Augustin Blanco
Augustin Blanco | |
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Born | Baracoa, Cuba |
Nationality | Cuban |
Years active | 1700-1725 |
Known for | Attacking in open boats, and for having a mixed-race crew |
Piratical career | |
Base of operations | Caribbean |
Augustin Blanco (fl. 1700–1725) was a pirate active in the Caribbean. He was noted for attacking in open boats, and for having a mixed-race crew.
History
Blanco was from Baracoa, Cuba, and had been operating in the Caribbean for some time: “an old robber among these Islands about 25 years.”[1] His crew was noted for being mixed-race,[2] including “English, Scots, Spaniards, Mulattoes, and Negroes.”[3] His co-Captain was an Englishman, Richard Hancock.[4] Blanco had received commission as a guarda costa privateer from Don Carlos de Suere, Governor of Santiago de Cuba; the English complained that the Spaniards abused these commissions to attack English towns, logwood cutters, and others.[1] In March 1725 Blanco attacked the Jamaica-bound sloop Snapper by rowing alongside in an open periagua.[3] Blanco threatened to attack New Providence and “give no quarter,” and also claimed the Spanish Governor had forced him to attack the English and take prisoners who would be used as laborers by the Spanish.[1] He landed on Eleuthera where some of the sloop's crew escaped, but where Blanco looted an English settlement and took several prisoners.[1]
Bahamas Governor George Phenney armed two sloops with troops from his garrison and sent them after Blanco, but their search proved futile.[1] Phenney sent letters of complaint to Governor of Havana Don Gregorio Guazo Calderon, who responded that he had no authority over Baracoa or Santiago de Cuba. Phenny further fortified Nassau but could not protect outlying islands where traders sailed to collect salt and logwood and requested the King send a warship to help secure the area from pirates.[1]
See also
- Richard Frowd, another pirate noted for his mixed-race crew.
- Richard Noland, who like Hancock shared Captain duties with a Spaniard, in his case Don Benito.
- Henry Johnson and Pedro Poleas - another English and Spanish pair who co-captained a pirate vessel.
- Matthew Luke and Simon Mascarino, two other Spanish guarda costa privateers caught by English pirate hunters
References
- ^ a b c d e f Headlam, Cecil (1936). America and West Indies: April 1725 | British History Online (April 1725 section 574 ed.). London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. pp. 352–367. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
- ^ Hamilton, John (2007). Pirate's Life. Edina MN: ABDO. p. 24. ISBN 9781604532548. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
- ^ a b Cordingly, David (2013). Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates. New York: Random House Publishing Group. ISBN 9780307763075. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
- ^ Fox, E. T. (December 2010). "Jacobitism and the Golden Age of Piracy, 1715-1725". International Journal of Maritime History. 22 (2): 277–303. doi:10.1177/084387141002200212. ISSN 0843-8714. S2CID 162372700. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
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