1670, Caribbean Sea. She's the daughter of a legendary pirate. He's a Spanish captain. Their countries are at war. Their fathers killed each other. And they were destined to follow on their steps.
But sometimes destiny isn't written in stone: it's w...
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On this map of Jamaica, the arrow at the bottom points at a soil and sand bar south of Kingston Bay. That was were Port Royal was located, the town with three taverns per home that god-fearing people back in the day called "New Babylon". It was the main city and harbor of the island, and the seat of colonial government.
On June 7, 1692, an earthquake and the following tsunami swallowed two thirds of the city --including Henry Morgan's grave!-- killing more than half the population. The survivors crossed the bay. Some of them moved to Spanish Town, while the government of the island and the rest of the people founded Kingston.
Jamaica was a Spanish colony and the English first attacked it in 1596. Four attacks later, in 1655, they finally took it over and it became an English colony.
Funny trivia bits:
*Port Royal is the only city portrayed in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and TV shows like Crossbones. However, they're all set in the early 1700s, and by then the city didn't exist anymore.
*This wasn't the first Port Royal in the Caribbean. That title belongs to a town and harbor in Roatan, the largest island of the Bay Islands in the Gulf of Honduras. Since the Spaniards hadn't populated the island, the English did in 1638. It soon became a great berthing for pirates that wanted to make a living out of attacking Spaniards ships. And their harbor was called, yes, you got it: Port Royal. In 1650, the Spaniards kicked them off Roatan and the island remained uninhabited for decades, but it was still used as a rendevouz point for pirates.
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