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Woodes Rogers ( c. 1679 – 15 July 1732) was an English sea captain, privateer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of the Bahamas from 1718 to 1721 and again from 1728 to 1732.
Sep 10, 2021 · Woodes Rogers (1679-1732) was a privateer turned administrator who was instrumental in the fight against piracy in the Caribbean when he served as Governor of the Bahamas (appointed 1717 and again in 1728).
Jul 12, 2024 · Woodes Rogers was an English privateer and governor of the Bahamas who helped suppress piracy in the Caribbean. Rogers commanded a privateering expedition (1708–11) around the world, sponsored by Bristol merchants whose ships had been lost to foreign privateers. In 1709 he rescued Alexander.
Jun 6, 2018 · Woodes Rogers died in 1732, leaving behind a legacy of brutality against pirates. After all, he coined the slogan of The Bahamas, “Piracy expelled, commerce restored.” The British colony kept the motto until it gained independence in 1973.
Signaling the end of the classical conception of pirates, Woodes Rogers (1679 - 1732) ironically himself was once a pirate and privateer. Coming from a wealthy seafaring family in Bristol, the same home as Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach, he eventually joined a sea captain apprenticeship until his father died. Given his families multiple shares in ...
Woodes Rogers was certainly one of the most notable persons that have ever lived in the Caribbean. This Englishman had two big obligations in his life. At first, he was a privateer and later became the first governor of Bahamas. In both duties, his main targets were the pirates .
Nov 2, 2022 · The man who is today credited to have made the most contribution to the defeat of the pirates is Governor Woodes Rogers. Born into a rich merchant seafarer family, Rogers was part of the...
Sep 4, 2022 · Rogers, Woodes (b. 1679 — d. July 16, 1732, Nassau, Bahamas), English privateer and governor of the Bahamas who helped suppress piracy in the Caribbean. Rogers commanded a privateering expedition (1708-11) around the world, sponsored by Bristol merchants whose ships had been lost to foreign privateers. In 1709 he rescued Alexander Selkirk ...
Mar 24, 2021 · Rogers has long been recognised as a central figure in the suppression of Atlantic piracy in the early eighteenth century, but his endeavours have been persistently misrepresented as the result of a proactive state-led operation to remove the pirate base in New Providence.
Woodes Rogers, 1679?–1732, British privateer and colonial administrator. A romantic figure, Rogers plundered (1708–9) Spanish commerce in the Pacific and rescued Alexander Selkirk from the Juan Fernández islands.
