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In March 2011 his team uncovered six cannons from the captain's fleet, per the Independent, and in August they found something remarkable. Contemporary records indicate that someone with Morgan's name who came from his native Wales was absolutely sold into servitude.

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The rum that bears his name has been around since 1944 and originated in Jamaica, a nation Morgan invaded and where he later served as lieutenant governor. It's believed that Henry Morgan was born around 1635 in Wales, and he definitely died in 1688 in Jamaica.According to the Marin Independent Journal, Morgan took issue with the claim that he used nuns and priests as human shields while raiding a Spanish colony.

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According to The English Conquest of Jamaica, England's Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell was overconfident and underprepared when he set out to occupy the island.In another hideous incident Morgan supposedly imprisoned people and had their heads compressed with cords until their eyes burst out. Then, when the Spanish weren't looking, Morgan's ships drifted to safety under the cover of darkness. After being knighted by England and appointed Jamaica's lieutenant governor, Morgan filed and won a lawsuit that forced Exquemelin's publishers to make a series of awkward retractions, including one which said that Morgan didn't "hang up any person by the testicles. But not only did Morgan attack Panama City, he did it with "the largest fleet ever seen in the Caribbean," per CNN. There was little consideration of how perilous it would be, and Morgan and his men went through hell.

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Whether you're an avid rum-chugger or a massive teetotaler, you've probably heard of 17th-century knight and nautical conqueror Sir Henry Morgan, better known as Captain Morgan. In his 1678 work Buccaneers of America, Exquemelin described the kind of violence that would make your nightmares have nightmares. The governor had already escaped with literal boatloads of treasure, so the heist wasn't as lucrative as expected, but Morgan got his revenge. As recounted in Chronological History of the West Indies, Morgan had entered the city unimpeded and rooted out 250 frightened, hiding residents, whereupon he tortured them into divulging where their loot was. If fortune favors the bold, then Captain Morgan probably had the biggest set of cannonballs in the Atlantic.As for how he reached the Caribbean, Exquemelin alleged that Morgan took to the sea to escape the agrarian lifestyle but was abducted and sold into indentured servitude. Flavours of ripe pineapple hit you first, then the smooth and juicy mango arrives for a double fruity finishing flourish. At some point Hendey saw a Captain Morgan commercial and realized they were standing like the captain.