Manuel Ribeiro Pardal
Manuel Ribeiro Pardal (died 1671), also known as Manuel Rivero Pardal or Pardel, was a 17th-century Portuguese privateer in Spanish service during the late 1660s and early 1670s.
Biography
Pardal was originally hired by the Spanish to attack English bases in the Caribbean following Captain
While in Cuba, he encountered Dutch pirate
- "I come to seek General Morgan with two shippes of twenty guns and, having seen this, I crave he would come out upon ye coast to seeke mee, that hee might see ye valour of ye Spanish."
The authorities in Jamaica became alarmed, to the extent that Governor Thomas Modyford authorized Captain Morgan to defend Port Royal against Pardal. However, Morgan instead used that an excuse to assemble a fleet to launch his now-famous raid on Panama, despite the peace agreement between England and Spain following the signing of the Treaty of Madrid.
Pardal was eventually killed, and his flagship San Pedro y Fama captured, off the north coast of Cuba, in battle against Captain John Morris, a lieutenant of Captain Morgan.[1]
References
- ISBN 0-9544060-3-6