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The Pirate History Podcast

Episode 185 - An Enemy of All Good

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4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

William Phips returned from the Battle of Port Royal in triumph. He leveraged that into political clout, and finally into the governorship of Massachusetts. His first days as governor though, were consumed by dark forces. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an airwave media podcast.

0:05.6

Today's episode is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon, including our Commodore

0:10.4

class.

0:11.4

That's Commodore's obvious, scurvy legs, Kruger, Brendan, MD, Bigbeard, Schmarrals, Josiah,

0:24.3

Logan, Cannon Monkey, Axios, The Night of Dampere, Pablo, Nikki, Governor Roup, Toves,

0:35.8

Jinsook Jim, Ward, Workman, Rum Runner, Skipper, Drunken Dack, Eric The Red, The Pirate

0:45.4

Pneopolis, Heifey, Matthew the Navigator, Bull, Vertagon, Ginnes, Rumgut, and Bootstrap

0:54.8

Spaley.

0:56.5

And our newest patrons, Brett, Nathaniel and Neil.

1:15.4

Hello, welcome to the Pirate History podcast.

1:33.4

My name is Matt, thank you for listening.

1:36.7

Following the Battle of Port Royal, while enjoying the spoils afforded by that raid, provost

1:42.8

Marshall of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, William Phipps, decided to press his luck.

1:48.8

He allied himself with two Puritan ministers, the Harvard-educated father and son duo of

1:55.0

Increase and Cotton Mather.

1:57.3

Phipps was baptized into a Puritan church.

1:59.6

He was welcomed into the fold of Puritan politics by all of Boston's finest.

2:05.5

He lobbied for and eventually led the follow-up attack on Canada, the disastrous Battle

2:11.3

of Quebec.

2:13.1

We were going to talk about that battle today, but there wasn't much I found there that

2:16.7

we didn't cover during the Battle of Port Royal.

2:19.6

It was a much larger force that sailed on Quebec, but the French repelled the English

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