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...Juan, Porto Rico...
Morgan was primarily a land fighter. His plan was to cripple Spain's power in the Caribbean by raiding and destroying her chief ports. He sacked successively Puerto Principe, Porto Bello, Maracaibo, Gibraltar, Panama City. When he stormed the last defences of 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...
...Scotland he organized the "Company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies." In 1698, "amidst the tears and prayers of relatives and friends and countrymen," he, his wife and child accompanied 1,200 colonists to Darien. They settled between Porto Bello and Cartagena, two strong Spanish ports, there intended to build a canal and establish a free trade route "whereby to Britain would be secured the key to the universe, enabling their possessors to give laws to both oceans and to become the arbiters of a commercial world." The Spanish soon drove the colony out. Paterson's family...
Dependencies. "Independence for the Philippines. . . . Ultimate statehood for Porto Rico...
...Government at a total cost of approximately $400,000, and under easy credit terms, a fleet of eight vessels estimated to have cost the Government in the neighborhood of $8,000,000. These ships are now engaged from the Pacific Northwest and California via the Panama Canal to Porto Rico and Buenos Aires, principally for the purpose of marketing lumber. This firm was thus granted distinct monopolistic privileges by the Government in the marketing of lumber in Porto Rico and Argentine, and accordingly proceeded to "squeeze out" of these markets any competing American firms who were left without transportation facilities...