Woodes Rogers

Woodes Rogers was an English privateer and colonial governor who led a campaign against piracy in the Bahamas, offering royal pardons and pursuing those who refused.

Benjamin Hornigold: Benjamin Hornigold was an English pirate who later accepted a pardon and helped hunt pirates in the Bahamas. Rogers recruited this former pirate as a guide and officer in the anti-piracy campaign.
Royal pardon of 1717: The Royal Pardon of 1717 offered forgiveness to pirates who surrendered to British authorities by a specified deadline. Rogers used the pardon to divide pirates willing to submit from those who continued raiding.
Privateer: A privateer was a privately owned vessel authorized by a government to attack enemy shipping during wartime. Rogers first gained prominence as a privateer operating under English authorization.
Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend: Charles Townshend was a British statesman who served as Secretary of State for the Southern Department in the early eighteenth century. Rogers’s disputes with imperial officials exposed the financial and political limits of his governorship.
Charles Vane: Charles Vane was an English pirate active in the Caribbean during the early eighteenth century. Vane rejected Rogers’s pardon and became a leading target of his administration.
Pirate Republic: The Pirate Republic was a loose pirate community based in Nassau in the early eighteenth century. Rogers’s mission was to dismantle Nassau’s pirate-centered order and restore British control.
Duke expedition: The Duke expedition was a privateering voyage led by Woodes Rogers that circumnavigated the globe from 1708 to 1711. Its success made Rogers famous and helped establish his maritime reputation before his governorship.
Piracy Act 1698: The Piracy Act 1698 was an English statute that expanded procedures for trying piracy cases outside England. The law gave imperial authorities legal tools that complemented Rogers’s enforcement campaign.
Stede Bonnet: Stede Bonnet was an English pirate known as the Gentleman Pirate, active in the Caribbean in the early eighteenth century. Bonnet’s career illustrates the pirate threat Rogers’s government sought to suppress.
Nassau: Nassau is the capital of the Bahamas, located on New Providence Island. Rogers made Nassau the base of his administration and anti-piracy operations.

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