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Captain Henry Morgan

Llanrumney, Cardiff

A Welsh buccaneer who sacked Panama and was then knighted.

Henry Morgan was born in Wales and rose to lead the buccaneers of the Caribbean. In 1671 he crossed the isthmus and sacked the city of Panama.

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When
Born c. 1635
Where
51.5170, -3.1300
Group
Pirates

Visiting

Llanrumney Hall in east Cardiff is linked to the Morgan family.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
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Blood and Gold

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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