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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. He is remembered as the captain of the vessel that rescued marooned Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk , whose plight is generally believed ...
18 de abr. de 2024 · Woodes Rogers (born 1679?—died July 16, 1732, Nassau, Bahamas) 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.
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10 de sept. de 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). Rogers is also known for his three-year privateering voyage around the world (1708-11) and the well-received book which ...
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Woodes Rogers (ca. 1679 – 15 de julio de 1732) fue un corsario inglés que se convirtió en el primer Gobernador Real de las Bahamas. Es también conocido por haber sido el capitán del navío que rescató al náufrago Alexander Selkirk.
Woodes Rogers was an English sea captain and privateer who was twice appointed as the Royal Governor of the Bahamas. He was the captain of the ship that rescued Alexander Selkirk, a Royal Navy officer who spent more than four years marooned on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean.
18 de oct. de 2019 · In 1718, Rogers arrived in the Bahamas as the new, yet unpaid, governor. He attempted to use his personal funds to eliminate pirates from the islands and build the archipelago into a British stronghold against the Spanish, especially those in Cuba.
6 de jun. de 2018 · In 1718, the monarch ordered Rogers to sail to The Bahamas as the islands’ new governor. The mission to The Bahamas was impossible because, Rogers and King George knew, the place was a haven for pirates. If there was a pirate capital, The Bahamas was it. There were 2,000 pirates in The Bahamas and Rogers was badly outnumbered.
