What the records say
- When
- 9 Feb 1654
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 20.01° N, 72.71° W
- Description
- 1654 battle
Capture of Fort Rocher
1654 siege of the French-held island of Tortuga by the Spanish
The Capture of Fort Rocher took place on 9 February 1654, during the Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659). Equipped with one siege battery, a Spanish expedition of 700 troops attacked the buccaneer stronghold of Tortuga, capturing the Fort de Rocher and 500 prisoners including 330 buccaneers and goods valued at approximately 160,000 pieces-of-eight.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Spanish troops led by Don Gabriel de Rojas y Figueroa succeed in the capture of Fort Rocher, a pirate-controlled base on the Caribbean island of Tortuga”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page