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Battle of Puerto Caballos (1603)
The Battle of Puerto Caballos was a military event during the Anglo–Spanish War to capture the Spanish town and port of Puerto Caballos (present day Puerto Cortés) on 17 February 1603 by an English fleet under Christopher Newport and Michael Geare along with the help of French pirates. The English were able to achieve victory after a bitter fight. Two Spanish galleons were captured, one of which was subsequently burned. The Anglo-French consortium occupied the area and after two weeks withdrew with captured booty.〔
==Background==
With the Anglo-Spanish war still raging, English privateers were harassing Spanish shipping. These were mainly London merchants who, in a grinding war of attrition, were still able to roam the coast of the Spanish New World. In charge of one of these expeditions was veteran Christopher Newport who had been in the Caribbean since 1602 and had continually returned. He had lost his arm during a successful expedition in 1590 but this did not still stop him from fighting.〔Williams pg 180–181〕
In November 1602, at the smuggling outpost of Tortuga at northern Hispaniola, Newport had teamed up with Captain Michael Geare (another veteran of raiding the Spanish Main) who himself had teamed up with three French slavers to attack a pair of Spanish galleons expected soon at Puerto Caballos (modern-day Puerto Cortés, Honduras).〔 The 300- to 350-ton English vessels – ''Archangel'' of Geare, Newport's ''Neptune'', and Anthony Hippons in Paul Bayning's ship ''Phoenix''—were joined by Spanish prizes to increase their fleet's size to eight.〔
Newport had successfully raided Puerto Caballos before in May 1592, where he captured a 200 ton merchantmen. He knew the area well but the fleet needed supplies badly so they headed first for Jamaica. On 24 January 1603, while heading for Puerto Caballos, the Anglo-French flotilla raided Jamaica. The Spanish repelled the attack. Newport and his associates withdrew with minor losses.〔
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