Few filibuster leaders could boast such a long and eventful career as John Coxon, but he has been underestimated by historians, being overshadowed by his more illustrious contemporaries - Henry Morgan, Bartholomew Sharp, Jean de Grammont, Nicholas van Hoorn and Laurent de Graff .Although Coxon did not capture such a grandiose booty as Morgan in Panama or van Hoorn, Grammont and de Graff in Veracruz, for almost thirty years he plied the waters of the West Indies with impunity, sometimes in the guise of a corsair, sometimes as an outright pirate, combining the traits classic 17th century adventurer. Among his most famous adventures, it is worth noting his participation in the attacks of the Marquis de Maintenon on the city of Maracaibo and the island of Margarita in Venezuela, a raid together with captains Lagarde and Sharpe on the port of Santa Marta in Colombia, the robbery of the city of Portobelo in Panama and a campaign in alliance with the Kuna Indians across the Darien Isthmus to the shores of the Pacific Ocean. In our time, the name of this “knight of the boarding ax” is borne by the city of Coxen Hole, the administrative center of the island of Roatan and the department of Islas de la Bahia in Honduras. According to legend, it was there, on Roatan, that the old filibuster ended his life.