Flamboyant Captain Alberto Dicer was a garlic picker in Madrid, a girl's playmate in a garden, a thief of a silver spoon, a soldier of Spain, a cook on a galleon, a pirate aboard El Dreadful, and a prisoner at St. Augustine, Florida during the reign of King Phillip II of Spain. Alberto learns how to fire a cannon, cook Spanish rice, duel, sail, and plunder galleons of the King's Treasure Fleet.