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Events

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  • The pirate biography, The life and adventures of Capt. John Avery, the famous English pirate, (rais'd from a cabbin-boy, to a King) now in possession of Madagascar published in the UK[1] and becomes a bestseller.[2][3]
  • April - Privateer Woodes Rogers and the ships Duke and Duchess raid Guayaquil in the Viceroyalty of Peru.[4][5][6]
  • December 22 - Rogers captures the Desengaño, one of the two Manila galleons, off Cabo San Lucas. Rogers is wounded.[7][8]
  • December 25 - Rogers's Duke and Duchess attack the Begoña, the larger of the two Manila galleons, and are repulsed with heavy losses.

References

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  1. ^ Broeck, Adrian van (1709). The life and adventures of Capt. John Avery, the famous English pirate, (rais'd from a cabbin-boy, to a King) now in possession of Madagascar. 1709. Anonymous. By Adrian van Broeck, a pseudonym.
  2. ^ Jones, Stephanie (2012). "Literature, geography, law: "The Life and Adventures of Capt. John Avery" (circa 1709)". Cultural Geographies. 19 (1): 71–86. Bibcode:2012CuGeo..19...71J. doi:10.1177/1474474011427362. ISSN 1474-4740. JSTOR 44251453.
  3. ^ Lincoln, Margarette (2016-04-15). British Pirates and Society, 1680-1730. Routledge. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-317-17167-6.
  4. ^ Durston, Gregory J. (2017-06-23). The Admiralty Sessions, 1536-1834: Maritime Crime and the Silver Oar. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 210. ISBN 978-1-4438-7361-1.
  5. ^ MacLiesh, Fleming; Krieger, Martin L. (1962). The Privateers: A Raiding Voyage to the Great South Sea. Random House.
  6. ^ Lincoln, Margarette (2016-04-15). British Pirates and Society, 1680-1730. Routledge. p. 143. ISBN 978-1-317-17167-6.
  7. ^ Saunders, G.  (2008, January 03). Rogers, Woodes (c. 1679–1732), privateer and colonial governor. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 14 Nov. 2024, from https://www-oxforddnb-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-24006.
  8. ^ "La Nao de China: The Spanish Treasure Fleet System - Guampedia". www.guampedia.com. 2015-11-04. Retrieved 2024-11-14.
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