The Battle of Cartagena de Indias or the Capture of Cartagena de Indias was a military and naval action fought on 9–11 February 1586, of the recently declared Anglo-Spanish War that resulted in the as
Sir Francis Drake in Cartagena de Indias 1585. From a hand-colored engraving, by Baptista Boazio, 1589
An English officer of Pikemen
Present-day walls of old Cartagena de las Indias
'Drake house' in Cartagena; Drake used this as his headquarters during the brief occupation in 1586
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During the Spanish colonization of the Americas, the Spanish Main comprised the parts of the Spanish Empire that were on the mainland of the Americas and had coastlines on the Caribbean Sea or Gulf of
A Bermuda sloop on the Spanish Main, circa 1807
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