Roche Braziliano
Roche Braziliano | |
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Port Royal, Jamaica |
Roche Braziliano (sometimes spelled Rock, Roch, Roc, Roque, Brazilliano, Brasiliaan
Pirate career
Roche Braziliano was a notoriously cruel
Atrocities
Drunken and debauched, Braziliano would threaten to shoot anyone who did not drink with him. He roasted alive two Spanish farmers on wooden spits after they refused to hand over their pigs. He treated his Spanish prisoners barbarously, typically cutting off their limbs or roasting them alive over a fire.[6] The Spaniards feared him so much, that Spanish mothers used his name as a hush word for their children.[7]
Fate
After 1671, Braziliano was never seen or heard from again. To this day, nobody knows what became of the Dutch pirate. Whether he (and his vessel and men) were lost at sea in a brutal storm, was secretly captured, or possibly retired and lived the rest of his life in anonymity is a matter of debate.
Popular culture
- A pirate named Roc Brasiliano was portrayed by Anthony Quinn in the 1952 swashbuckler film Against All Flags.
- Roche Braziliano is one of the pirates featured in the game Sid Meier's Pirates!
- The ghost of Captain Roche is found as a boss battle in Abbey Games' Renowned Explorers: International Society.
- May be the namesake of the One Piece character Rocks D. Xebec.
- "Rock Braziliano" is featured in the Boardgame "Tortuga 1667" as a playable character
See also
References
- General
- Pickering, David. "Pirates". CollinsGem. HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY. pp-52, 201. 2006.
- Specific
- ISBN 1-4039-6692-3.
- ^ Zuidhoek, Arne (2006). Piratenencyclopedie (in Dutch). pp. 20–24.
- ISBN 0-7513-6035-X.
- ISBN 1-60303-278-9
- ISBN 9781598842012. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
- ^ Pickering, David. "Pirates"
- ^ The Monarchs of the Main. Routledge, Warne, & Routledge. 1861.