This print is located within the texts that narrate the naval battle between Beltrán de Castro and Richard Hawkins, one of the most feared English corsairs, it was a well documented event. This maritime feat appears in several texts by famous writers, as Pedro de Oña recounts it in songs...
Richard Hawkins, one of the most feared corsairs of the English crown, participated among other events in the Caribbean campaign of Francis Drake and was a soldier of the English troops that defeated the Invincible Armada of Felipe II. He sailed from the port of Plymouth in 1592 and took...
The seventeenth century was a turbulent time in which the coasts of Spain were the scene of fighting between Moors and Christians, as well as the American coasts were besieged by pirate ships. The document gives an account of the victory of Octavio de Aragón and his squad in 1616....
This document places us in one of the overseas regions of the Spanish Empire during the seventeenth century and focuses on one of the war episodes where the Spanish face the Dutch. This was printed in Lima by Francisco del Canto in 1619, a few years after the events that...