Woodes Rogers: Privateer and Pirate Hunter

M. Foster Farley describes the life of a great mariner and intrepid privateer; Woodes Rogers was at length appointed by a grateful government Governor-in-Chief of the Bahamas.

M.F. Farley | Published in History Today Volume 29 Issue 8 August 1979

Rogers (right) receives a map of New Providence Island from his son, in a painting by William Hogarth (1729)Rogers (right) receives a map of New Providence Island from his son, in a painting by William Hogarth (1729)On October 1

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