Nickname Cabeza de Perro Other name Cabeza de Perro | Base of operations Caribbean Rank Piracy | |
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Born 1800 Igueste de San Andrés, Tenerife, Spain Died Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain Similar Amaro Rodriguez Felipe, José Gaspar, Alonso de Contreras | ||
Ángel García, nicknamed Cabeza de Perro (Igueste de San Andrés, Tenerife, Canary Islands, 1800 - Santa Cruz de Tenerife, ¿?, Tenerife, Canary Islands), was a Spanish pirate. Their physical characteristics will come your nickname which translates as Dog Head.
Biography
Ángel García was born in Igueste de San Andrés in 1800, in a small white house next to the sea. Possibly since his youth he was engaged in piracy.
Conducts its operational activities on the African coast, mainly in the Caribbean. In the district of San Lázaro, in La Habana (Cuba) he owned a large mansion that was full of mirrors and lamps with gold inlay, all fruit of plunder and pillage. The most famous episode was the pirate assault that since its flagship "El Invencible", a brig made its way from La Habana to New York City. In the scuffle he stabbed the crew and passengers, except a woman and her son, who had hidden. However, when both were discovered were thrown into the sea and drowned.
In the following days, the pirate Cabeza de Perro could not stop thinking about that terrible scene and decided to leave his pirate activity and return to his homeland to take up farming. All the way from the Caribbean to the Canary Islands the pirate did not leave his cabin, until arrival at the coast of Tenerife he hurried out to see the Teide and his hometown.
Upon returning to the Canary Islands, he was arrested at Castillo de Paso Alto of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where he was executed. It is said that moments before execution ordered a cigar, donated the model of a brig to the Virgin of Mount Carmel and to demonstrate arrogant personality until the end, a red scarf arrayed in the head and glanced and a wry smile as he received the shots that killed him.
Similarly happens with the famous privateer (also a native of Tenerife) Amaro Pargo, there is a popular belief that the pirate Cabeza de Perro also had a hidden treasure in this case hidden in a cave on a beach near their village native.