Enlightenment · North America · War
1671
Henry Morgan Sacks Panama
August 22, 1671
The Welsh buccaneer Henry Morgan led two thousand pirates across the Isthmus of Panama and burned the Spanish city of Panama to the ground. He returned to Jamaica with mule-trains of plunder. The English crown arrested him for form's sake, then knighted him and made him lieutenant governor, rewarding in peace the violence it had encouraged in war.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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