BREAKING NEWS!!! ATTACK ON PANAMA

To start this off, the city of panama was in control by president Don Juan Perez Guzman. Who actually in recent days has been trying to fortify his defenses. Panama was the principal treasure port on the Pacific coast of Central America. It also had a population of 6000 though most of them were black slaves. We have heard that Don said that he did have enough supplies of ammunition as well as weapons.
Apparently though it was not enough to combat against the men of Sir Henry Morgan. The men under Don Juan were recruits who were inexperienced compared to that of the hardened-battle buccaneers.

At 7:00 a.m. on January 28, 1961. Morgan gave the order to his men to march upon the city of panama. They were up against twelve hundred foot soldiers and four hundred horsemen. Morgan sent his men in four squadrons and they carried red and green banners. Morgan knew a frontal assault would be costly, so he order one of the squads to head around and capture one of the hillsides. Don thought that Morgan's men were retreating and ordered his to charge forward. Finding out that the men were unorganized and rabbled apart Morgan's men fired with deadly accuracy.

Don told himself that if the battle would be lost then he would burned down the city. In fact he stayed true to that comment. While Morgan's men were hacking their way into the city, Don had his men load up all the treasures they could carry and shot artillery onto the city burning it down.

Once everything had ceased Morgan quotes "Thus was consumed the famous and ancient city of Panama, the greatest mart for silver and gold in the world." His men searched the smoking city for the treasure but could not find it. The inhabitants were savagely tortured to reveal where they had hidden their money. Morgan walked away with about 250,000 pesos but in truth he walked away with very little to share with his men. They even thought he was holding out on them to keep all the money to himself. In the end it was a very frustrating thing to be able to have such a victory but walk away with so little. After that the buccaneers spilt apart and went their own separate ways. He was later arrested by the Queen of Spain but was treated with care and respect rather than a criminal.

Pirates of all sorts

Throughout history people have talked about explorers such as Christopher Columbus or Sir Francis Drake as role models. People have talked about them exploring the seas and helping out mankind discover more uncharted places. But do we even know what they do off screen. By that I mean we don't fully know what they do from what they say. It is said in Buccaneers and Pirates that Columbus brought with him bloodhounds which he used to catch poor Indians. To me I didn't know that, I thought he was a man who cherished life and valued everything about it, but to hear him catch Indians and rob people just shows that these men aren't who they say they are. Just like Drake as well, he went and attacked the cacafuego because he knew of the treasures aboard the ship. He tricked the ship in thinking that he was friendly, but turned it around and attacked them. To the country who he served he distributed all the funds to everyone and was claimed a hero. In truth there all just thieves, nothing more and nothing less.

Comparison between two books ( Under The Black Flag/Buccaneers and Pirates)

There are some things between the books that do really pop out you either as something that's similar or something that's kind of different. Buccaneers and pirates talks about the tall tells of the legends of pirates, such as things like walking the plank as a form of punishment. That is about the only thing that really stood out as different. In the first couple of chapters of both books they did express a lot of similarities with one another. They talked about how pirates did dress all the same and that they did in fact went around and ransacked ships of their goods. Privateers, corsairs, and buccaneers were all described as the same as in both books present them. But some other differences that also stood out is that in buccaneers and pirates, Frank Stockton talks about pirates in a manner of heroes of some sort; that they were legends of adventuring and many people wanted to follow in their steps and go into the life of a pirate. As for the book under the black flag pirates are described as vile people who have no mercy upon others, they don't really "explore" the seas as told in the other book. All they really did was hijack ships and sell hostages for ransom.

Interests

My name is Quan and I guess this is my bog. I enjoy many things such as exploring the outdoors and by that I mean just heading out into the unknown and seeing what happens. I like taking naps when I am not doing anything productive. I also spend my time collecting pokemon cards. It's fun for me and it's also like buying stock. The cards over time well end up rising in price, so I think it's worth. Anyways welcome to my blog I guess?