The history of Tutuga, the pirate paradise of the seventeenth century, begins with Columbus's voyage westward in 1492.
After a long voyage, Spanish adventurers and Columbus arrived in the Andreas Islands in the Caribbean Sea today, their ships shuttling through the beautiful white sand islands in search of Traces of China and Japan. By the way, a Spaniard colonial stronghold was established in the north of ispanyura, the eastern part of the island is home to the present-day Dominican Republic, and the west is Haiti.
British legal pillage permit
While the Spaniards were groping the South and North American continents in search of a way to China, and were fretting about the Pacific Ocean blocking the overland route to East Asia, the gold, silver and silver mines looted by the adventurers in the ancient civilizations of the Americas greatly soothed their sense of loss in their pursuit of the treasures of the East.
Soon, the American continent became rich, and adventurers and navigators from Britain, France, and the Netherlands coveted this wealth and set sail for the Caribbean. They carried out legal pirate plundering of Spanish ships that were in a hostile state at the time with government licenses, but their ships were not called pirate ships at the time, but privateers.
A pirate paradise for privateers and cattle hunters
The captain of each privateer had several privateers issued by different countries, and with these robbery certificates they dared to plunder any ship, even their own.
At the same time that privateers from various countries came to the Caribbean Sea, a large number of Huguenots who fled the persecution of the French government also fled to the Caribbean islands. These people often hide on sparsely populated islands or settle in uninhabited places to hunt bison or livestock for a living, hence the name cattle hunters."
After the cattle hunters killed the cattle, they burned the meat on the coast and sold it to passing ships. Over time, these cattle hunters colluded with the pirates and colluded with each other. The expansion of piracy led to the repeated looting of merchant ships, posing a serious threat to maritime trade.
These sea raids later led to a massive purge by the Spaniards, so the cattle hunters and pirates began to conceive of finding a more suitable stronghold, and finally they found a small island, which was suitable as a stronghold for their plundering of merchant ships, that is, Totuga Island.
Located in the northwest of Haiti, Tutuga Island faces Haiti across a waterway and looks like a turtle swimming on the waves, hence the name Turtle Island. The coast of Tutuja is steep and mountainous and difficult to access, with only one bay in the south suitable for port use, and from here it is easy to reach is Ispanura, and cuba, Mexico, and the coasts of Central and South America are quite easy to reach by monsoons and ocean currents. Soon these cattle hunters gathered on Tutujia Island. The treasure they plundered at sea attracted merchants and women to the area, and Tutujia Gradually multiplied into small towns and became a paradise for pirates.
Before 1640, Tutuga Had been under the control of the British, and had been swept by the Spanish army many times, and the island was in a long period of turmoil, until the Frenchman Le Vasseur and his friends came to Tutuga island, and the island's status as a Caribbean pirate paradise was determined.
Le Fasser, a French Huguenot and specialized engineer, was ordered to lead a group of Huguenot associates, who, with the help of a group of cattle hunters, attacked Tutuga Island and drove out the British who were entrenched on the island.
Le Fasser then used his expertise in defensive engineering to construct easy-to-defend defensive forts along the island's dangerous terrain, and then even simply cut off his formal ties with the French government, repelling the incoming French troops, and then Tutuga Island under Le Fasser's rule, completely became a pirate base in the Caribbean.
During the reign of Le Fasser, the port of Tutuga became a free trade port. Here cattle hunters can sell leather or smoked meat from hunting, they can also find buyers for looted stolen goods, and they can sell women from all over the world into wine money, living a drunken life of wine and drunkenness, and taverns and brothels have become the most prosperous industries on the island. Le Fasser allowed all the pirates to come here to sell the booty, never asking the source, but on the condition that a portion of the booty be presented to him.
On the other hand, his rule on Titujia Island became more and more dictatorial and his methods became more and more brutal, and he even built a prison called the "Purification House", and almost all the prisoners were tortured and persecuted by the organs he designed by him and were disabled for life.
In 1652, two of his cronies finally could no longer bear the tyranny and killed him, and it happened that the newly sent French army came to conquer Tutuga, and the pirates who killed Le Fasser did not confront the French army, and the two sides soon reached an agreement to determine the French dominance on Tutuga, and Catholicism became the only legitimate faith on the island.
Not long after the return of Tutuga to French sovereignty, the Spanish army came again to drive away the pirates on the island and set up a colonial stronghold, until the British fleet attacked in 1655 and the Spaniards withdrew.
After the Spaniards left, the British quietly returned to Toutuga Island, which continued to become a pirate stronghold, but soon the French expelled the British, and the British counterattacked several times without success, and finally the French won the dominance of Tutuga Island.
It is said that during Dorjeron's tenure as french governor of Tutuga, he believed that the best way to consolidate France's dominance on Tutuga was to allow pirates to start a family and have a sense of belonging, so he decided to bring in women from mainland France. In 1666, the first French women arrived on Totuga, and when the ships moored in the bay, the pirates waited in a semicircle on the beach, and many even shaved off their beards for many years, and the beach was silent until the last boat brought the woman ashore.
The pirates who selected these women had to pay the woman's fare for the voyage, and they had to treat the woman as a partner rather than a slave, and if the woman was treated badly, she could turn to the chief for help to terminate the relationship between the two parties; If a pirate is killed in a predatory operation or sails for too long and does not return, the woman is free to find another partner.
Although some people on Tutujia Island resented the low quality of these women, their arrival did increase the island's population growth, which in turn led to a more profitable sugar industry. Later, the French gradually established new French colonial strongholds on the north and west sides of Ispanura Island opposite Tutuga Island, and the culmination of these tactics was the later French colony of Haiti.
On the other hand, after the British occupied the island of Jamaica in 1655, the island's Wong Kergang became another Caribbean pirate paradise, where pirates and Tutuga pirates were not only connected to each other, but sometimes even joined forces with large targets. The sunken hotels and prostitutes in Wong Ka Kung Ang have made continental European apologists the sin city of the New World. It was not until an earthquake and tsunami in 1692 that the port and the town were destroyed.