Captain Mundaca and she got her ship seized by him too because she was on her way to get some treasure and Blackbeard sent her. Thinking about the situation i am it is just me and her and the ship is currently being seized by these pirates and the main guy who is talking said young gal who worked with Blackbeard. That has to mean i am in the Situation of the ship being seized by Captain Mundaca. Oh my goodness out of all the days why did i have to let my big mouth do the talking and get me in this situation i am in right now this is the worst day ever!!!

Henry Morgan the captain

The guy Henry Morgan was one of the best well known buccaneers that everyone must have heard. Not only from the alcohol commercials that a lot of people must have heard from. However, Henry Morgan was one of England’s successful and notorious privateers and also captured Panama and burned it down too. Henry Morgan was in Panama once because he had to get Spanish prisoners from Cuba and decided to go to Panama. It led to him evacuating panama because of a large ransom that was paid for him to leave.

As you know from the history of buccaneers they do not like Spaniards. They do not like the Spaniards because they had to leave their homeland because the Spaniards invaded them and forced them to leave and ever since that day they were furious with the Spaniards. So Henry Morgan heard about that there were Spaniards in Panama and there were roughly about fifteen hundred infantry and Calvary. So since buccaneers hated the Spaniards they went ahead to fight them because for revenge basically.

Henry Morgan was very strategic and he split his group of people so one group will go into the forest and go ahead and will flank the Spaniards and the other group goes straight at the Spaniards and fight them. A very well strategic plan by Henry Morgan but it was for nothing because the Spaniards were untrained and attacked head on which already the lost battle for them. The Spaniards went ahead and rushed the front line to be cut down by gun fire and to be finished off by the group who was flanking them from the forest. The Spaniards being untrained led them to lose a battle against Henry Morgan and his men. After the battle was done Henry Morgan and his men went ahead and looted and took booty that exceeded about a hundred thousand pounds. Morgan went ahead and told his men to burn down the city and massacre everyone that was living there. It was one of the most barbarous acts by a British pirate against Spanish colonies in the Americas.

Since Morgan decided to destroy panama and kill all the Spaniards in panama too. This led to him being arrested because he violated a treaty that was by England and Spain. So when he was arrested he remained in England because it was said that Morgan had no clue of the treaty that Spain and England had together he just went ahead and attacked because he thought that the Spaniards were bad people and he had to fight them for the land and all of their goods they had. Soon to find out that Morgan was actually telling the truth that he had no clue that England and Spain had a treaty together so they went ahead and let him go free and they knighted Morgan. Then to end all this off Morgan went ahead and went to Jamaica when he became the Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica. Henry Morgan is a very Strategic person but still carries of the most barbarous act for an English pirate.

Which is it Heroes or Villains???

Buccaneers are kind like heroes because they are getting revenge on the Spaniards for getting them removed off their island so it seems like the Spaniards are the villains right now. The Island of Hispaniola is the land where the buccaneers are from.

They were originally hunters who lived on the island but that was until the Spaniards came. In the book Buccaneers and pirates it was said that the Spaniards were trading with certain countries or so.

The buccaneers kept interfering with them and the Spaniards did not like that one bit. So the Spaniards went ahead and wages war on the buccaneers. Sooner or later the Spaniards got the buccaneers off the island of Hispaniola. Which made the Buccaneers furious but the buccaneers ended up getting along together and went ahead to travel on the seas and get their revenge on the Spaniards for making them leave their home land.

The buccaneers adopted a name and it was called “The Brethren of the Coast” or what the Spanish will call them pirates, sea robbers, and buccaneers. The Buccaneers were like brothers when it came to riding the seas and fighting against Spaniards and what is right. Did you know that before they became Buccaneers some of them opened up schools in the Caribbean sea. It was very interesting that some of the Buccaneers actually did that before becoming sea pirates.

A well known Buccaneer that most people have heard of because he is one of the most famous Buccaneer is Sir Henry Morgan. Henry Morgan perfected a type of raid and his attack on Porto Bello in 1668 was a classic example of how the buccaneers accomplished the certain type of attack or raid. Majority of times what buccaneers always do was sail on the seas to the west indies to get golds and hides and to fight Spaniards.

The Plank!!

ARRRRRRRRR!!! Now that was a myth most people thought pirates say this but that was not true not all pirates would say that. There were some pirates that were educated in some way like for example Stede Bonnet. He was known as the Gentleman Pirate because of his background he was a moderately wealthy man who turned his life into being a pirate. Stede Bonnet soon in his life as a pirate ended up being partners with BlackBeard. BlackBeard saw how well mannered this pirate was and liked him and wanted to be his partner even though Bonnet has no sea experience since he has never traveled on sea as much he was only used for his learning that was pretty much it. That is why Blackbeard liked him was for his brain.

That was well interesting myth that was said in the reading because not a lot of people would believe that there was some smart pirates because they just do and do not think whats so ever. Another myth that was told about was that pirates usually had parrots and they did have parrots but it was never told on how they got their parrots.

It was said in the reading that most pirates got their parrots by seamen at markets and it was not only parrots it was also other types of exotic birds that were unknown. A myth that was founded in the reading was that pirates valued the work of slaves. In most things people seen or heard nobody would have expected that pirates valued the work of slaves. Most people would think that pirates would have new recruits do the work or they just do it themselves or they just do not do it. Pirates either valued slaves for their work on the ship or to be sold at markets.

Le Myths about Le pirates

There are a lot of things people might have portray pirates like in films or just in some shows. They portrayed the pirates as guys who bury their treasure to hide from others, they have a pirate slang like saying "ARRRRRRR" or "Mateys" and made their victims walked the plank. Some films such as pirates of the caribbean or Peter pan or the goonies.

The goonies portray it a little bit by showing a group of kids finding a treasure map that was hidden by a pirate and they went ahead to find the treasure. Peter pan as well with Captain Hook the villain of the film and he always says to some kids or peter pan that he will make them walk the plank.

Those are myths of pirates because pirates do not really say arrrrrrr or matey. There are some pirates like british pirates who talk in a different way than this. The myth of pirates buried treasure is not true either. The Pirates knew they were not going to live long due to what they were doing so when ever they got treasure they always spend all of the treasure either on liquor or females. The last myth was that pirates make their victims walk the plank. This is also not true because there is not a lot of evidence that pirates made their victims walk the plank. Instead what pirates did to their victims was Knee Hauling which was when they tie the victim to a rope and dragging them under the ship. That will either give the victims horrible injuries or may just drown them because they are under water. These are some myths that films have showed about pirates and these myths were not true at all whats so ever because they do not know that much about pirates.

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My name is Demetrius Hernandez and I am 18 years old. My special interests are Soccer, Baseball, and Football. I have three nationalities and they are Peruvian, Ecuadorian, and Puerto Rican. I am a graduate of Mill Creek High School class of 2019. My major is Accounting.