With the availability of domestically produced rum, the British changed the daily ration of liquor given to seamen from French brandy to rum. The association of rum with the British Royal Navy began in 1655 when the English fleet captured the island of Jamaica. This half-empty cask, which as of last night was full of rum bound for England, rum entrusted to this vessel to be carried in her hold until we reach our destination, rum intended to be sold to the taverns and cellars of England, to slake English thirsts is gone because several members of this crew that stands before me, this same crew of misbegotten scurvy sea dogs, crept down into the hold and GUZZLED it!" ―Jack Sparrow to the crew of the Fair Wind WHY is the rum gone? I will TELL you why the rum is gone.
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