Dutch privateering voyage against Mexico
Jan Janszoon van Hoorn's expedition of 1633 Part of Thirty Years' War The conquest of Campeche and Trujillo in 1633 , by Claes Jansz. Visscher , after an original by Jacobus Dasniets.Belligerents
Netherlands
Spain Commanders and leaders
Francisco Martínez de la Ribamontán Santander2 / Hond. gov. Fernando Centeno Maldonado / Yuc. gov. Juan de Miranda2 / Hond. gen. Juan de Barros / Camp. alc. Domingo Galván Romero † / Camp. capt. Units involved
4 ships: Fama , Middelburgh , Gonde-Leeuw , Zutphen 3 yachts: Otter , Brack , Nachtegael 3 sloops: incl. Gijsselingh
2 villas : Trujillo, Campeachy Strength
2,000 civilians3 incl. militia 25 infantrymen 25 cavalrymen Casualties and losses
> 30 deaths vars. wounded vars. ill none detained no vessels seized
> 60 deaths vars. wounded none ill 20 detained 27 vessels seized /w cargo 2 towns sacked, 1 burnt
1 A splinter expedition under Cornelis Jol remained active during 18 September 1633 – 6 June 1634 (1633-09-18 – 1634-06-06 ) .2 Martínez de la Ribamontán Santander suspended from office during first half of 1633, with Miranda acting governor ad interim 3 In Trujillo and S. Pedro (in the city's vicinity) – 200 vecinos , 400 Blacks and mulatos / In Campeachy – 350 vecinos , 50 Blacks and mulatos , 1,000 Amerindians
Jan Janszoon van Hoorn's expedition of 1633 was a privateering voyage commissioned by the Dutch West India Company (WIC) against colonial Honduras and Yucatan in New Spain as part of the colonial theatre of the Eighty Years' War . It resulted in various casualties, the sacking of Campeachy , and the sacking and burning of Trujillo . Consequently, this villa was left defenceless for the rest of the 1630s.