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MONTAUBAND (mon-to-bong), buccaneer, born about 1650; died in Bordeaux in 1700. The place of his birth is unknown. He appeared as a pirate in the West Indies about 1675, and for twenty years was the terror of the Spaniards in Africa and America. He established his headquarters in the island of Tortuga, which at that time was the rendezvous of all the buccaneers. Montauband frequently ravaged the coasts of New Spain, Carthagena, Florida, and North America. as far as Newfoundland. In 1694 he escorted to France a great number of prizes that he had taken in the West Indies, but the excesses that were committed by his crew at Bordeaux forced him to abandon that port in January, 1695, and he cruised for some time on the coast of Guinea, capturing many ships from the Dutch and English. After nearly losing his life by the explosion of a powder-magazine he returned to Tortuga, but resolved to abandon his mode of life, and returned to Bordeaux, where he died. He wrote " Relation du voyage du sieur de Montanband, capitaine de flibustiers sur les cStes de l'Amerique dn Sud et de Guinee dans les annees de 1694 et 1695," which is printed in the collection of Las Casas (Amsterdam, 1698). This is considered unauthentic by some authorities.
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