Yo-ho-ho! Join our terror on the high seas as stories of famous pirates from around the world are retold in this fast-moving series for kids in grades 3 through 6; each book includes an analysis page in each chapter that helps the kids understand what is real and what might have been fictionalized over time; Each book provides a concluding chapter that recounts for the kids whether the pirate is more legend or mostly truth.Henry Morgan became the most famous and feared pirate among the eastern islands and coasts of the Americas in the mid-1600s. At least "pirate" was the term his Spanish enemies used to describe him. As for Morgan, he felt totally offended at being called a pirate. He was no thief and murderer, he insisted. Rather, he saw himself as a proud English patriot. He preferred that people called him a privateer, someone who had the permission of his king to attack his nation's enemies. Indeed, claiming to have that royal backing, Morgan avidly assaulted Spanish ships and towns in the Americas. Based in English-controlled Jamaica and other islands, he and his crewmen became widely known for combining boldness, bravery, and bloody brutality in ways that had never been seen before--or since then! This book correlates well to common core standards that ask students to read stories and literature, as well as more complex texts that provide facts and background knowledge in areas such as science and social studies. Students will be challenged and asked questions that push them to refer back to what they've read. This stresses critical-thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills that are required for success in college, career, and life.

Excerpt from Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer: A Romance of the Spanish Main In literature there have been romantic pirates, gentlemanly pirates, kind-hearted pirates, even humorous pirates - in fact, all sorts and conditions of pirates. In life there was only one kind. In this book that kind appears. Several presentations - in the guise of novels - of pirates, the like of which never existed on land or sea, have recently appeared. A perusal of these interesting romances awoke in me a desire to write a story of a real pirate, a pirate of the genuine species. Much research for historical essays, amid ancient records and moldy chronicles, put me in possession of a vast amount of information concerning the doings of the greatest of all pirates; a man unique among his nefarious brethren, in that he played the piratical game so successfully that he received the honor of knighthood from King Charles II. A belted knight of England, who was also a brutal, rapacious, lustful, murderous villain and robber - and undoubtedly a pirate, although he disguised his piracy under the name of buccaneering - is certainly a striking and unusual figure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Young Henry Morgan is obsessed with his plan to follow the wake of his ancestor Sir Henry Morgan’s ships and to find the buccaneer’s long lost snuffbox. The plan is imperiled by Hector Torres, a wealthy, aging Cuban who has designs on Isabella, the girl Henry intends to marry. When Isabella’s uncle sends her temporarily back to Spain, Henry and his friend, Jan, commence their voyage in a small fishing boat. They sail the Caribbean, touching land at the scenes of Sir Henry’s conquests and visit his home base of Port Royal. Having concluded the voyage Henry awaits Isabella’s return. Both he and Torres are at dock-side to greet Isabella. Torres reaches her first. After a brief glance he abruptly hurries away. Henry is also shocked by her appearance but accepts her the way she is. Isabella then reveals that she has been cleverly disguised to frighten Torres away. Learning of the deception, Hector uses his influence to have Henry discharged from his employment. Henry decides to emigrate, with his wife Isabella and infant daughter, to America, providing he can finance the journey. A surprising development involving the jeweled snuffbox results in Torres’ downfall and for the Morgans’ first class passage to America.

This work presents the history of Sir Henry Morgan, the Welsh buccaneer who was one of the most famous adventurers and looted Spain's Caribbean colonies during the late 17th century. Working with the unofficial support of the English government, he sabotaged Spanish authority in the West Indies. It's believed that he was a member of the expedition that captured Jamaica from the Spanish in 1655 and converted it into an English colony.

"[...]mouth under the trifling upturned mustache, with its lips at the same time thin and sensual. To be fat and sensual is to appear to mitigate the latter evil with at least a pretence at good humor; to be thin and sensual is to be a devil. This man was evil, not with the grossness of a debauchee but with the thinness of the devotee. And he was an old man, too. Sixty odd years of vicious life, glossed over in the last two decades by an assumption of respectability, had swept over the gray hairs, which evoked no reverence.[...]".