Henry Morgan: The Greatest Buccaneer in History

[@trustysource7568]

The more Simon covers famous (infamous!) pirates, the more we learn what 10 year old Simon wanted to be.

[@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718]

Hell I'm 48 and still wanna be a pirate. Imagine getting $3 billion worth of loot from a container ship or oil tanker and holding it for $30M worth of bitcoin ransom.

[@trustysource7568]

Agreed. Also, modern pirate = Scuba archeologist... Pretty sure the international waters laws against claiming shipwrecks and their loot is absolutely full of loopholes and potential. You find ONE shipwrecked Spanish galleon full of New World gold and you could buy an island to continue your pirate ways.

[@Ravakeksis]

Yarrr

[@fallendevonish1869]

Morgan was not a pirate,

[@trustysource7568]

@@fallendevonish1869 If the country still exists, you are remembered as a pirate. If the country no longer exists, you are remembered as a daring hero.

[@idleyesss]

I've been waiting for this one! I'm a Morgan from South Wales :)

[@taffyducks544]

An Ancient Royal Welsh name that goes way back to 550Ad.

[@BatCaveOz]

Simon - "He successfully plundered more than his share of *booty* in the West Indies" Me - "What happens in Jamaica... stays in Jamaica"

[@timberlake1100]

😂

[@CptDawner]

His grave was taken by the the great blue, the sea remembers its own.

[@dknighton100]

A fitting tomb for a buccaneer.

[@hazzap08]

I wrote my university dissertation on Morgan and what a fascinating life. Great job as always!

[@maryellencook9528]

He was so good he is immortalized in a bottle of rum!

[@aidanbagwell9590]

They even made it spicy 😈

[@jchi6637]

@@aidanbagwell9590 0

[@SouthernArtist77]

He’s my oldest ancestor.

[@jessicajujubean5004]

Naming rum after a pirate makes perfect sense

[@splifstar85]

Ahh, Anglo saxons are just the same pirates they were back then (bombing and plundering resources of foreign sovereign nation states).. Not really much of a surprise that to this days pirates and slave traders of back then are considered heroes 🤷‍♂️

[@Maderyne]

On occasion, I, too, find myself enjoying his rum as well. A very big thank-you to you Simon, and your research team for a fine video of the famous man.

[@QueenetBowie]

Oh man, you should’ve had Captain Morgan Rum sponsor the video…

[@iangrau-fay592]

Or an Alestorm video Link.

[@danajorgensen8943]

"And now a word from our sponsor to tell you how Sir Henry's name lives on today."

[@sneakybeak4032]

Hilarious pronounciation of Llanrumney 😂 Awesome vid as always!!

[@owenshebbeare2999]

Hey, I'm Welsh and our place names are a bit pdd.

[@michaelsinger4638]

One of the very few pirates who actually got a happy ending.

[@StarEyeNomad]

Not really. Our family ended up in Alabama. LOL

[@robertharper3754]

@@StarEyeNomad, it could be much worse!!! It's not THAT bad there!

[@Aztesticals]

My family has a "pirate" back in the 1600s. He stole a boat from a harbor in New Amsterdam (now known as New york). And then stole 4 more boats up and down the coast and finally somehow sold them and then popped up I Pennsylvania without any warrants. Old records are incomplete but he did something to not get in trouble that is forever lost to history and he blew all of his money on a scam and damnit. Our family could have been old money people. Not poor Edit well it's assumed the money was lost in a scam as the piece of land off the coast of North Carolina that is named to him doesn't exist. Don't know if there was an old sandbar island that a hurricane destroyed or if it was just a fake piece of land to begin with. But either way our family owns a 2780 acre island 40 miles off the coast of North Carolina that doesn't exist.

[@southernthunder47]

@@StarEyeNomad hey Ms. Nora, is there a way I could possibly contact you? I have some questions about the Morgan family.. I myself is descendant of Morgan family and have family in Alabama

[@alfieashley5654]

@@Aztesticals nothing left to the unambitous... you own it, build it and they shall come.

[@TheAntManChannel]

The grocery store has pirate corn, it's a buck an ear... I'll see myself out.

[@reaperpeeper513]

😡

[@johnnythompson3734]

Ah good dad joke

[@onepoundofcheese8356]

Indeed

[@alexguillen9598]

I’m from Panama and he’ll always be considered a pirate and fiend. Someone evil that torched our first city and murdered our people

[@GoldandGunpowder]

The President of Panama torched the city and Morgan tried to extinguish the flames(you can't ransom a destroyed city).

[@alexguillen9598]

@@GoldandGunpowder there was no president back then. It was the governor but this was a last ditch attempt by the spanish for Morgan not to get any of the riches. Still, his attack on the city caused it to burn down. History won’t forget his atrocious crimes

[@v.emiltheii-nd.8094]

Blackbeard: ...and I took that personally!

[@YeeSoest]

I'll always say Avery was the greatest but the one man I'll admit also has a good case to be the "Buccaneer GOAT" is Henry Morgan. I enjoy his rum to this day and that's something I'm missing from Avery/Every

[@aidanbagwell9590]

More of a personal opinion but i think black bellamy is the goat

[@seanwallace79]

Buccaneer GOAT is Captain Brady 🙂

[@gwynplaine6710]

What about the legendary Black Bart Roberts remembered for bringing Transatlantic shipping to a standstill. As well as commanding over multinational crews of freed black slaves and senior pirates who were named ''the house of lords'' Ranging across the sea from Europe to America and as far as Africa 'The Great Pyrate' took over 400 ships in his career (blackboard and Captain Kidd took about 30 between them) Dressed in red silk he wore the king of Portugals diamond cross as bling! Black Bart is the GOAT in my opinion, closely followed by Morgan (both Welsh) In the crappy films Pirates of the Caribbean the pirate's code was fictionally written by ''Morgan and Bartholomew'' a reference to the GOATishness of both pirates!!!!!!

[@rodycaz8984]

@@seanwallace79 Handegg sucks.

[@Captain_Insano_nomercy]

@@gwynplaine6710 I think the top 5 is Henry Avery, Henry Morgan, Black Bart, Black Sam, and Blackbeard in that order. The two Henrys and the three Blacks

[@SergiReyner]

Simon's spanish seems to be getting better, one step at a time \o/

[@HeWhoComments]

“Tom Brady would beg to differ”- some Bucs fan, probably

[@jimcappa6815]

Only if TB12 can win back to back Super Bowls 😉😂

[@saisaiverba7658]

Lmaooo

[@larsjoehnk8457]

@@jimcappa6815 He did lol. 2003 and 2004.

[@O-sa-car]

He meant at TB not NE lol

[@andrebarnes1258]

U beat me to it congrats

[@danielnunez7424]

I'm panamanian, the city was burnt by order of the Governor and the gold altar of the church was painted in brown to mask its gold and moved out of the city before the pirates arrived. Nowadays it sits in another church built in the second city mentioned in the video a few miles to the west.

[@stevendavis2122]

You forgot to mention Morgan’s raid on a Spanish outpost called Gran Grenada,(1663).Aftersailing 500 miles across the Caribbean Sea, apparently, one of the 17th century’s most extraordinary smash-and-grabs. It’s also worth noting,that, this is how is the biggest empire the world has ever seen started🇬🇧

[@MrPrussianjester]

Born to sail the seas, reclaimed by the seas in the end.

[@ethangetchell5550]

Ahhh another video from the best age great job Simon and team!

[@tastygravy6880]

"Why is the rum always gone?" Henry Morgan, maybe.

[@RJ6837]

Can you please do a video on Lord Mountbatten

[@admiralwolfx3074]

Henry Morgan about time I was wondering when I would hear more about my ancestor

[@fishinwidow35]

Morgan had no children.

[@admiralwolfx3074]

He was my great uncle

[@idleyesss]

Shwmae from Wales :) We're distant relatives!

[@AdryanBlantz]

My grandmother was a Morgan from Wales. It’s a big family/ common name. Now I want to check the family tree.

[@joeyr7294]

I really enjoyed this video as I usually do with your vids, but this was a top notch informative video! Well done Simon and co. 👍🍻

[@erock17777]

Absolutely love the the pacing and tone of you’re videos.

[@bobbydazzler330]

I live on a council estate in cardiff called llanrumney....Henry Morgan old house....about one minute walk from my home....its now a hub for the local residents to get information about accessing info ,it was bought by a wealthy guy who was brought up in a council house on llanrumney

[@ravenhill-night-chills-1968]

i used to love Henry morgan Jamaican rum!

[@nicholasming5976]

My earliest known ancestor James Myng was the captain of the vessel Henry Morgan served on in the anglo Spanish war. They were acting as privateers (condoned piracy) against the Spanish. At some point they were enlisted with the broader navy for a big battle. My ancestor was killed, shot in the throat by a pistol, there after the crew disbanded. That’s what a copy of the official documents that I saw said anyway. I guess my side is but a branch of that tree. The name changed for easier spelling/reading and my branch of the family landed in Bermuda in 1701.

[@enriquemurillo4665]

Great video, very accurate, just one minor detail, I'm from Panama and the picture show as the ruins of Panama city is wrong; is in fact an areal view of a caribbean fort. But again great video, big fan of this channel, keep the good work

[@ignitionfrn2223]

0:45 - Chapter 1 - Early years 4:30 - Chapter 2 - The plunder of Puerto principe 9:35 - Chapter 3 - The pillage of porto bello 12:30 - Chapter 4 - The maraud of maracibo 14:50 - Chapter 5 - The pumeling of panama - Chapter 6 -

[@sophdog1678]

Simon Blazebeard, conqueror of the stormy Channels of KZbin

[@nathanielbrett3768]

How ironic that the place that was once know as the wickedest city on earth is now the most peaceful place in Jamaica right now.

[@feddi7693]

Jamaica Jamaica

[@ROY-COLLEY]

Hi I live in Llanrumney in Cardiff. He wasn't born here .He was actually born a farm that was on the Estste of Tredegar house near Newport. But Llanrumney Hall was his yes..

[@arami187]

Captain Henry Morgan- I respect the Historical figure, but loved his Rum! 😋🥃

[@anthonybignotti3503]

@Simon Whistler your videos are so very informative I could watch them all day. Keep up the good work my good man. I'm a Buccaneer too. A Tampa Bay Buccaneer! Lol

[@znk0r]

I close my eyes and see it all with the graphics of Sid Mier's Pirates.

[@debunkthis]

Please try Richard Feynman. That would be cool plus like a science list would be cool

[@BluBlu777]

I loved Henry Morgan on I’ve Got A Secret.

[@marialewis8318]

Super entertaining. I feel like I just watched a three muskateers movie. Those folks had fun

[@katrinastorm5907]

Shameless plug for the Pirate History Podcast. So detailed and informative and so much better than anything I learned in school.

[@morning_dew922]

Hi Simon, I learn so much from your videos. I love listening to you while I work.

[@Rane7685]

Immature moment while Simon is defining Buccanneers... "They consisted of a lot of seamen..."

[@gm2407]

You would like Sea-man of South Park.

[@drpepper3838]

Please do a video about michiel de ruyter, One of the greatest admirals of all time

[@justinetters4544]

Fitting that Cap’n Morgan ended up in the sea.

[@SuperMississippian]

You should do an episode on William Dampier.

[@Andrewflynn16]

Cptn Henry Morgan a fine connoisseur of Caribbean rum

[@thomashelm4788]

You need to do a biographic for Allen Stanford !!! Unbelievable story !!

[@TwoWholeWorms]

Oh mate, this video just informed me that there was a naval battle at Maracaibo, and anyone who knows anything about Maracaibo knows that it's literally a permanent lightning storm, and now all I can see in my head is a string of ships of the line from both sides overcast by the most epic constant lightning storm ever. Strewth...

[@atanasiohernandez1450]

Regarding Mansvelt, many sources claim that he was captured by the spanish after a counter attack on Santa Catalina, and executed in 1667,

[@multiyapples]

If you haven’t already please cover James Cook.

[@siphelelemhambi4871]

Finally, a Captain Morgan video 😎😎😎😎

[@Joshua-dr8yc]

you should do a biographic on Carolus Rex

[@RedPaganNetwork]

Of course he loved Rum! That's why they named it after him! 😂😂😂

[@judsonross6995]

To err is human, to Aaaarrrrr is pirate!

[@StarEyeNomad]

Henry Morgan is my nine times great Uncle. Figures we would end up in Alabama.

[@feddi7693]

Interesting

[@idleyesss]

We're related! Hwyl from Wales!

[@StarEyeNomad]

@@idleyesss My father has said for years that half the family is still there! Hey cousin! I know my Aunt has been in contact for years with some of the Welsh cousins. I've big plans to sometime make it over the pond and meet everyone. 😁

[@them_that_loudly]

Allegedly, another one of Morgan's uncles served under Lord Cromwell as a general

[@Hengel_Andrews]

17:44 those Parishes(Precincts) and alignment is very interesting! Gone are St. Georges, St. Davids and St. Johns

[@garethb1968]

Great story I live quite close to we’re he used to live

[@roywilkowski2326]

Please do a video on William Dampier. Though he died at the height of the Pirate Golden Age, he was probably the most ironic and one of the most brilliant men to ever sail the seas.

[@ethanmorgan1734]

Can we have one of ozzy Osborne he’s had one hell of a life as the prince of darkness

[@fidelio9301]

How about a biographics on guybrush threepwood?

[@randomperson6433]

The name rang a bell but I couldn’t remember why. Thanks for that trip down memory lane 😂

[@rrteamersfoort1249]

At 13:00 a map that shows 'Huysen op Boomen', which is old-Dutch for 'Houses on Trees'. The map shows us some 2 dozen houses on top of trees that stand in the lake. Would have liked to see those.

[@gerrygunn5109]

Halloween: Ah, a pirate, where are your buccaneers? Under my buccan hat.

[@danicalifornia505]

You should do a video on Abd el-Krim and the Rif war in North Africa.

[@richardpreston5260]

Please do on on paddy Blair one of our unsung hero’s and a proper warrior

[@eleanorwatson1733]

A very fitting end for the man

[@spddiesel]

He also invented pirate corn; charged a buck an ear...

[@mousermind]

So they were essentially named after their version of jerked meat in which they traded. Would we then call them _jerks_ in today's tongue, if they were instead around in our era? :P

[@Filiolus]

Nice. Lol

[@chelsiebain3952]

I am literally related to this guy he’s one of my like 11th or 12th great grandfather!

[@Slimee44]

You gotta do one of these on Captain William Kidd and his hidden treasure buried somewhere in the Pine Barrens of NJ

[@jamesmartin6050]

Here are some suggestions for another video - all interesting people April Ellison/William Ellison Jr. (1790-1861) - a freed slave from South Carolina who became a successful slaveowner and planter himself before the civil war. Anthony Johnson (1600-1670) - a former indentured servant who became one of the first African American property owners in America and a successful tobacco farmer. Lord Mountbatten (1900-1979) - Prince Philip’s uncle and Queen Elizabeth’s second cousin once removed who was assassinated by the IRA Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) - Japanese poet, author, playwright, actor and nationalist who committed seppuku after a failed attempt to overthrow Japan’s 1947 constitution. Robert Walpole (1676-1745) - British politician who was the first prime minister of Great Britain from 1721 until 1742 under King George I and King George II. Eamon DeValera (1882-1975) - prominent political leader in 20th century Ireland who, after the Irish war of independence from 1919 to 1921, was in the public eye for over forty years from 1922 until his death were he served as head of government (Taoiseach/prime minister) and head of state (president). He was nearly executed in the Easter Rising in 1916 and was key in putting into place the new constitution on 1937. A very prominent Irish figure and one of the most important in Irish history. George Eastman (1854-1932) - American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak company. He was a pioneer of photography and a major philanthropist. He commit suicide at the age of 77 because of chronic pain from health problems. Emile Zola (1840-1902) - French novelist and journalist who is an early practitioner in the literary genre, naturalism. He was involved in the Dreyfus affair, a political scandal in France. He died in 1902 at the age of 62 from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. ryoichi sasakawa (1899-1995) - Japanese businessman, politician, sports administrator, philanthropist and was criminal who helped Norman Borlaug with his Green Revolution. Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) - Irish poet, playwright and translator who won the 1995 Nobel prize for literature and wrote a poem about The Tollund Man comparing his cause of death to The Troubles in Northern Ireland. W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) - Irish poet, dramatist and writer with an interest in the occult who helped found the Abbey Theatre and was a senator for the Irish Free State. He is one of the most important historical figures in Irish history. Prince Phillip, The Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021) - husband and consort to Queen Elizabeth who served in the navy as a young man, serving in the Second World War. He died recently so it would be a good choice. Jordan Belfort (born 1962) - former stockbroker, author, motivational speaker and convicted felon who committed fraud via stock market manipulation. His book was the inspiration behind the film The Wolf of Wall Street starring Leonardo DiCaprio in 2013. Andrew Cunanan (1969-1997) - spree killer responsible for five murders before his suicide via gunshot. His victims include Gianna Versace and Lee Miglin. Lee Miglin (1924-1997) - American business tycoon, real estate developer and philanthropist who was spree killer, Andrew Cunanan’s third murder victim. “The Count of Saint Germain” (1691 or 1712 -died 1784) - European Adventurer who achieved prominence in high society in the 1700’s. His real name is unknown while his background is obscure. He claimed to be the son of Prince Francis II Rakoczi of Transylvania. He was arrested for suspicion of espionage during the Jacobite rebellion but was released without charge. Julia d’Aunigny (1670 or 1673 -died 1707) - 17th century French opera singer who was known for her flamboyant lifestyle. Her father was a secretary to the master of the horse to King Louis XIV. She was a keen sword fighter, cross-dressed and tried to run away with a female lover after killing a man in a duel. She died at the age of 33. Past American presidents, British prime ministers, monarchs and Roman emperors would be good as well.

[@GeorgeEstregan828]

Loved his Rhum

[@MrPassivefist]

We need a video about Daniel Inouye, probably one of the greatest Americans ever

[@kl0wnkiller912]

Do one on Kurt Tank or Ian Fleming

[@DolFunDolhpinVtuber]

Captain Morgan.

[@briangusman5553]

Well, ole Morgan was buried at sea after all. Lots of info I didn't know, Thank You.

[@elliotkamper]

Damn even the most successful pirate couldn’t escape of watery grave!

[@ImNotJust]

He’s also got some pretty good Rum.

[@CodyFoxworthy]

I know this won't get seen but forever ago you said something about a biography on Anwar Sadat and I would love to hear it still.

[@NeroWesten]

Real talk Simon- Henry Whats-his-face is very interesting and all, with all the things he did and such. But, how long until you take this channel seriously and do a Danny Biographic?

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

Please do one about William of Orange

[@codycatron8623]

Simon doesn't do these anymore nowadays. Wish he still did.

[@Apocfetau]

Now that's what I call a watery grave.

[@Mrgunsngear]

Thanks

[@erichurst7897]

Supposedly, my family is distantly related to him. Though, seeing as how he was the Lt. Gov. of Jamaica during the Golden Age of Piracy, and was a "Privateer", there's probably a lot of families with that claim...

[@kiramiller568]

Can we please get some more female pirate biographies? Other than Mary Read and Anne Bonny there were many many more that were fantastic

[@thecaptain29]

I don't think "fantastic" is an appropriate word to assign to murderous outlaws... 😅

[@iangrau-fay592]

@@thecaptain29 Fantastically interesting? Also the story of Zheng Yi Sao (if she hasn't been covered already would be amazing. .....also Henry Morgan's legacy lives on in my favorite beverage.

[@thecaptain29]

@@iangrau-fay592 🤣

[@michaels7325]

Not really though. Besides those two and maybe a couple other they are all maybe a few lines of dialog and then "the end".

[@Kero7th]

Maybe you could come up with some content we could all bite into.

[@PaulTheCyclist.]

I am sure I have read somewhere that Morgan's name is still mud to this day in Panama

[@gamezob]

But where has the rum gone?

[@agong802]

If you want an episode idea for something with a little more Canadian flavour it would be really interesting to see a video on Louis Riel.

[@lavane26]

I don't know if this is helpful at all, but the images used at the end to talk about the ruins of Panama and how it was never rebuilt are wrong. That is still Fuerte San Lorenzo in Colon, in the Atlantic side. The city of Panama (now called Panama Viejo, or Old Panama), were in the Pacific side. I just wonder why you didn't use actual images of Panama Viejo. Also, it has been confirmed now (in fact, a few years ago) that it was the governor of Panama who ordered the city be burned down rather than see it fall into the hands of Morgan.

[@tannerlane9669]

So the difference between a pirate and a privateer is the privateer became one by being the most dominant pirate 😂

[@lordsofafan372]

Us welsh seemed to be good at piracy lol. Bartholomew Roberts the dread pirate. Or black Bart was probably the most successful pirate that there ever was. And legend has it he never killed anyone lol.

[@jackbrigoli7452]

You know you're a legendary Pirate when you have an entire brand of Rum named after you.

[@thegunslinger1363]

Could you cover George Carlin? A philosopher with a sense of humour.

[@phillipcummings3518]

He's not a philosopher

[@TheEvilCommenter]

Good video 👍

[@lostbutfreesoul]

Still don't consider him a Pirate because of how the British Crown acted to the accusation: - They promoted Morgan as high up the chain as they could! - Morgan went 'off his marc' regularly, but that could have been the intent from the very beginning. A thin veneer of legal protection for the British court, so a well positioned Crown Agent wouldn't be accidently hanged by one of the Crown's own governors. As long as Morgan continued to weaken the Spanish position in the region then it doesn't matter to the Crown how he did so.... That being said: I still consider him one of the greatest Admirals, as not many of those can also take a city via an over-land campaign.

[@taffyducks544]

English Crown! The British (Welsh) crown ended in 1415.

[@Aundrich]

I'm curious about Henry's resting place, plantation home and secrete tunnel he had from his home to town.

[@quester09]

Simon: pirates! buccaneers! Americans: sportsball! spiced rum!

[@Wardner213]

Could you please do a bio on Ip Man? Thank you :)

[@GEORGE-jf2vz]

Wow, Priests and nuns were actually good for something other than taking money.

[@billsheehy1]

Not really