What the records say
- When
- 17 Jan 1601
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 9.55° N, 79.66° W
- Description
- 1601 battle
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Capture of Portobello (1601)
Military event
The Capture of Portobello was a military event during the long ongoing Anglo–Spanish War of 1585-1604, in which an English naval expedition under the command of privateer William Parker, of Plymouth, assaulted and took the seaport town of Portobelo at Colon on the eastern / northern coast of Panama / Isthmus of Panama in Central America, from the Spanish, captured some looted booty, and then sacked the place, an impo…
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