Woodes Rogers
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title:
Woodes Rogers
text:
Woodes Rogers was an English sea captain, privateer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of the Bahamas from 1718 to 1721 and again from 1728 to 1732. He is remembered as the captain of the vessel that rescued marooned Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk, whose plight is generally believed to have inspired Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe. Rogers came from an experienced seafaring family, grew up in Poole and Bristol, and served a marine apprenticeship to a Bristol sea captain
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British sea captain and governor of the Bahamas
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodes_Rogers
date created:
2004-11-22T15:24:38Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T13:29:13Z
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