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People: Jehoash of Israel
Location: Bruges > Brugge West-Vlaanderen Belgium

Myngs’s atrocities lead to an outrage and …

Years: 1663 - 1663
April

Myngs’s atrocities lead to an outrage and Charles II of England is forced to forbid further attacks in April, a policy to be carried out by Jamaica’s new acting governor, Thomas Lynch.

Nevertheless, a pattern has been set and large buccaneer attacks on Spanish settlements, secretly condoned by the English authorities, will continue till the end of the century, gradually laying waste to the entire region.