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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Henry Morgan
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(c.1635–88, kt 1674) Welsh buccaneer whose devastating raids on Spanish territories in the *Caribbean were consistent, by the standards of the time, with positions of trust in the service of the crown – as witness his knighthood from Charles II and his position for the last years of his life as lieutenant-governor of *Jamaica.
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