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Santísima Trinidad was a 400-ton galleon commanded by Captain Francisco de Peralta, which escaped with the Panama treasure when Sir Henry Morgan attacked Panama City in January 1671. It was captured by English pirates in April 1680, renamed Trinity and used as their flagship. [1] It was constructed at the Real Arsenal in Havana. [2]
Henry Morgan's Panama expedition, also known as The Sack of Panama was a military expedition in which English privateers and French pirates commanded by Buccaneer Henry Morgan launched an attack with an army of 1,400 men with the purpose of capturing the rich Spanish city of Panama off the Pacific coast between 16 December 1670 and 5 March 1671 during the later stage of the Anglo-Spanish War.
Another elite burial was uncovered at the park in 2011, according to the tourism website Visit Panama. The elite figure, identified as a chieftain, was buried with gold artifacts and 25 other people.
Fort Amador (Spanish: Fuerte Amador) and Fort Grant were former United States Army bases built to protect the Pacific (southern) end of the Panama Canal at Panama Bay. Amador was the primary on-land site, lying below the Bridge of the Americas. Grant consisted of a series of islands lying just offshore, some connected to Amador via a causeway.
A strip center in the heart of Treasure Island sold for $5.85 million, according to commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap. A company tied to a South Florida-based investor Shlomo Melloul ...
Originally a major port of call for the Spanish treasure fleet, [2] Nombre de Dios was the most significant port for shipping in the Americas between 1540 and 1580. After the opening of Potosí in 1546, silver was shipped north to Panama City and carried by mule train across the isthmus to Nombre de Dios for shipment to Havana and Spain. [3]