Jan Janszoon van Hoorn's expedition of 1633

Jan Janszoon van Hoorn's expedition of 1633
Part of Thirty Years' War

The conquest of Campeche and Trujillo in 1633, by Claes Jansz. Visscher, after an original by Jacobus Dasniets.
Date26 April – 11 November 1633 (1633-04-26 – 1633-11-11)1
Location
18°06′07″N 89°41′17″W / 18.102036294803735°N 89.68802328530822°W / 18.102036294803735; -89.68802328530822
Result Dutch victory
Belligerents
Dutch Republic Netherlands Spain Spain
Commanders and leaders
  • Spain Francisco Martínez de la Ribamontán Santander2 / Hond. gov.
  • Spain Fernando Centeno Maldonado / Yuc. gov.
  • Spain Juan de Miranda2 / Hond. gen.
  • Spain Juan de Barros / Camp. alc.
  • Spain Domingo Galván Romero  / Camp. capt.
Units involved
  • 4 ships: Fama, Middelburgh, Gonde-Leeuw, Zutphen
  • 3 yachts: Otter, Brack, Nachtegael
  • 3 sloops: incl. Gijsselingh
  • 2 villas: Trujillo, Campeche
Strength
  • 518 sailors
  • 420 infantry
  • 2,000 civilians3 incl. militia
  • 25 infantrymen
  • 25 cavalrymen
Casualties and losses
  • > 30 deaths
  • vars. wounded
  • vars. ill
  • none detained
  • no vessels seized
  • > 60 deaths
  • vars. wounded
  • none ill
  • 20 detained
  • 27 vessels seized /w cargo
  • 2 towns sacked, 1 burnt
  • 1 A splinter expedition under Cornelis Jol remained active during 18 September 1633 – 6 June 1634 (1633-09-18 – 1634-06-06).
  • 2 Martínez de la Ribamontán Santander suspended from office during first half of 1633, with Miranda acting governor ad interim
  • 3 In Trujillo and S. Pedro (in the city's vicinity) ‍–‍ 200 vecinos, 400 Blacks and mulatos / In Campeche ‍–‍ 350 vecinos, 50 Blacks and mulatos, 1,000 Amerindians

Jan Janszoon van Hoorn's expedition of 1633 was a privateering voyage commissioned by the Dutch West India Company (WIC) against colonial Honduras and Yucatan in New Spain as part of the colonial theatre of the Eighty Years' War. It resulted in various casualties, the sacking of Campeche, and the sacking and burning of Trujillo. Consequently, this villa was left defenceless for the rest of the 1630s.


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