Francisco De Cuellar, the badass you never heard of

[Canuhearme?]

This tale begins like all other great tales, with a shipwreck. You see, Francisco De Cuellar was a Spanish sea captain of a fine ship named the [I]San Pedro[/I], one of the ships in the ill-fated Spanish Armada of 1588. Of course, he wasn't commanding his ship at the time; he was to be executed on the [I]San Juan de Sicilia[/I] since he disobeyed orders to maintain formation.

Little did they know that the [I]San Juan de Sicilia[/I] was to be destroyed after a long fight a mile off the coast of Ireland.

Now, you may be asking yourself, "So? Sounds like some random dude."

He might've been just another dead Spaniard if it weren't for what happened next: He survived.

While local inhabitants were beaten the shit out of the Spaniard survivors, Fransisco managed to float onto shore and hide in bushes until they went away. Luckily for him, he lost consciousness for a couple days during this period, within which English authorities managed to round up and kill any of the Spanish survivors.

After witnessing these atrocities, De Cuellar was met with two naked Spanish soldiers who managed to survive, with nothing else to do, they tried burying some of the dead when they were confronted by people who wanted De Cuellar's clothing. After losing his clothing, De Cuellar found and stole some women's clothing and, over the course of a few months, managed to round up other Spanish survivors and became impromptu bandits of the Irish countryside.

By this time De Cuellar's numbers swelled to a mighty force of 8 men. Now for any sane person, that would barely be enough for a a bar fight, much less a bandit operation, but De Cuellar wouldn't have any of that. He dreamt [B]BIG[/B].

In November of 1588, De Cuellar and the 8 other Spaniards holed themselves up in a Lord's castle. Which prompted the English, of course, to lay siege to the castle with a force of two thousand men.

Being Spaniards, De Cuellar and his motley band of bandits managed to hold off the siege force for 17 days before escaping with no casualties. He somehow found even more Spaniards, and his numbers went up to 18.

De Cuellar and his men evaded capture by the English until he managed to actually get on another ship to escape back to Spain. Of course, his ship was blown apart by the Dutch, but De Cuellar survived again.

He was taken back to England, where he was tried and found guilty of treason and promptly beheaded.

[First 10'er]

he's pretty chill i must say

[Adius]

He is awesome and does awesome shit, then all the sudden BAM

Beheaded.

[Eudoxia]

Badass.

[Luleychan]

That does sound pretty badass, I must admit. Shame he lost his head though, I would have liked to read about his amazing escape or him having a twin that would continue his awesomeness, or any of my other horrible ideas.

[Pardalis]

Did you really have to call them Spainards?
That's offensive.

[Canuhearme?]

[QUOTE=latin_geek;21631768]Did you really have to call them Spainards?
That's offensive.[/QUOTE]

Can't make an omelet without cracking some eggs.

[hugg]

[QUOTE=latin_geek;21631768]Did you really have to call them Spainards?
That's offensive.[/QUOTE]

Your furry avatar is offensive to me.

Please remove it.

[PyromanDan]

[QUOTE=FlashStock;21631831]Your furry avatar is offensive to me.

Please remove it.[/QUOTE]

I agree.
Also this thread is offensive please remove it.

[d3450]

This is so much better than 300.

[redblade2021]

Sounds like a pretty slick dude.