The Spanish castle at Saint Domingo commanded the harbour with fifty cannon.

Evidence

The castle wherein they had planted some 50. peeces of ordinance which commanded all the harbour, as well to seawarde as also to the inward part thereof, being walled about with free stone, and was kept by the Spaniards after the towne was lost the space of twelue howers, vntill they saw vs readie to enter it by force and they fled ouer the riuer by litle boates. — Mary Frear Keeler, Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage,…, 2967

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Mary Frear Keeler, Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage,…, 2967
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