Captain Morgan calls all the nearby ex-pirates to rejoin him in attacking the Spanish Main. One industrious crew steals an extra ship on the way there.

>One captain of a merchant ship, ordered by the ship’s nervous owner to sail to Campeche for a load of logwood, thus putting himself out of reach of the war mobilization, secretly recruited some of the Port’s renowned buccaneers, loaded extra cannon into his hold, and went rogue. He quickly came across and overpowered a fast, eight-gun Spanish ship, renamed her the *Thomas*, and sailed both vessels to [Morgan](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Henry_Morgan_in_colour.jpg)’s rendezvous. ____________________________ **Source:** Talty, Stephan. “Black Clouds to the East.” *Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan’s Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws’ Bloody Reign*. New York: Crown Publishing Group (NY), 2007. 192. Print. ____________________________ **Further Reading:** [Harri Morgan / Sir Henry Morgan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morgan)