The fort and buildings constructed by the militaries over the years were kept and maintained as the pirate population settled and flourished.
The pirates took control of the island and continued to use it as a base of operations and it soon became their home. Numerous French officers were killed, including the Governor whose body was hanged before a crowd of angry pirates, while others fled for their lives.
In 1680 an Acts of Parliament forbade sailing under foreign flags and this is what caused pirates to rebel against the government in a violent riot. A Governor of Tortuga was appoint, a Frenchman, and it was then that England's control over the island ended and it was strictly under French law. But by 1654 the Spaniards had enough with the cut-throats and they captured the island once again though it was taken back by the English and French once more and slowly the buccaneers began to repopulate the island. The French and English allowed the island to be used as a base of operations for buccaneers in the mid 17th century and even imported over 1500 prostitutes to keep the scallywags happy. Like all other islands of the time, it held a harbor with a small town, plantations, and soon a fort. All countries continued to build and add on to the small island in an attempt to colonize the land. Tortuga was originally settled by Spanish colonists, Christopher Columbus named the island in 1492, though the 17th century it frequently changed hands between the Spanish and the French and English.
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