Sailing out from the English stronghold of Port Royal, Jamaica, 'the wickedest city in the New World', Morgan and his men terrorised Spanish merchant ships and devastated the cities where great riches in silver, gold, and gems lay waiting to be sent to the King of Spain. Morgan gathered disaffected English and European sailors and soldiers, hard-bitten adventurers, runaway slaves, cutthroats and sociopaths and turned them into the fiercest and most feared army in the Western Hemisphere. His victories helped shape the destiny of the New World. His daring attacks on the mighty Spanish Empire on land and sea changed the fates of kings and queens. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean in the service of the English became legend. Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, arrived in the New World in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune.
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