Word: matadorean
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...Porto Bello he forced captured monks and nuns to carry the scaling ladders; it tickled him to see the Spaniards forced to shoot down their sacred compatriots. At the fight at Matasnillos the Spaniards stampeded 1,500 bulls against the buccaneers: Morgan's men indulged in no matadorean antics, routed the bulls with a musket volley. Morgan's only serious repulse, says Biographer Roberts, was after the taking of Panama, when one of the beauteous captives caught his weather eye. He laid siege to her virtue by attrition and guile, but did not carry her, buccaneer-like...
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