Bartholomew Sharp
He rose to command his own vessel in the West Indies and attacked Dutch ships in the Leeward Islands.
The natural scientist and Buccaneer William Dampier suggested his first major raid was on the Central American town of Segovia.
According to the governor of Jamaica, from the Calendar of State Papers: "There has been lately taken from the Spaniards by Coxon, Bartholomew Sharpe, Bothing, and Hawkins with their crew, 500 chests of indigo, a great quantity of cacao, cochineal, tortoiseshell, money and plate.
Bournano and Rose chose to leave the voyage, and the remaining pirates voted to attack the city of Panama, once again under John Coxon.
They sailed for Golden Island and left their ships in the hands of skeleton crews off the coast of Darién.
They included William Dampier, Welsh surgeon and naturalist Lionel Wafer and ship's doctor Basil Ringrose.
Fifty men charged the breastworks and breached the walls; after a mêlée within the fort, the Spanish surrendered.
The Kuna guides led the pirates downriver to the Bay of San Miguel in the Gulf of Panama.
The governor of Panama refused their ransom and inquired after who gave the buccaneers a commission to attack Spanish cities in a time of peace.
Admiral Sawkins replied: "As yet all his company were not come together; but that when they were come up we would come and visit him at Panama, and bring our commissions on the muzzles of our guns, at which time he should read them as plain as the flame of gunpowder could make them."
Sharpe suspected former captain and fellow buccaneer Edmund Cooke of involvement in his ouster and had him imprisoned, ostensibly over charges of buggery.
[3] Shortly thereafter fifty more men left the voyage, including William Dampier and Lionel Wafer.
Sharp had planned to return to England via the Strait of Magellan, but a storm pushed the Trinity too far south, forcing him to navigate the Cape.
William Dampier gave a brief account of his time with Captain Sharp and the buccaneers in A New Voyage Round the World (1697).
However, he presented the authorities with a book of maps taken from the Spanish ship El Santo Rosario ("Holy Rosary") in July 1681.
