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Woodes Rogers ( c. 1679 – 15 July 1732) was an English sea captain, privateer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of the Bahamas from 1718 to 1721 and again from 1728 to 1732.
Sep 10, 2021 · Woodes Rogers (1679-1732) was a privateer turned administrator who was instrumental in the fight against piracy in the Caribbean when he served as Governor of the Bahamas (appointed 1717 and again in 1728).
- Mark Cartwright
Woodes Rogers was an English privateer and governor of the Bahamas who helped suppress piracy in the Caribbean. Rogers commanded a privateering expedition (1708–11) around the world, sponsored by Bristol merchants whose ships had been lost to foreign privateers. In 1709 he rescued Alexander.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 6, 2018 · Woodes Rogers died in 1732, leaving behind a legacy of brutality against pirates. After all, he coined the slogan of The Bahamas, “Piracy expelled, commerce restored.” The British colony kept the motto until it gained independence in 1973.
- William Delong
Woodes Rogers was an English sea captain and privateer who was twice appointed as the Royal Governor of the Bahamas. He was the captain of the ship that rescued Alexander Selkirk, a Royal Navy officer who spent more than four years marooned on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean.
Woodes Rogers was an English sea captain, privateer, slave trader and, from 1718, the first Royal Governor of the Bahamas. He is remembered as the captain of the vessel that rescued marooned Alexander Selkirk, whose plight is generally believed to have inspired Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
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Woodes Rogers died at Nassau in 1732. He will always be remembered as a remarkable man , the hero of the nation who expelled all pirates and brought an order to Bahamas and the most of the Caribbean Sea.
