Battle of Santo Domingo (1586)

Battle of Santo Domingo (1586)
	Part of the Anglo–Spanish War
	; Sir Francis Drake in Santo Domingo 1585, hand-colored engraving, by Baptista Boazio, 1589
Date	1 January 1586
Location	Santo Domingo, Hispaniola; (Present day Dominican Republic)18°28′24″N 69°52′54″W
Result	English victory
Belligerents
Spain	England
Commanders and leaders
Cristóbal de Ovalle	Francis Drake; Christopher Carleill
Strength
1,400 soldiers and militia; 100 cavalry; 30 diverse warships, 1 galley	23 ships; 2,300 soldiers & sailors
Casualties and losses
200 killed, wounded or captured,; 1 galley sunk,; 20 ships burned,; 3 ships captured	20 casualties; 3 ships scuttled

The Battle of Santo Domingo (1586) or the Capture of Santo Domingo was a military and naval action fought on 1 January 1586, of the recently declared Anglo-Spanish War that resulted in the assault and capture by English soldiers and sailors of the Spanish city of Santo Domingo governed by Cristóbal de Ovalle on the Spanish island of Hispaniola. The English were led by Francis Drake and was part of his Great Expedition to raid the Spanish New World in a kind of preemptive strike.^: BC The English soldiers then occupied the city for over a month and captured much booty along with a 25,000 ducat ransom before departing on 1 February.

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