Robert Drummond
Captain Robert Drummond was a member of the Company of Scotland's 1698 expedition to try to establish a trading colony at Darien in Panama. He was the brother of Captain Thomas Drummond.
In the first abandonment of the Darien colony in July 1699, Robert commanded the Caledonia which sailed with 250 survivors to New York. He subsequently took the vessel home to Scotland.
Robert Drummond later commanded the Speedy Return on an voyage to the Guinea coast, with his brother Thomas as supercargo. Instead of trying to sell trade goods for gold as the Company's directors had intended, the Drummond brothers exchanged them for slaves, whom they sold in Madagascar. Carousing with the buccaneers for whom the island was a refuge, the Drummonds fell in with pirate John Bowen, who offered them loot if they would lend him their ship for a raid on homeward bound Indiamen. Drummond backed out of the agreement, only to have Bowen appropriate the ship while he was ashore. Bowen later scuttled the Speedy Re…more
In the first abandonment of the Darien colony in July 1699, Robert commanded the Caledonia which sailed with 250 survivors to New York. He subsequently took the vessel home to Scotland.
Robert Drummond later commanded the Speedy Return on an voyage to the Guinea coast, with his brother Thomas as supercargo. Instead of trying to sell trade goods for gold as the Company's directors had intended, the Drummond brothers exchanged them for slaves, whom they sold in Madagascar. Carousing with the buccaneers for whom the island was a refuge, the Drummonds fell in with pirate John Bowen, who offered them loot if they would lend him their ship for a raid on homeward bound Indiamen. Drummond backed out of the agreement, only to have Bowen appropriate the ship while he was ashore. Bowen later scuttled the Speedy Re…more
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The Darien Disaster: a Scots Colony in the New World, 1698 - 1700
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1968
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Darien: A Journey in Search of Empire
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2016
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The Price of Scotland: Darien, Union and the Wealth of Nations
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2007
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