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    governor, Rogers died in Nassau aged about 53. Woodes Rogers was the eldest son and heir of Woods Rogers, a successful merchant captain. Woodes Rogers spent...
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    Joseph Byrne in the BBC One series Holby City (2006–2011, 2019–2022) and Woodes Rogers in the Starz series Black Sails (2016–2017). He then played Ser Arthur...
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  • Rogers may refer to: Captain Woodes Rogers, an English sea captain, privateer, and the first Royal Governor of the Bahamas Captain William C. Rogers III...
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    now Colombia. By the time he was eventually rescued by the privateer Woodes Rogers, who was accompanied by Dampier, Selkirk had become adept at hunting...
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    Royal Governor of the Bahama Islands Woodes Rogers reached Nassau in 1718 and restored British control. Rogers, a former privateer himself, offered clemency...
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    clothing some had worn. Whilst at Charles Town, Teach learned that Woodes Rogers had left England with several men-of-war, with orders to purge the West...
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  • on the war for the control of New Providence between the pirates and Woodes Rogers. Toby Stephens as James McGraw/Flint Hannah New as Eleanor Guthrie Luke...
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  • pursuing his former allies on behalf of the Governor of the Bahamas, Woodes Rogers. He was killed when his ship was wrecked on a reef near New Spain during...
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    for pirates to obtain a royal pardon and commission from Governor Woodes Rogers. Rogers had been sent to the Bahamas to address the problem of pirates in...
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  • Callis as Benjamin Hornigold Tom Padley as Charles Vane Kevin Howarth as Woodes Rogers Evan Milton as Samuel Bellamy Samuel Collings as Paulsgrave Williams...
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    captured on 22 December 1709 by a British privateering expedition led by Woodes Rogers and renamed Bachelor. The name Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación y Desengaño...
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  • Proprietor Alfred Hamilton, from London. (seasons 2, 4) Luke Roberts as Woodes Rogers: English Captain determined to end piracy in Nassau for good. (seasons...
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    real-life circumnavigation of the Earth in two ships, under the command of Woodes Rogers. It is notable for including a firsthand account of castaway Alexander...
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    Captain Woodes Rogers as Royal governor. He successfully clamped down on the pirates, reformed the civil administration, and restored commerce. Rogers cleaned...
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    most of her crew. Selkirk was not rescued until four years later, by Woodes Rogers. Selkirk's travails provided part of the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's...
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    Woodes Rogers as royal governor. He successfully suppressed pirates, reformed the civil administration and restored trade. In February, 1719 Rogers had...
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  • assigned to fight piracy in the West Indies alongside Woodes Rogers. In 1718, he accompanies Rogers to the Pirate Republic of Nassau to offer the King's...
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  • Rankin Rogers (1838–1901), 3rd Governor of Washington Richard Reid Rogers (1867–1949), 3rd Military Governor of Panama Canal Zone Woodes Rogers (1679–1732)...
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    to materialise and the date for Rogers' arrival approached, Vane and his crew prepared to leave Nassau. Woodes Rogers arrived in Nassau in late July 1718...
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    pardon and a letter of marque from Governor of New Providence Captain Woodes Rogers. The War of the Quadruple Alliance had begun, and England hoped to make...
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    was back at Nassau on 22 July 1718 when Woodes Rogers reached Nassau to take office as the new governor. Rogers' ships trapped Vane in the harbour. Vane's...
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    seen in period sources and dates only to the 1950s. Around 1718, when Woodes Rogers became governor of the Bahamas, and was tasked with ridding the Caribbean...
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    Hornigold resumed full-time work as a privateer under the operations of Woodes Rogers, Governor of The Bahamas. Hornigold spent the remainder of his life...
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    sanctuary for pirates. Johnson claims that, after the arrival of Governor Woodes Rogers in the summer of 1718, James Bonny became a minor officer for the governor...
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  • novel features real historical figures like Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Woodes Rogers, and Juan Ponce de León alongside fictional ones. The book was also...
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    merchant seaman and privateer, later Royal Governor of the Bahama Islands, Woodes Rogers. List of Latin phrases "dum spiro, spero". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved...
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  • and his pirate crew 1718–1723. Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509-4312-2 Woodes Rogers, Cruising Voyage Round the World, 1712. Baker, Joseph. The Confession...
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    recruits until the arrival of Governor Woodes Rogers in 1718, which signalled the end of the Republic of Pirates. Rogers and other British governors had the...
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  • in solitude for four years and four months, before being rescued by Woodes Rogers in 1709. His experience was one of the likely sources of inspiration...
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    they venture out. The former privateer and governor of the Bahamas Woodes Rogers, who was in London at the time, was consulted by the Government as to...
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