page_title: John Clipperton
section_title: Privateering voyage with Dampier
hierarchical_section_title: John Clipperton / Privateering voyage with Dampier
caption_attribution_description: Español: Mapa de la Bahía y Golgo de la Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil y sus inmediaciones, según el Capitán inglés John Clipperton dedicado al Conde Roberto de Oxford [1]. Diapositiva de Consulta y acceso publico cuya información fue investigada de un libro y/o ejemplar de revisión custodiado en los Fondos Bibliográficos (Sección Siglo XVII y XVIII o Etapa Colonial) del Archivo Histórico del Guayas; Guayaquil, Ecuador.
context_page_description: John Clipperton was an English privateer who fought against the Spanish in the 18th century. He was involved in two buccaneering expeditions to the South Pacific—the first led by William Dampier in 1703, and the second under his own command in 1719. He used Clipperton Island in the eastern Pacific Ocean as a base for his raids.
context_section_description: In 1703 he sailed with the expedition of Captain William Dampier during the War of the Spanish Succession. Dampier appointed Clipperton captain of one of the Spanish ships they had taken as a prize. This first voyage of Clipperton did not proceed well. He led a mutiny against Dampier, and was later taken captive by the Spanish. The Marquis de Villa-Rocha, who would subsequently become governor of Panama, treated him with much indifference. Clipperton returned home in 1712 after four years of captivity.
  It was, however, during this journey that he is said to have discovered Clipperton Island, which he would use as a hideout. He would later become captain of the Success as part of a different privateering syndicate, in which he also held under his nominal command Captain George Shelvocke of the Speedwell. In his activities attacking Spanish targets on the west coast of the Americas, he used Clipperton Island as a base from which to stage his attacks and store loot and supplies, fortifying Clipperton Rock and expanding its cave network.
  In 1714, Clipperton attacked the Manila Galleon while the crew was resting at Cabo San Lucas at the foot of the Baja California peninsula. This incident prompted King Philip V of Spain to call for the settlement of San Diego, California, presumably as a base from which to defend the western coast of New Spain.
caption: Bahia of Guayaquil on the Spanish Main, as seen by Clipperton
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