What the records say
- When
- 23 Jan 1635
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 20.00° N, 72.71° W
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Capture of Tortuga.
Summary
1635 Capture of Tortuga: The Spanish Navy captures the Caribbean island of Tortuga off of the coast of Haiti after a three-day battle against the English and French Navy.
Capture of Tortuga
1635 Spanish military campaign
The capture of Tortuga was a successful Spanish military expedition against English, French and buccaneer settlers in Tortuga, an island off northern Hispaniola in what is now Haiti, in January 1635, during the colonial theatre of the Thirty Years' War.
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