Spanish treasure fleet
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The Spanish treasure fleet, or West Indies Fleet, was a convoy system of sea routes organized by the Spanish Empire from 1566 to 1790, which linked Spain with its territories in the Americas across th
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, admiral and designer of the treasure fleet system
The Spaniard Amaro Pargo, a corsair and merchant, participated in the West Indies Fleet.
A silver 8-reales (peso) coin minted in México (1621–65).
A shipyard on the river Guadalquivir in 16th century Seville, by Alonso Sánchez Coello
The Battle in the Bay of Matanzas was a naval battle in Cuba during the Eighty Years' War in which a Dutch squadron was able to defeat and capture a Spanish treasure fleet.
Spanish treasure fleet
…centuries of operation; more flota galleons were lost to hurricanes. Only the Dutch WIC admiral Piet Hein managed to capture an entire fleet, in the Battle in the Bay of Matanzas in 1628, after which its cargo was taken to the Dutch Republic. The English admiral Robert Blake twice attacked the fleet, in the Battle of Cádiz in…
Piet Hein capturing the Spanish silver fleet during the battle. The Story of New Netherland (1909).