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Born in 1635 in Llanrhymney, Glamorgan, Wales
Died on August 25, 1688
For some time while England and Spain were at war Morgan operated as a privateer. Later he became a pirate.
It is thought that he was a part of an expedition that took Jamaica from the Spanish and made it an English colony.
He was the commander of a crew of buccaneer that captured Puerto Principe and Portabela, Cuba.
He also raided the coastline of Venezuela around the Lake Maracaibo.
Morgan was unaware that England and Spain signed a peace treaty which ended the privateering of the ships from both countries.
In August of 1670 he captured the city of Panama using thirty-six ships and two thousand crewmen.
When most of the crew was on leave from the ship, Morgan ran off with all of the plunder from Panama.
Eventhough Morgan did not know that a peace treaty was signed he was arrested, charged with breaking the treaty, but the charges were eventually dropped.
When the treaty between England and Spain was set aside Morgan was knighted by King George II of England.
Later he was made the governor of Jamaica.
He died of natural causes in in Lawrencefield, Jamaica.
cptain henry morgan
mary read
Born in London
Died December 18, 1720
He father disguised her as a boy from an early age.
She was signed onto a Man-o-War ship at age thirteen.
Met first husband while fighting in a horse regiment.
After his death she sailed to the West Indies.
Pirate John Rackham captured the ship that she was working on and she joined his crew.
Rackham's ship was captured and the entire crew was hanged except for Anne Bonny and Read.
Mary was imprisoned with Anne Bonny where she died from a fever.
The only reason that Read and Bonny were not hanged with the rest of the ship's crew was that they were pregnant
