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What does power cost a man who wants wealth, rank, and command?
In Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, Cyrus Townsend Brady places a bold, calculating sea raider at the center of an adventure on the Spanish Main. Henry Morgan wants more than treasure. His fierce ambition drives a story where leadership, wealth, and power are bound together.
Around him lie the Caribbean coasts and waters of Spanish America, where gold and silver move toward Europe. English, French, and Dutch raiders hunt Spanish treasure. Real raids give the plot its backbone, while Morgan’s hunger for command raises a harder question: what is the price of ruthless ambition?
What you’ll discover
- The Spanish Main Enter a world of rich Spanish colonies, treasure routes, and raiders hungry for their share.
- A calculating captain Meet Henry Morgan, a Welsh-born leader whose boldness serves his appetite for wealth and rank.
- Command under pressure Explore the force of a commander able to hold hundreds of men together under hard conditions.
- History shaped into adventure Follow a sea tale that draws its backbone from Morgan’s real raids on Spanish power.
- The price of ambition Look beyond the promise of treasure to the question of what winning power costs.
Who will love it
For readers who love sea adventure, Caribbean history told as a story, and portraits of ambitious men pursuing wealth, rank and command.
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- The Spanish Main sets the stage
- Morgan is a man of fierce ambition
- Real raids give the plot its backbone
- Power, reward and the price paid
Who’s who
- Henry MorganThe Welsh-born buccaneer captain at the center of the book, a bold and calculating leader who wants wealth, rank and command.
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Sir Henry Morgan, der Freibeuter
by Cyrus Townsend Brady · 1903
Henry Morgan pursues Spanish treasure and power across the Caribbean, where ambition carries a price.
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Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer is an adventure novel by Cyrus Townsend Brady, an American clergyman who also wrote popular historical fiction and naval history. It takes as its hero the Welsh sea raider whose name became a byword for the pirates of the Caribbean.
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The Spanish Main sets the stage
The Spanish Main was the name given to the Caribbean coast of Spanish America and the waters around it. Spain held rich colonies there, and silver and gold moved by ship and mule train toward Europe. That wealth drew rivals. English, French and Dutch captains came to take what they could, sometimes with the quiet blessing of their governments.
The raiders were called buccaneers. The word first described hunters on the island of Hispaniola who smoked meat over wooden frames, and it later came to mean sea raiders based in the Caribbean. Their base for much of the later seventeenth century was Port Royal in Jamaica, an English colony that grew rich and rowdy on plunder and trade.
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What is Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer about?
It is an adventure novel about Henry Morgan, the Welsh-born raider of the Spanish Main. Brady builds a romance around the real buccaneer's rise and the cost of his ambition.
Was Henry Morgan a real person?
Yes. Henry Morgan was a real seventeenth-century buccaneer who led raids on Spanish towns, including Porto Bello and Panama City. He was later knighted and served as an official in Jamaica.
What is the Spanish Main?
It is the old name for the Caribbean coast of Spanish America and the nearby seas. Spanish treasure ships sailed from there, which drew pirates and privateers.
The author
Cyrus Townsend Brady
1861–1920 · American historical novelist
Cyrus Townsend Brady (1861–1920) was an American writer and Episcopal clergyman. He was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and died in Yonkers, New York. He wrote historical novels, biographies, and books about American history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His novels include Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer and A Little Traitor to the South.
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