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Woodes Rogers 1679?-1732, British privateer and colonial administrator. A romantic figure, Rogers plundered (1708-9) Spanish commerce in the Pacific and rescued Alexander Selkirk from the Juan Fernández islands. He later (1717) leased the Bahama islands and served as the first governor there, expelling pirates and bringing orderly government.

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Rogers, Woodes (d. 1732), commander of a privateering expedition (1708–11) in which Dampier was pilot, and in the course of which Selkirk was discovered on the island of Juan Fernandez. This was among the incidents described in his entertaining journal, A Cruizing Voyage round the world (1712).

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