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Privateer who commanded a Spanish fleet that included two generals of the Brazil fleet: Don Juan de Vega Basan and Don Rodrigo Lobo. The fleet sailed from the city of Cartagena to Providence Island and attacked the English colony in June 1640. Their attack was repelled by the colonists. Afterwards what remained of the fleet returned to Cartagena.
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Don Antonio Maldonado de Texedaunknown1640
 
1649unknown

Daniel Elfrithunknown1607
 
16411641
 a 17th-century English privateer, colonist and slave trader. In the service of the Earl of Warwic...
Hendrik Brouwer15811606
 
16431643, Aug 7
 a Dutch explorer, admiral, and colonial administrator both in Japan and the Dutch East Indies. He...
Zheng Zhilong16041623
 
16451661
 a Chinese merchant, pirate and military leader in the late Ming dynasty who later defected to the...
Samuel Axeunknown1629
 
1645unknown
 an English privateer in Dutch service during the early 17th century. In 1635, he accepted Dutch l...
William Rousunknown1631
 
16451645
 a 17th-century English privateer in the service of the Providence Island Company. He started as a...
William Jackson [1]unknown1639
 
1645unknown
 an English privateer who, based in Guanaja and Roatan, was in the service of the Providence Islan...
Thomas Cromwell [2]unknown1643
 
 
1645unknown
 
Manuel Butiensunknown1645+
 
 
1645+unknown
 Dutch renegade and Dunkirker in the service of Spain......Privateer who operated from Duinkerken ...
Cornelius Corneliszoon Jol15971620
 
16491641, Oct 31
 a 17th-Century Dutch corsair and admiral in the Dutch West India Company during the Eighty Years'...
Captain James [2]unknown1630
 
1649unknown
 A buccaneer captain who was in 1640 temporarily appointed "President" of Tortuga Island by the Pr...
Francisco Díaz Pimientaunknown1630
 
1649unknown
 Spanish privateer and general in the Spanish army. He commanded the Spanish fleet that attacked a...
James Riskinnerunknown1630
 
1649unknown
 a 17th-century English privateer who operated from Providence Island against Spanish shipping dur...
William Rudyerdunknown1630
 
1649unknown
 Muster master General of the Island of Providence colony from 1630 - 1634. In 1634 he returned to...
Frederico Langravio d'Assiaunknown1640
 
16491645 ca
 Knight of Malta. Captain General of the Galleys..... Probably pirate Italian and Maltese knigh...
Pierre Paulusenunknown1640
 
1649unknown
 Dutch privateer employed by Spain. On 30 May 1644 he captured a Dutch hooker ship and ransomed it...
Catalina de Erausounknown1585
 
1650unknown
 a one-time nun who subsequently travelled around Spain and Spanish America, mostly under male ide...
Jean Le Vasseur unknown1642
 
1652 unknown
 
Willem Albertse Blaeuveltunknown1643
 
1656unknown
 From 1643 to 1656 we find many references to the Capetyn in the documentary history of the Colony...
Rupertunknown1640
 
1659unknown
 After an adventurous life as a soldier on the Continent, he sailed from Ireland in 1648 with seve...
Koxinga 1624, Aug 241646
 
16621662, Jun 23
 a Chinese military leader who was born in Hirado, Japan to the Chinese merchant/pirate Zheng Zhil...
Abraham Blauvelt1600 ca1630
 
16631663 ca
 a Dutch privateer and explorer mapping much of Central America in the 1630s, after whom both the ...
Cornelis Evertsen the Elder1610, Aug 41626
 
16661666, Jun 11
 a Dutch admiral. In 1626 Cornelis is first mentioned as actually serving on sea, during a private...
Major Samuel Smithunknown1640
 
1669unknown
 Buccaneer. At one time a buccaneer with the famous Mansfield. In 1641 he was sent, by the Governo...
Grillo Diego unknown1620
 
1673unknown
  Spanish but worked for the French, Hanged
Diego Grillounknown1639
 
16731673
 There are relatively few historical records of Diego el mulato Grillo, and they are not all consi...
Cornelis Evertsen the Younger1628, Apr 161648
 
16781679, Sep 20
 a Dutch Admiral from the 17th century. Cornelis was the son of Lieutenant-Admiral Johan Evertsen ...
Pierre Le Grandunknown1620 or 1660
 
1680unknown
 a French buccaneer of the 17th century. He is known to history only from one source, Alexandre Ex...
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