The Battle of San Fernando de Omoa was a short siege and battle between British and Spanish forces fought not long after Spain entered the American Revolutionary War on the American side. On the 16 Oc
Exterior view of the fort at San Fernando de Omoa. Photo taken in 2006
18th century print depicting a British sailor offering a sword to an unarmed Spaniard
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Omoa is a town and municipality with a population of 10,550 in the Department of Cortés in Honduras. Omoa is located on a small bay of the same name 18 km west of Puerto Cortés on the Caribbean Sea co
Battle of San Fernando de Omoa
…present-day Belize City). Then, anticipating a British attack against the nearby port of Santo Tomás de Castilla, Gálvez withdrew the garrison there to Omoa. The Spanish had started building San Fernando de Omoa, principally with African slave labour, in the 1740s during the War of Jenkins' Ear. It became…
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British invasion of Omoa in 1779.
Omoa church in 1859.
Tourism is the main economy of Omoa