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Show End of Gasparilla By 1821 the United States government govern-ment had made matters so difficult for Gasparilla, the famous pirate, that his pirate kingdom was broken up and its bounty of $30,000,000 divided. di-vided. As he was about to sail away, a large ship came into the bay, apparently an English merchant mer-chant ship. Gaspar at once prepared pre-pared to attack her, when she ran up the Stars and Stripes, proving herself to be a heavily armed American Amer-ican man-of-war. The pirate ship was defeated, and Gaspar, winding a piece of anchor chain around his waist. Jumped overboard and was drowned. His age was 65. |