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Speaker 1: This Day in History Class is a production of I

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hi again everyone, It's Eves and welcome to

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Speaker 1: This Day in History Class, a show where history waits

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Speaker 1: for no one. Today It's January. The day was January.

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Speaker 1: Welsh privateer Henry Morgan sacked Panama, a city in Spain's

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Speaker 1: American Empire, and fire broke out. The remains of that

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Speaker 1: original city are now known as Panama vie Ho and

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Speaker 1: are just outside the current capital of Panama City. From

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Speaker 1: the sixt to the nineteenth centuries, Panama was part of

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Speaker 1: the Spanish Empire. Panama City, originally the site of a

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Speaker 1: Native American fishing village, was founded in fifteen nineteen by

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Speaker 1: Spanish conquistador Pedro Adisabla. The city was prosperous. Gold and

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Speaker 1: silver were shipped from the Andean countries to Panama City,

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Speaker 1: and from Panama City it was carried across the Isthmus

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Speaker 1: and sent off to Spain. Panama City was also a

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Speaker 1: base for the Spanish to conquer the Inca Empire in Peru.

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Speaker 1: Because Panama was such a city of riches, it was

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Speaker 1: a target for pirate attacks. Privateer Henry Morgan was known

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Speaker 1: for sacking the city of Porto Bello on the Isthmus

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Speaker 1: of Panama and raiding Lake Madracaibo on the coast of Venezuela.

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Speaker 1: But in sixteen seventy he set out to capture Panama

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Speaker 1: with dozens of ships in a couple thousand buccaneers. They

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Speaker 1: defeated a large Spanish force who had marched out of

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Speaker 1: Panama City, and on January sixteen seventy one, Morgan's group

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Speaker 1: attacked the Spanish troops in the city and began pillaging it.

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Speaker 1: Fire soon broke out in Panama City. Though Morgan was

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Speaker 1: accused of having the city burned, he likely did not,

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Speaker 1: as he would not have wanted to destroy the city

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Speaker 1: he had captured. As the city burned, the pirates continued

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Speaker 1: searching for loot. After around four weeks of looting and

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Speaker 1: searching for Spanish fugitives, the pirates took the goods and

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Speaker 1: prisoners and had it for the Atlantic port of Chagas. There,

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Speaker 1: Morgan ordered the fort as San Lorenzo destroyed. He then

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Speaker 1: left the port with most of the loot while the

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Speaker 1: remaining pirates split up. Morgan returned to Jamaica, where he

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Speaker 1: had a plantation. With his rewards, he purchased more plantations.

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Speaker 1: In sixteen seventy, England and Spain had signed the Treaty

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Speaker 1: of Madrid, in which England agreed to suppress piracy in

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Speaker 1: exchange for Spanish recognition of his sovereignty in Jamaica and

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Speaker 1: freedom of movement for English ships. So the governor of Jamaica,

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Speaker 1: who had granted Morgan permission to attack the Spanish, was

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Speaker 1: called to England for his deed, and Morgan was arrested

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Speaker 1: and sent to London in sixteen seventy two to be

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Speaker 1: tried for piracy. But Morgan did not face any serious punishment,

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Speaker 1: and six four King Charles the Second knighted him and

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Speaker 1: sent him to serve as deputy governor in Jamaica. From

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Speaker 1: that point on he remained in politics. He died in

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Speaker 1: As for Panama City, the fire had destroyed its wooden buildings,

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Speaker 1: leaving some stone structures standing. After the attack, Panama City

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Speaker 1: was relocated just south of its founding place. The ruins

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Speaker 1: of the old city are now a tourist attraction. The

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Speaker 1: location of the rebuilt city is now known as Costco Viejo.

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Speaker 1: I'm eve Jeff Coote, and hopefully you know a little

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Speaker 1: more about history today than you did yesterday. If you

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