Nel gennaio del 1705 Rogers sposò Sarah Whetstone, figlia dell'ammiraglio Sir William Whetstone, vicino di casa e amico della famiglia . È noto per essere stato il capitano della nave che trasse in salvo il naufrago Woodes Rogers era il figlio maggiore di Woods Rogers, un capitano mercantile di successo. No warm clothes had been brought for the trip around the Drake Passage (which took them closer to Antarctica than to South America). When, later, he met some of Avery’s pirate crew, he was far more interested in socializing with them than arresting them.

He spied on the pirates instead, and learned that, while Madagascar had been a haven to retired pirates for decades, the former robbers missed civilization and wished to return home.Rogers came back to England in 1715 and presented his idea to the East India Company, he was vetoed. The rest of the pirates gathered to plan an armed resistance, but their potential alliance was hindered by the fact that they all showed up to the first meeting dead drunk.Pirates being what they were, Rogers had to fight off a couple of rebellions and an assignation attempt, but all in all the pirates gave him less trouble than the Spanish and the Royal Navy (who refused to support him and sailed off.) He stood in opposition to men like Blackbeard who sailed before the mast and suffered beatings and privation from the very start.In 1707, during the conflict that has been called both The War of Spanish Succession and Queen Anne’s War, a man named William Dampier approached young Rogers will a plan to arm a ship, obtain papers as a privateer, and sail against the Spanish. Jeunesse Woodes Rogers était le fils aîné et héritier de Woods Rogers, un capitaine marchand prospère. Scurvy set in. The younger Woodes (born in 1679) wasn’t set up in an apprenticeship until he was 19, very old for this type of education. By 1718 Woodes Rogers was off on his next adventure, this time being made the first Royal Governor of the Bahamas. Spanish vessels were few and far between.Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox!Woodes Rogers suffered personal disaster when his brother, a member of the expedition, was killed in a skirmish with the Spanish. His own book, Then came lawsuits over the disposition of the spoils. He was also armed with an unlimited number of pardons to hand out to any pirate who promised to “go straight.”The pirates were not cooperative.

Rogers was named Captain General and Governor in Chief of the Bahamas by King George I.He prepared well for this expedition, gathering seven ships, a hundred soldiers, supplies, colonists and craftsmen. The famous trading company was more afraid of a peaceful settlement in Madagascar, which might turn into a rival trading center, than of a few retired pirates.Rogers had made a small profit from the sale of the slaves, and it seems to have revived him. A tropical fever carried off half of Roger’s supporters. Rogers was sued by his own crew, and lost. To try and raise some funds, and probably to state his side of events, Woodes Rogers published a book based around his captain’s log which proved to be a best seller and hugely influential. This was the end of a marriage that was already on the rocks. He went out with a whimper, 1732, leaving only the Bahamas official motto, “Piracy expelled, commerce restored.”When the Bahamas gained their independence from Britain in 1973, the motto was changed. It’s probably a statement about the expedition that Selkirk was named first mate to the He seems to have brought luck to the expedition. Who names their son “Woodes”? He put together an expedition whose ostensible purpose was to buy slaves. Dampier was a swashbuckling figure, with a history as a privateer. Woodes lived … But the elder Rogers died only a few years later.Young Woodes Rogers became the owner of a prosperous shipping company in his mid-twenties. He himself was wounded, with a musket ball lodged in the roof of his mouth, which he carried until the expedition again reached England.A few vessels were captured along the way, and the privateers attacked a Spanish city, Guayaquil, today located in Ecuador, which managed to hide most of its valuables. The pirates were partying in Nassau, and Rodgers was sitting in a rented house, nursing his permanently deformed mouth and missing his brother.

Rogers sailed into the port at New Providence, but Charles Vane sent fire ships into the harbor, trying to destroy his small fleet, and when that did not work went off to gain Blackbeard’s help in re-taking the city.

We have found at least 200 people in the UK with the name Sarah Rogers. Click here to find personal data about Sarah Rogers including phone numbers, addresses, directorships, electoral roll information, related property prices and He had to sell his home to pay his debts. When, at age 27, he married Sarah Whetstone of the prominent Whetstone family, he became one of the most well-connected young men in the shipping town of Bristol.

TS Rhodes is the author of The Pirate Empire series. Stressato dalle pressioni dei suoi creditori e non ricevendo più aiuti dal governo centrale, Woodes Rogers ebbe problemi di salute e trascorse sei settimane a Con il governo e i suoi ex soci che si rifiutarono di onorare i suoi debiti, Rogers fu rilasciato dalla prigione solo quando i suoi creditori ebbero pietà di lui e lo ritennero assolto dai suoi debiti. Rogers didn’t know that Dampier was himself desperate for money, having just lost a fortune on his last privateering voyage, when he had faced mutiny and nearly lost his ships due to not preparing them properly against the elements.The voyage did not go well. There's a new man of the high seas in town on Black Sails season 3, but who exactly was the real Woodes Rogers?And I already know what your first question is going to be. The Rogers were unable to divorce, due to the laws of the time, but they separated permanently.In 1713, probably inspired by Dampier’s tales of the pirate island of Madagascar, Rogers conceived the idea of making the Indian Ocean safe for the very East India Company which had taken him for nearly a million pounds.