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Battle of San Juan (1595)
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Queen Elizabeth I of England sent Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Hawkins on an expedition against the Spanish stronghold of Puerto Rico and Panama, in an attempt to strike a blow against the source of Spain's gold and silver. They set sail from Plymouth on 28 August 1595, with a fleet of 27 ships and 2,500 men. Previous to that, the Spanish West Indian Fleet under the command of General Sancho Pardo Osorio had sailed from Havana on 10 March with 2,000,000 pesos in gold and silver, bound for Spain. Damage from a storm in the Bermuda Channel five days later necessitated a trip to Puerto Rico for repairs, which was reached on 9 April. The treasure cargo was placed in La Fortaleza for safekeeping while repairs were undertaken. Admiral Pedro Tello de Guzmán, commanding five frigates, was sent to retrieve the treasure. Along the way to Puerto Rico, Tello captured one of Drake's ships, the Francis, near Guadeloupe, upon which he learned of Drake's mission, and hastened to Puerto Rico ahead of Drake.BOOK, The Forts of Old San Juan, 2018, Division of Publications, National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Washington, D.C., 9780912627625, 31â34, BOOK, Maynarde, Thomas, Cooley, W.A., Sir Francis Drake, His Voyage, 1595, including An Account Of What Took Place At San Juan De Puerto Rico, In The Indies, With The English Fleet Under The Command OF Francis Drake and John Hawkins, On The 23rd November 1595, 2016, Routledge, New York, 9781409412700, 4-5,9-11,46-63, The Hayluyt Society,weblink 8 March 2019, TM, BOOK, Van Middeldyk, R.A., Brumbaugh, Martin, The History of Puerto Rico: From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation, 1903, D. Appleton and Company, 114-119,weblink 6 March 2019,Battle
General Sancho took command of the shore defences, Admiral Gonzalo Mendez de Cauzo commanded the forts, while Tello defended the harbour with his frigates. The Spanish decided to sink two vessels at the harbour entrance, with Tello's frigates just behind, to prevent the English from entering the harbour. The Spanish defence consisted of 1500 men, 800 of whom manned the 5 frigates, with 70 land-based cannon in addition to those on the frigates. Hawkins had died on 12 November from a fever, while Drake arrived offshore Puerto Rico on 22 November, anchoring off the Boquerón Inlet. The Spanish artillery and scored hits upon Drake's ship, Defiance, killing Sir Nicholas Clifford and Browne. Drake moved his fleet to the vicinity of Isla de Cabras on 23 November.According to a Spanish account,On 25 Nov., Drake's fleet gave up the fight and departed.Aftermath
{{further|Drake's Assault on Panama}}The Spanish treasure fleet finally left Puerto Rico on 20 Dec. 1595, bound for Spain.This defeat ended English hopes of establishing a presence in the Caribbean Sea. After an attempt to cross the Isthmus of Panama in January 1596 also ended in defeat, Drake succumbed to dysentery and on 28 January he would die.WEB, Sir Francis Drake,weblink 28 July 2017, thepirateking.com,Popular culture
The battle is mentioned in Lope de Vega's poem La Dragontea.Dislates y Disparates sobre el Relámpago del Catatumbo: La expedición de Drake, de 1595 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161103234021weblink |date=3 November 2016 }}, Ãngel Vicente Muñoz GarcÃa, Centro de Modelado CientÃfico, Maracaibo, agosto 2016.JOURNAL, Lope de Vega's La Dragontea: Historical and Literary Sources, A. K., Jameson, 1938, Hispanic Review, 6, 2, 104â119, 10.2307/469720, 469720,References
{{reflist}}Additional Reading
- BOOK, Konstam, Angus, Angus Konstam, Piracy: the complete history, 2008, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, UK, 978-1-84603-240-0,
- BOOK, Van Middeldyk, R. A., The History of Puerto Rico, 2008, Echo Library, Teddington, UK, 978-1-4068-7497-6,
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