Manuel Ribeiro Pardal

Pardal was originally hired by the Spanish to attack English bases in the Caribbean following Captain Henry Morgan's raid on Puerto Bello in 1668.

Upon Pardal's return to Cartagena, Colombia, in 1671, a festival was held in his honor, and he was appointed "Admiral of the Corsairs" by the governor.

During that same year, he sailed with his flagship, the San Pedro, and a captured a French frigate, seizing another sloop and attacking remote villages on the northern Jamaican coastline.

According to popular lore, he wrote a poem issuing a challenge to Captain Henry Morgan, which was written on sailcloth and hung on a tree at Point Negril: The authorities in Jamaica became alarmed, to the extent that Governor Thomas Modyford authorized Captain Morgan to defend Port Royal against Pardal.

However, Morgan instead used that an excuse to assemble a fleet to launch his now-famous raid on Panama, despite the peace agreement between England and Spain following the signing of the Treaty of Madrid.