Woodes Rogers - Wikipedia
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.
Woodes Rogers - World History Encyclopedia
2021年9月10日 · 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).
Woodes Rogers | Pirate Hunter, Bahamas Governor & Privateer ...
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.
How Woodes Rogers Went From Privateer To Ruthless Pirate …
2018年6月6日 · 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.
Woodes Rogers Timeline - World History Encyclopedia
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).
Woodes Rogers - Famous Privateer - The Way of the Pirates
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 .
Colonial Officials | Woodes Rogers - History Archive
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 - Wikiwand
Woodes Rogers was an English sea captain, privateer, slave trader and, from 1718, the first Royal Governor of the Bahamas. He is remembered as the captain of the vessel that rescued marooned Alexander Selkirk, whose plight is generally believed to have inspired Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
3 - Woodes Rogers and Private Enterprise in New Providence
2021年3月24日 · 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 …
4 - The Cruising Voyage of Woodes Rogers (1708–1711)
The expedition set out from Bristol in August 1708 under the leadership of Woodes Rogers, the ‘Commander-in-Chief’ (the title may have been his own coinage for there is no mention of it in the owners’ orders). Rogers was from a respectable seafaring family hailing from Poole in Dorset.