Part 3 of 5 of Blog Series: Everything you wanted to know about GUAYAQUIL… but were afraid to ask!
The most wretched pirates… During five days in 1709, pirate Woodes Rogers and his crew sojourned in Guayaquil, taking their sweet old time to loot the city’s every house (including the tombs of the cemetery), taking with them a 400-ton sculpture of Saint Vincent. English-Dutch George d’ Hout and his men, in April 1687, also […]