According to legend the pirate, Jose Gaspar, was born in a village near Seville, Spain, in 1756. Supposedly the old records in the Spanish archives state that Jose Gaspar 's rise in the Navy of His Majesty, King Charles III, was little short of spectacular. However his career as an officer in the Spanish Navy was to be short lived. Based on legend Jose Gaspar was much admired as an extremely successful officer of the Spanish Navy and this caught the attention of the young wife of the Crown Prince. Jose Gaspar was not receptive to the romantic advances of the young wife of the Crown Prince and instead gave his love to one of her ladies in waiting. It has been said that, "Hell hath seen no furry such as a woman 's love scorned. " |