{"id":1262,"date":"2015-08-06T01:34:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T05:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirates.blkline.com\/?page_id=1262"},"modified":"2021-09-24T23:36:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T03:36:06","slug":"captain-miguel-henriquez","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pirates.missiledine.com\/index.php\/captain-miguel-henriquez\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Miguel Henriquez"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/pirates.missiledine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Henriquez1.jpg\" alt=\"Capt Henriquez\" width=\"219\" height=\"349\"><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capt Miguel Henriquez<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><big><b>Captain Miguel Henriquez (c. 1680), born in Puerto Rico.<\/b><\/big><\/p>\n<p>Henriquez, a mulatto, was a shoemaker by occupation. Until, in the latter years of the 17th century, Henriquez decided to try his luck as a pirate. He has intercepted English merchant ships and other ships the seas of Puerto Rico and the Atlantic Ocean in general.<\/p>\n<p>During the war he organized an expeditionary force which fought and defeated the British in the island of Vieques. Henriquez was received as a national hero when he returned the island of Vieques back to the Spanish Empire and to the governorship of Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>In recognition for his services, the Spanish Crown, under the order of King Philip V, awarded Miguel Henriquez with &#8220;La Medalla de Oro de la Real Efigie&#8221; (The Gold Medal of the Royal Effigy) in 1713 and named him Captain of the Seas and Land, The Spanish Crown also gave him a special permit to do his pirate activities in the name of Spain. The letter of marque and reprisal granted him the privileges of privateer.<\/p>\n<p>Since the end of the war Henriquez has surrendered his letters of Marque and now operates under license from the Crown as a&nbsp; pirate hunter.<\/p>\n<p>Henriquez is one of the richest men in Puerto Rico. He owns five ships and has at least 500 men working for him.<br \/>\nCaptain Henriquez&#8217;s fleet includes an 8 gun single masted sloop, a 12 gun single masted sloop, an 18 gun Barque, a 26 gun&nbsp; two masted sloop of war and a 32 gun&nbsp; square rigged merchant ship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Captain Miguel Henriquez (c. 1680), born in Puerto Rico. Henriquez, a mulatto, was a shoemaker by occupation. Until, in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pirates.missiledine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pirates.missiledine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pirates.missiledine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pirates.missiledine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pirates.missiledine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pirates.missiledine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"https:\/\/pirates.missiledine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1262\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pirates.missiledine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}