Capture of Portobello (1601)

Capture of Portobello (1601)
Part of the Anglo–Spanish War
(1585-1604)

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
Date17 January 1601
Location
Portobelo, Colón,
Spanish Main
Spanish Empire
(present-day
Republic of Panama)
Result English victory
Belligerents
 Spain England
Commanders and leaders
Gov Pedro Meléndez Sir William Parker
of Plymouth, England
(died 1618)
Strength
100 soldiers
3 ships		 5 ships
200 soldiers & sailors
Casualties and losses
50 casualties
3 ships captured		 Light

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 (died 1618), of Plymouth, assaulted and took the seaport town of Portobelo at Colon on the eastern / northern coast of Panama / Isthmus of Panama in Central America, from the Spanish, captured some looted booty, and then sacked the place, an important site on the Spanish Main in the then world-wide Spanish Empire.

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