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
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, of Plymouth,
Present-day ruins of 16th and 17 centuries Santiago de la Gloria fort at seaport town of Portobelo, Colon, Isthmus of Panama on the Spanish Main of the then world-wide Spanish Empire