Regional1585 – 1586 · 1 year

Drake's Great Expedition (1585–1586)

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Colombia · United States · Dominican Republic

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Drake's raid on the Spanish Caribbean, sacking Santo Domingo and Cartagena and burning St Augustine.

Belligerents2

England
Spain

ON THE MAPKingdom of EnglandSpanish Empire (Americas)

Conflict graph

PART OFAnglo-Spanish War (1585-1604)

SUB-CONFLICTS · 3

Battle of Cartagena, Colombia1586
Battle of St Augustine1586
Battle of Santo Domingo1586

Sources

Derived from HCED child battles; see Wikipedia
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Drake's Great Expedition (1585–1586) (1585 – 1586). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/drakes-great-expedition · Sources & methodology