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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 (Caribbean), a fictional British colony in the Long John Silver film and The Adventures of Long John Silver TV series Portobello (novel) , 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
The Battle of Porto Bello, or the Battle of Portobello, was a 1739 battle between a British naval force aiming to capture the settlement of Portobelo in Panama, and its Spanish defenders. It took place during the War of the Austrian Succession, in the early stages of the war sometimes known as the War of Jenkins' Ear. It resulted in a popularly ...
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]
Henry Morgan's raid on Porto Bello was a military event which took place in the latter half of the Anglo-Spanish war beginning on 10 July 1668. Notable Welsh Buccaneer Henry Morgan led a largely English Privateer force against the heavily fortified town of Porto Bello (now Portobelo in modern Panama ).
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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 (died 1618), 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 ...
The Battle of Porto Bello may refer to: Capture of Porto Bello (1601), was an engagement of the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) Henry Morgan's raid on Porto Bello (1668), by Welsh privateer Henry Morgan; Assault on Porto Bello (1680), by buccaneer John Coxon; Attack on Porto Bello (1702), was an engagement of the War of the Spanish Succession