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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
Readers who enjoy pirate adventure with real menace, sea battles told by someone who knows ships, and a love story that tests honor and duty.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- Morgan turns arrest into escape
- An old follower hides his hatred
- Morgan sacrifices his ship to win
- Command survives mutiny but not weather
- Love collides with debts of honor
- A moment breaks Alvarado's resistance
- Cruelty gives revenge an opening
- Adventure carries a clear moral judgment
- Ruthless ambition keeps making enemies
Who’s who
- Sir Henry MorganA knighted old buccaneer and acting Governor of Jamaica who escapes arrest, steals a frigate and seeks a new empire and a bride.
- Benjamin HornigoldThe one-eyed boatswain who follows Morgan for years and now serves him while secretly planning a slow revenge for his hanged brother.
- Captain Dominique AlvaradoThe young commandant of La Guayra, raised by the Viceroy, who loves his patron's daughter and is bound by honor not to claim her.
- Mercedes de LaraThe Viceroy's daughter, called the Pearl of Caracas, who defies her father and her captors alike for the man she loves.
- Black DogMorgan's silent maroon servant, strong and quick with a knife, who guards his master's back with unquestioning devotion.
- TeachA young, reckless singer and sailor, bold as a lion, who admires Morgan and stands by him in every fight.
- Count Alvaro de LaraThe Viceroy of Venezuela, a proud old soldier who wants to protect his daughter and the honor of his house.
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Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer
by Cyrus Townsend Brady · 1903
A disgraced knight burns his own house and steals a King's frigate to raid the Spanish Main again.
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What would you do with ten minutes if soldiers had come to arrest you? Sir Henry Morgan, once the most feared buccaneer in the Caribbean and now the knighted Vice-Governor of Jamaica, knocks one officer senseless, bluffs a troop of horsemen, and burns down his own house.
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- 75,700 words
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- Medium longer sentences, everyday words
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- 1903by Cyrus Townsend Brady
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Morgan turns ten minutes into an escape
It is the summer of 1685, and Sir Henry Morgan sits alone in a handsome room above Spanish Town, drinking rum with his plumed hat still on. His wife has just died upstairs. His silent servant Black Dog keeps the glass full.
Then horsemen arrive with an order bearing a royal seal. King James now rules, and a new Governor has landed. Morgan is to be arrested for murder, theft and treason and shipped to England. He has ten minutes to come quietly.
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Brady, Cyrus Townsend. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/sir-henry-morgan-buccaneer.
Brady, C. T. (2026). Sir Henry Morgan, buccaneer. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/sir-henry-morgan-buccaneer (Original work published 1903)
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What is Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer about?
It follows an aging pirate-turned-governor who escapes arrest in Jamaica, steals a frigate, captures a treasure galleon and attacks La Guayra in Venezuela, while a Spanish captain and the Viceroy's daughter fight to keep their love and honor.
Is Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer a true story?
No. Brady says in his preface that it is a work of imagination. Henry Morgan was a real buccaneer who was knighted, and the author draws on documented crimes, but the plot and many characters are invented.
Who is Benjamin Hornigold in the book?
He is Morgan's one-eyed boatswain, a veteran buccaneer from New England. He agrees to follow his old captain again, but he is secretly planning revenge for the hanging of his younger brother Ebenezer.
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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