Spanish capture of Providencia

Spanish and Portuguese capture of Providencia
Part of the Piracy in the Caribbean
View of Providencia Island.
Date 17 May 1641 Location Providencia Island, San Andrés y Providencia (present-day Colombia) Result Spanish & Portuguese victory[1]
Belligerents
Spain	Providence Island colony
Commanders and leaders
Francisco Díaz Pimienta Count of Castel-Melhor João Rodrigues de Vasconcelos e Sousa	Captain Andrew Carter
Strength
1,400 soldiers 600 sailors[2] 10 ships	600 men
Casualties and losses
Minimum	770 prisoners 380 enslaved African & Indigenous 40 guns[3]

The Spanish and Portuguese conquest of Providencia took place on 17 May 1641 and was an amphibious expedition against the Piracy in the Caribbean in order to seize the island from its English settlers' control. The Spanish and Portuguese fleet carrying 2,000 men captured the island and took so much gold and slaves that the value of the plunder was estimated at above half a million ducats.^[4]