President Ned Daggerkidd



NOW AND THEN
Ned Daggerkidd is a young Irish immigrant. He came to the caribbean as a young teenager and has joined up with some Irishmen that he grew up with in the same county. When Ned was a boy, back in Ireland, he worked with his father on their family farm along with his older brother Cody. His mother and little sister Hannah worked at the house and cooked the meals. They had a large farm, but were not allowed to make use of all their goods that they produced because the English collectors took it all. Finally his family packed up their things and made their way to the caribbean hoping for a better life.

IN THE CARIBBEAN
When Ned and his family arrived in the caribbean, they needed work, and found it hard to keep dinner on the table. Ned was a master and Blackjack, with a few extra cards to swap that is. He made lots of money and helped keep food on the table for him and his family.

In his late teenage year's, he and his brother hooked up with a band of Irish Rebels in the caribbean that put small attacks on the Navy. Him and his older brother Cody were involved in an attack on the Padres Fort, Fort Dundee, and they fought brilliantly, but they were outnumbered. After a long while of battling, the Navy began to push them back. They made the choice to fall back, as they ran down the hill out of Fort Dundee, the Navy shot them in the back and several of them went down. As they made it past the jail, they imagined they would be able to get away in their ship of which they came, but when they looked to the horizon, they saw their burning War Frigate sinking just off shore with a Navy Ship of the Line about a hundred yards away from it. The Navy soldiers were already getting off their row boat and intercepted the Rebels. Ned and his brother fought side by side, the best soldiers out of them all. Then, the Navy charged. Cody and Ned drew their cutlasses and met them as they charged. It was a bloody scene for the next 10 minutes. Cody was fighting two Navy at the same time, he was holding up well, he had managed to cut down the soldier to his right before a Navy Musketeer fired a shot from a few yards away, striking Cody in the head, and Cody went down. Ned, seeing this, went mad with rage, he cut down Navy soldiers right and left. One by one, he and his friend Destroyer fought with a new energy. They were going strong, 5, 6, 10 soldiers taken out. They were fired up with rage. Until there were 5 Navy swordsmen left and about 10 musketeers. Ned and Destroyer looked around to see all of their men were dead, they were the last alive. They surrended.