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A makeshift crew was composed of privateers, members of the Puerto Rican urban militias and soldiers. [174] Once there, the Spanish forces quickly overwhelmed the settlers, only suffering a single loss while the British colonists lost over 30 men and 59 others were made prisoners of war. [177] Afterwards, the settlement was burned to the ground ...
August 12, 1528: In the first French offensive against Puerto Rico, privateers attacked the port of San Germán, sinking two vessels that were docked there. [61] San Germán shore [61] Two Spanish caravels [61] A ship full of provisions for a trip to Spain [61] Current status: Unknown; reported by an eyewitness. [61] Captain: Alonso Martel. [62 ...
Luke, originally from Genoa, had been cruising the Caribbean under commission from the Spanish Governor of Puerto Rico as a guarda costa privateer. With his sloop Vengeance (or Venganza) he had earlier captured four English vessels and murdered their crews. [2] In April 1722 he spotted a merchant ship off of Hispaniola and moved alongside to ...
The most well-known privateer corsairs of the eighteenth century in the Spanish colonies were Miguel Enríquez of Puerto Rico and José Campuzano-Polanco of Santo Domingo. Miguel Enríquez was a Puerto Rican mulatto who abandoned his work as a shoemaker to work as a privateer.
The most well-known privateer corsairs of the eighteenth century in the Spanish colonies were Miguel Enríquez of Puerto Rico and José Campuzano-Polanco of Santo Domingo. [56] Miguel Enríquez was a Puerto Rican mulatto who abandoned his work as a shoemaker to work as a privateer. Such was the success of Enríquez, that he became one of the ...
Captain Miguel Enríquez and Captain Roberto Cofresí (in the 19th century) were two of the most famous Puerto Rican privateers. In the first half of the 18th century, Enríquez, a shoemaker by occupation, decided to try his luck as a privateer.
Roberto Cofresí y Ramírez de Arellano [a] [b] (June 17, 1791 – March 29, 1825), better known as El Pirata Cofresí, was a pirate from Puerto Rico.He was born into a noble family, but the political and economic difficulties faced by the island as a colony of the Spanish Empire during the Latin American wars of independence meant that his household was poor.
As the Puerto Rican independence movement grew, tales of his supposed role as a privateer for Simon Bolívar became popular urban legends. According to tradition, the Sana Muerto River acquired its name when a pallbearer slipped during a funeral procession that took place during the 1820s.