Laurens Prins

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Laurens Prins (in the English version Lawrence Prince , * before 1659 in Amsterdam , United Netherlands , † after February 1717 ) was a Dutch privateer and buccaneer . He was involved in Henry Morgan's attack on Panama in 1671.

biography

After the British conquered Jamaica in 1655, heavy losses forced them to freely issue letters of piracy. One of the first privateers of the Jamaican colonial government was the Dutchman Laurens Prins. After the British naval officer Christopher Myngs had sacked several Spanish colonies in 1659 and then returned to Jamaica, he sold the second largest ship he had captured to Prins. He named his new ship the Pearl .

In the course of the Anglo-Dutch War from 1665 to 1667 , Prins commanded the frigate of the British buccaneer Robert Searle and sacked the Dutch island of Bonaire on February 11, 1665 . On February 14, the Lieutenant Governor Nieuw Nederlands therefore issued an arrest warrant for Prins. Prins later bought a plantation in Jamaica. In the late spring of 1670, Prins sacked the Colombian city ​​of Mompós . On August 17, 1670, Prins captured Fort San Carlos de Austria in what is now Pensacola . In September 1670 he invaded Granada . He took hostages and demanded 70,000 pesos from the Spanish authorities as a ransom. He returned to Jamaica on October 29, 1670 and received a slight reprimand from then Governor Thomas Modyford for his unauthorized attacks on Hispanic America . Thereafter, the latter asked him to join Henry Morgan .

While Morgan was preparing to attack Panama , he named Prins as his second deputy. During the attack in January 1671, Prins had led the vanguard of 300 to 500 men who attacked the Spanish army on the left flank. After Prins captured a hill on the Spanish flank, Morgan advanced. A Spanish counterattack on the hill held by Prins failed.

In April 1671, Prins returned to Port Royal . There he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant Governor by the new Governor Thomas Lynch . From 1672 Prins owned several plantations in the Liguanea plain in today's Saint Andrew Parish district . In January 1680, a man named Samuel Long Prins sued the new governor Charles Howard . He accused him of helping pirates .

In 1717, Prins commanded the slave ship Whydah on trading voyages on the Atlantic coast. At the end of February, the ship was discovered by the pirate Samuel Bellamy in the Windward Passage . After a three-day chase, Prins gave up on the Exuma Islands and handed the ship over to the pirates without a fight. For several days they loaded their booty and armaments from their own ship, the Sultana , onto the Whydah. Prince's crew were offered to join the pirates. Anyone who refused to follow the pirates were left on the Sultana with Prins .

Trivia

Laurens Prins appears as the antagonist in the video game Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stephen Snelders: The Devil's Anarchy: The Sea Robberies of the Most Famous Pirate Claes G. Compaen, and The Very Remarkable Travels of Jan Erasmus Reyning, Buccaneer . Autonomedia, 2005. ISBN 1570271615 . P. 90.
  2. ↑ a b New York (State). Secretary's Office: Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, NY: Dutch manuscripts, 1630-64 . Weed, Parsons, printers, 1865. p. 334.
  3. ^ A b c David F. Marley: Daily Life of Pirates . ABC-CLIO, 2012. ISBN 0313395640 . S. XVIII, XXII, 7, 168, 169.
  4. ^ A b c David Marley: Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the Western Hemisphere, 1492 to the Present , Volume 2. ABC-CLIO, 2008. ISBN 1598841009 . Pp. 236, 247, 268.
  5. ↑ a b c Jon Latimer. Buccaneers of the Caribbean. Harvard University Press, 2009. ISBN 0674034031 . Pp. 130, 207, 217.
  6. ^ Angus Konstam: Piracy: The Complete History . Osprey Publishing, 2008. ISBN 1846032407 . Pp. 137, 139.
  7. ^ Angus Konstam: Scourge of the Seas: Buccaneers, Pirates and Privateers . Osprey Publishing, 2007. ISBN 1846032113 . P. 45.
  8. ^ Angus Konstam: Buccaneers 1620-1700 . Osprey Publishing, 2000. ISBN 1855329123 . Pp. 25-27.
  9. ^ David Marley: Pirates of the Americas , Volume 1. ABC-CLIO, 2010. ISBN 1598842013 . Pp. 328-329.
  10. ^ Colin Woodard: The Republic of Pirates: Being the true and surprising story of the Caribbean pirates and the man who brought them down . Pan Macmillan, 2014. ISBN 144724608X .
  11. ↑ Kenneth J. Kinkor: Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship . National Geographic Books, 2007. ISBN 1426202628 . P. 76.
personal data
SURNAME Prins, Laurens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prince, Lawrence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch privateer and buccaneer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1659
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH after February 1717