A single cannon shot collapsed a newly built stone church in Cartagena.

Evidence

The Church which was newlie builded of very faire stone work which by vs was much ruined againe, by a chance in shooting a peece of ordinance at the discharging of the watch, the bullet wherof being a great Culuerin, or rather a Demicannon, happening to take the toppe of a maine pillar, made one part after another to fall downe. — Mary Frear Keeler, Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage,…, 2991

Categorization

• SEED: A vivid anecdote showing how the English deliberately wrecked city architecture, useful for writing about the scale of destruction Drake’s raid inflicted on Cartagena.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Mary Frear Keeler, Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage,…, 2991