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    The Blockade of Porto Bello was a failed British naval action against the Spanish port of Porto Bello in present-day Panama between 1726 and 1727 as part...
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  • Francis Hosier (category British military personnel of the Nine Years' War)
    failure of the Blockade of Porto Bello, for which poor Government orders were largely responsible, during which he died of disease alongside thousands of his...
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    Anglo-Spanish War (1727–1729) (category Military history of Gibraltar)
    Blockade of Porto Bello. It eventually ended with a return to the previous status quo ante bellum following the Treaty of Seville. During the War of the...
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  • Porto Bello, Panama)
    Portobelo (Modern Spanish: "Puerto Bello" ("beautiful port"), historically in Portuguese: Porto Belo) is a historic port and corregimiento in Portobelo...
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    Ranger's House (category Royal residences in the Royal Borough of Greenwich)
    the house until dying of yellow fever at sea in 1727, during the disastrous Blockade of Porto Bello off Panama. In 1748 the lease of the house was inherited...
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    Isla Grande (category Corregimientos of Colón Province)
    3,000 of his sailors died of tropical disease whilst anchored with his fleet of 20 ships during the disastrous Blockade of Porto Bello. List of lighthouses...
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  • Philip Vanbrugh (category British military personnel of the War of the Quadruple Alliance)
    Philip VanBrugh took command of HMS Breda, Vice-Admiral Francis Hosier's flagship at the disastrous Blockade of Porto Bello between 1726 and 1727. After...
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    Bastimentos, Portobelo (category Caribbean islands of Panama)
    three thousand of his sailors died of tropical disease whilst anchored with his fleet of 20 ships during the disastrous Blockade of Porto Bello. Due to the...
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    Edward Vernon (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Ipswich)
    vengeance for Admiral Hosier's disastrous blockade of Porto Bello during 1726–1728, where with a greater force of 20 ships, and Portobelo inadequately defended...
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  • Edward St. Lo (category British military personnel of the Anglo-Spanish War (1727–1729))
    the death of Admiral Francis Hosier from tropical diseases, in charge of a small squadron which was undertaking a Blockade of Porto Bello during the...
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  • History of Spain–United Kingdom relations)
    (1727–1729), the Royal Navy launched unsuccessful operations against Blockade of Porto Bello. Spain in turn attempted to retake Gibraltar hoping that the Holy...
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    HMS Berwick (1723) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
    of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Richard Stacey at Deptford Dockyard and launched on 23 July 1723. She was part of the Blockade of Porto Bello...
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  • Battle of Pequawket 9 May - Death of Chief Paugus Blockade of Porto Bello - Spanish evade British blockade Thirteenth siege of Gibraltar 11 February-12 June...
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    Jamaica Station (Royal Navy) (category Commands of the Royal Navy)
    three successive commanders of the station lost their lives to tropical diseases while undertaking a Blockade of Porto Bello during the Anglo-Spanish War...
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  • list of wars and armed conflicts fought by the Kingdom of Spain, its predecessor states or in Spanish territory. Military history of Spain List of Spanish...
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  • (1585–1604) Blockade of Porto Bello – 1726 – 1728 – Anglo-Spanish War (1727–1729) Battle of Porto Bello (1739) – 1739 – War of Jenkins' Ear (War of the Austrian...
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