Excerpt from The Attacks Upon the Spanish Main by Admiral Vernon On the fifth of November. This squadron set sail. The Sheerness be ing sent as a scout in the direction of Cartagena. While the rest headed for Porto Bello, off which port they lay to on the twentieth of that month. On the twenty-first, he attacked the Iron Fort. So called, at the harbor's entrance, with his full strength at close range, and with such vigor that, after a short but spirited resistance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.