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Events
- The pirate biography, The life and adventures of Capt. John Avery, the famous English pirate, (rais'd from a cabbin-boy, to a King) now in possession of Madagascar published in the UK[1] and becomes a bestseller.[2][3]
- April - Privateer Woodes Rogers and the ships Duke and Duchess raid Guayaquil in the Viceroyalty of Peru.[4][5][6]
- December 22 - Rogers captures the Desengaño, one of the two Manila galleons, off Cabo San Lucas. Rogers is wounded.[7][8]
- December 25 - Rogers's Duke and Duchess attack the Begoña, the larger of the two Manila galleons, and are repulsed with heavy losses.
References
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- ↑ Saunders, G. (2008, January 03). Rogers, Woodes (c. 1679–1732), privateer and colonial governor. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 14 Nov. 2024, from https://www-oxforddnb-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-24006.
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