Martinique

Martinique
General information
Location	Lesser Antilles, Caribbean
Societal
Affiliation	France French Royal Navy
Behind the scenes
First appearance	The Price of Freedom
Latest appearance	The Price of Freedom

"Do you recall Saint Dominique?"
"La Martinique. I tried to kill you in Saint Dominique."

―Jack Sparrow and Angelica

Martinique, also known as La Martinique, was an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It was located directly north of Saint Lucia, northwest of Barbados and south of Dominica. At some point prior to Jack Sparrow's teenage adventures, Martinique became one of many colonies governed by France. Jack later had a romantic encounter with Angelica at La Martinique, which he mistook for Saint Dominique, where she tried to kill him.

History

Constance Magliore, while cursed as a cat, attacks Left-Foot Louis.

"We made port in Martinique, and we were unloading the cargo. Precious stuff, those spices."

―Jean Magliore

At some point during the early 18th century, the merchant ship the Seraph made port in Martinique. As the crew was unloading the ship's cargo of silk and spices, the young sailor Jean Magliore accidentally discovered the foreman on the dock was actually the infamous pirate Left-Foot Louis in disguise. Although Louis attempted to silence the boy, Jean's sister Constance, who was magically transformed into a cat by Tia Dalma, leaped into the air and tore her claws clear across Louis' face. Their friend Tumen alarmed the crew of the Seraph, and they all realized Louis' pirates were trying to steal their cargo. A fierce battle ensued, and the pirates were forced to retreat. Before he escaped Martinique, Louis swore revenge against the trio of youngsters who ruined his plan.

When the East India Trading Company merchant ship Wicked Wench, approached the Caribbean on her maiden voyage under the ship's commanding officer, Captain Jack Sparrow, he saw Martinique in the distance through his spyglass.

At an uncertain point in time later, after he became a pirate, Jack Sparrow and his love interest Angelica visited La Martinique, where they were romantically entangled and Jack acquired a trophy lace. During the quest for the Fountain of Youth, their encounter in Martinique was brought up as they engaged in a dance of deception on the deck of Blackbeard's ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, and Jack showed the lace. Angelica looked at the lace and corrected Jack, who mistook their more romantic encounter at La Martinique with a con at Saint Dominique, where each attempted to double-cross the other, and Angelica unsuccessfully having tried to kill Jack there.

Behind the scenes

• Martinique was first mentioned in the 2006 book Jack Sparrow: The Siren Song by Rob Kidd. In 2011, Martinique first appeared in the novel The Price of Freedom by A. C. Crispin, and was first identified as "La Martinique" in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.

Appearances

• Jack Sparrow: The Siren Song (First mentioned)
• The Price of Freedom (First appearance)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Mentioned only) (First identified as La Martinique)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Picture only) (Map only)

​External links

• Martinique on Wikipedia

Notes and references

Locations in Pirates of the Caribbean
Africa Barbary Coast – Calabar – Egypt – Kerma – Slave Coast – Tripoli The Americas Boston – Florida – Louisiana – Mexico – New Orleans – North Carolina Panama – Peru – Savannah – Virginia – Yucatán Peninsula Asia Bombay – China – Hong Kong – India – Nippon – Shanghai – Singapore The Bahamas Andros – Nassau – New Avalon – New Providence The Caribbean Antigua – Black rock island – Cuba – Devil's Triangle – Dominica – Guadeloupe – Hangman's Bay – Hispaniola Ile d'Etable de Porc – Isla De La Avaricia – Isla Cruces – Isla de Muerta – Isla de Pelegostos Martinique – Padres Del Fuego – Port Royal – Poseidon's Tomb Puerto Rico – Saint Martin – San Silvestre –Shipwreck Island – St. Lucia – Tortuga – Unnamed Island Europe Barcelona – Cádiz – France – Gibraltar – Great Britain – Holland London – Marseille – Paris – Portugal – Scotland – Seville – Spain – Other locations Davy Jones' Locker – Farthest Gate – Ice Passage – Isla Sirena
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