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The fleet returned to Port Royal and and after counting the booty Myngs soon became aware of change in the political situation. Governor Windsor had sailed for England three days earlier having complained of ill health, leaving power in the hands of Jamaica’s newly created local assembly, to which Myngs has been elected during his absence. |
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In 1663 buccaneers from all over the Caribbean joined him for the announced next expedition. Myngs directed the largest buccaneer fleet as yet assembled, 14 ships strong and with 1,400 buccaneers aboard, among them the [[privateer]]s [[Henry Morgan]] and [[Abraham Blauvelt]], where they went on to [[Sack of Campeche (1663)|sack Campeche]] in February. |
In 1663 buccaneers from all over the Caribbean joined him for the announced next expedition. Myngs directed the largest buccaneer fleet as yet assembled, 14 ships strong and with 1,400 buccaneers aboard, among them the [[privateer]]s [[Henry Morgan]] and [[Abraham Blauvelt]], where they went on to [[Sack of Campeche (1663)|sack Campeche]] in February. |
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Latest revision as of 13:05, 8 December 2025
The Raid on Saintago de Cuba took place on the 19th of October 1662 on the island of Cuba, when Commonwealth Navy Captain Christopher Myngs and his force of fourteen vessels, carrying around 1,400 buccaneers assaulted Santiago de Cuba. The town despite its strong defences captured and sacked, resulting in a financial and military success.
England had taken possession of Jamaica in 1657 from Spain. With the threat of a counterattack, Buccaneers were invited, to base themselves at Port Royal, to help defend against Spanish attacks. Christopher Myngs of the Commonwealth Navy became the subcommander of the naval flotilla on the Jamaica Station, in 1658.[1]
Following the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 England and Spain had remained in a state of war in the Caribbean.
The new Governor Thomas Hickman-Windsor gave authorisation to raid the Spanish Main after a trade delegation was rejected.
Myngs disembarked his crew of buccaneers in the night, bound for the city six miles to the west along the San Juan River, and found it weakly defended by only about 200 Spanish militia.
The fleet returned to Port Royal and and after counting the booty Myngs soon became aware of change in the political situation. Governor Windsor had sailed for England three days earlier having complained of ill health, leaving power in the hands of Jamaica’s newly created local assembly, to which Myngs has been elected during his absence.
In 1663 buccaneers from all over the Caribbean joined him for the announced next expedition. Myngs directed the largest buccaneer fleet as yet assembled, 14 ships strong and with 1,400 buccaneers aboard, among them the privateers Henry Morgan and Abraham Blauvelt, where they went on to sack Campeche in February.
