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An illustration of Henry Morgan's attack on the Castillo de San Jerónimo, Porto Bello in 1669. Portobelo was founded in 1597 by Spanish explorer Francisco Velarde y Mercado [2] and quickly replaced Nombre de Dios as a Caribbean port for Peruvian silver.
Porto Bello was a 2-story brick farmhouse owned by Lord Dunmore from 1773 to the late 1770s. It is located in central York County on a wooded hill north of Queen's Creek.. In a 1782 map, the building is shown to have five buildings, consisting of a residence, a kitchen, and three other much smaller outbuildings; however, it was written to have up to ten outbuildings while under the ownership ...
A map of Porto Bello from 1700 showing the location of the three castles as well as the town. On 10 July Morgan weighed anchor with his nine vessels and 470 men at Naos, a village twelve miles from Porto Bello in the Bay of Bocas del Torro. From there he sailed along the coast to the port of El Puerto del Ponton, four miles from Porto Bello and ...
Porto Bello (Caribbean), a fictional British colony in the Long John Silver film and The Adventures of Long John Silver TV series; Portobello, a 2008 novel by Ruth Rendell; Portobello Books A publishing house founded in 2005 by Sigrid Rausing, a Granta Books imprint after Rausing's 2006 purchase of Granta
In January 1680 during the second sacking of Porto Bello (the first having been done by the British pirate Henry Morgan in 1671), a party led by the English buccaneer and privateer Bartholomew Sharp captured the town of Porto Bello within that harbour, which he held and plundered for two days, the population having taken refuge in the fortress ...
The Portobelo and San Lorenzo fortifications are situated approximately 80 kilometres (50 mi) from each other on Panama's Atlantic coast. Portobelo's military structures provided a security cover on the Caribbean part of the Panama harbour whereas the fortifications at San Lorenzo protected the Chagres River at its mouth. [2]
Porto Bello is a historic home located at Drayden, St. Mary's County, Maryland.It is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story gambrel-roofed Flemish bond brick house built after 1742. It is located on a portion of the first grant of land recorded in the province of Maryland: West St. Mary's Manor, one of the nine original Maryland Manors.
Map of Drake's Great Expedition in 1585 by Giovanni Battista Boazio. War broke out between England and Spain in 1585, after the signing of the Treaty of Nonsuch. Queen Elizabeth I, through her principal secretary Francis Walsingham, ordered Sir Francis Drake to lead an expedition to attack the Spanish colonies in a kind of pre-emptive strike.