The legend of Henry Morgan. Indeed it is true that many men lead a larger than life existence, but Henry Morgan's life in many accounts was much grander in text than it was in reality. Henry Morgan is painted in many accounts as a famous swasbuckling pirate whose outlaw ways made him an enemy of all government officials in the Carribean. While in fact Morgan was a buccaneer and captain of a English supported and reckognized vessel. He may have been a cruel man, he may have been an ambitious man, He may have been a swasbuckling man, but a man hated by all governments he was not. In fact he was given several comindations from the British government.He was knighted in 1674 and was awarded the position of the Lieutenant Governor position in Jamaica in 1675. He also didn't go out in a ball of hellfire like other pirates at his death it was said that, "almost no buccaneers in the Caribbean were active." Although his glory is solidified his history from source to source is can be as sinister looking as ---------> that Henry Morgan or as gentle and noble as Morgan below
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