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Morgan The Pirate (other)
Morgan the Pirate may refer to: *Henry Morgan Sir Henry Morgan (; – 25 August 1688) was a Welsh privateer, plantation owner, and, later, the lieutenant governor of Jamaica. From his base in Port Royal, Jamaica, he and those under his command raided settlements and shipping ports o ..., 17th century privateer * Morgan the Pirate (film), 1960 French-Italian film * Morgan the Pirate (song), 1968 Richard and Mimi Fariña song See also * Captain Morgan (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Morgan
Sir Henry Morgan (; – 25 August 1688) was a Welsh privateer, plantation owner, and, later, the lieutenant governor of Jamaica. From his base in Port Royal, Jamaica, he and those under his command raided settlements and shipping ports on the Spanish Main, becoming wealthy as they did so. With the prize money and loot from the raids, Morgan purchased three large sugar plantations on Jamaica. Much of Morgan's early life is unknown; he was born in an area of Monmouthshire that is now part of the city of Cardiff. It is not known how he made his way to the West Indies, or how the Welshman began his career as a privateer. He was probably a member of a group of raiders led by Sir Christopher Myngs in the late 1650s during the Anglo-Spanish War. Morgan became a close friend of Sir Thomas Modyford, the Governor of Jamaica; as diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of England and Spain worsened in 1667, Modyford gave Morgan a letter of marque, or a licence, to attack and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morgan The Pirate (film)
''Morgan the Pirate'' () is a 1960 Italian-French international co-production historical adventure film, directed by André de Toth and Primo Zeglio, and starring Steve Reeves as Sir Henry Morgan, the pirate who became the Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica. Plot In 1670, freeborn Welshman, Henry Morgan, is enslaved by the Spaniards in Panama and sold to Doña Inez, daughter of Governor Don José Guzmán. Morgan falls in love with his mistress, much to the dismay of her father, who punishes him by sentencing him to a life of hard labor aboard a Spanish galleon. Morgan leads his fellow slaves in mutiny, takes command of the ship, and becomes a pirate, without knowing that Doña Inez was on board, on her way to Spain. She becomes his prisoner, but spurns him when he declares his love in Tortuga. Not long after, Morgan's daring exploits on the Spanish Main pique the interest of King Charles II of England, and Morgan agrees to attack only Spanish vessels in return for English ships and m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morgan The Pirate (song)
"Morgan the Pirate" is a song by Richard Fariña, written in 1966 and released on the 1968 Richard and Mimi Fariña album ''Memories'' ( Mimi being Richard's wife, and vocalist on the song). Richard Fariña was dead by the time the song and album were released. The song has been believed by Fariña's producer, and others, be an answer song to Bob Dylan's 1965 song "Positively 4th Street", a scathing putdown of which various people have been mooted as the target, including Fariña (Fariña's wife and Dylan's one-time lover Joan Baez were sisters, and the four had become close friends, although Fariña and Dylan were also rivals). "Morgan the Pirate" itself is acerbic, and in places sarcastic: That Dylan was targeting Fariña in "Positively 4th Street" is not provable, and other people have been suggested, or no one single person. Nor is it provable that "Morgan the Pirate" is about Dylan. Fariña's producer Maynard Solomon apparently thought so, as his liner notes for the album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
