d'aves

Updated: May 27, 2025

The united fleet of over thirty vessels sailed for Curaçao on 7th May, but on the fourth day following, at about eight o'clock in the evening, was wrecked upon some coral reefs near the Isle d'Aves.

Clarence Henry Haring - The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century

However this may be, one of the principal buccaneer leaders, named de Grammont, was left by de Pouançay at the Isle d'Aves to recover what he could from the wreck, and to repair some of the privateering vessels.

Clarence Henry Haring - The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century

His squadron met with little success, however, and soon scattered. Other bands of filibusters pillaged Campeache, Puerto Principe in Cuba, Santo Tomas on the Orinoco, and Truxillo in the province of Honduras; and de Pouançay, to console the buccaneers for their losses at the Isle d'Aves, sent 800 men under the Sieur de Franquesnay to make a descent upon St.

Clarence Henry Haring - The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century

De Grammont retired to the Isle d'Aves to nurse his wound, and after a long convalescence returned to Petit Goave. In 1683, however, these filibusters of Hispaniola carried out a much larger design upon the coasts of New Spain. In April of that year eight buccaneer captains made a rendezvous in the Gulf of Honduras for the purpose of attacking Vera Cruz.

Clarence Henry Haring - The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century