Sack of Campeche (1663)

Detail of a 17th-century map showing Campeche and its fortifications.

The Sack of Campeche, known to later Spanish historians as Mansfield's Assault, was a 1663 raid by buccaneers led by Christopher Myngs and Edward Mansvelt which became a model for later coastal raids of the buccaneering era.


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