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Hispanic American Historical Review (1934) 14 (1): 93–95.
Published: 01 February 1934
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1943) 23 (2): 258–282.
Published: 01 May 1943
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (4): 707–709.
Published: 01 November 2018
... contribution. Finally, Castillero Calvo recounts the little-known Panamanian rebuff of Vice Admiral Edward Vernon and his large seaborne force in 1742, three years after he had successfully invaded and sacked Portobelo. This time the defenders were ready. Panamanians rallied in impressive numbers to defend...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (3): 399–429.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Alejandro García-Montón Abstract This article analyzes the rise of Portobelo as the most important center of the Spanish American slave trade from the 1660s to the 1730s. Portobelo's emergence was one of the most striking results of the structural transformation that the slave trade to Spanish...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (4): 691–713.
Published: 01 November 1989
...., Dec., 1978), 115-132. 90 Ángel Rubio y Muñoz Bocanegra, Portobelo ilustre, boceto de sinfonía histórica (Panama City, 1954); Manuel María Alba C., Portobelo relicario de piedra (Panama City, 1971). Both of these studies are highly inaccurate, as is Ricardo Jaén, Jr., “Portobelo,” Revista...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1962) 42 (4): 477–501.
Published: 01 November 1962
... the strength to assault so large a place with any hope of success. In February and March he reconnoitered the mainland coast from Santa Marta to Portobelo, and in passing Cartagena gave the town and its forts a rather harmless bombardment. 47 He would have liked to tempt Blas de Lezo out for a sea battle...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (4): 711–712.
Published: 01 November 1987
... strategists as one of the weakest links in a vulnerable empire—strong fortifications were erected in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries at both Portobelo and the mouth of the Chagres River, the water link from the Caribbean to Panama City. Before the present book, however, no major study on Portobelo...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1998) 78 (2): 335–336.
Published: 01 May 1998
... University Press 1998 This ambitious volume reconstructs the character of urban life in colonial Panama through its built environment. Castillero Calvo focuses principally on Panama City and Portobelo and primarily on the shape and quality of the housing. Castillero is not an architect, and despite his...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (4): 706–707.
Published: 01 November 2008
... days of the Portobelo fair), the captain-general was warned that a superior force of British warships had been sighted and appeared to be awaiting to intercept any fleet that might depart Portobelo destined for Cartagena. Medina went on to say that he continued to object to the captain-general’s...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (1): 134–138.
Published: 01 February 2006
.... As the sixteenth century advanced and an expanding flow of Peruvian silver passed along the isthmian treasure route on its way to Europe, local dealers executed some 10 percent of the business at the Portobelo fairs themselves. Further, Castillero documents a heretofore unknown trade with the Orient...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (2): 299–331.
Published: 01 May 2011
.... The trade fairs in Jalapa (halfway between Veracruz and Mexico City) and Portobelo (in the Isthmus of Panama, the first stop on the long route to Peru) had been dismal failures, and it was the merchants of Cádiz, the gaditanos , who had sustained the greatest losses. 7 Foreign contraband had had...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (4): 579–612.
Published: 01 November 2017
... and other officials corresponding with the Spanish crown in the same year about the English attacks on Nombre de Dios and Portobelo described Gómez interchangeably as “morena” and “negra.” 109 Such officials did not betray any sense of disbelief that a black woman owned vast sums of property and sought...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (3): 473–488.
Published: 01 August 1969
... prize money. He had had long experience in West Indian waters, having participated in the destruction of Portobelo and Chagres, served in the attack on Cartagena, and commanded the unsuccessful expedition of 1743 against the Caracas coast. No sooner had he arrived in Jamaica than he planned to attack...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1998) 78 (3): 492–493.
Published: 01 August 1998
... Ulloa (1749) is quoted describing the ports of Cartagena and Portobelo. The lengthiest extract is from the memoirs of the French corsair Duguay-Trouin, published in 1740, and deals with his expedition against Rio de Janeiro (1710-12). Other extracts describe Buenos Aires in 1771; Brazilian sugar...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (2): 318–319.
Published: 01 May 1997
... in Portobelo wasn’t right, he did not hesitate to send to Spain for better bargains. And he ran unregistered silver past authorities as a regular practice. Súarez’ careful research at this notarial level makes it possible to begin to see “fraud” in historical perspective, although a fuller picture waits...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (2): 233–256.
Published: 01 May 2020
... for Portobelo, where the silver from Peru was loaded onto galleons for the transatlantic voyage. Freebooters had been drawn to this rich target since their earliest forays into the Caribbean, but the Spanish defenses of the harbor's entrance, with two forts on either side, appeared too strong to overcome...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (4): 701–702.
Published: 01 November 1993
... of departure, Portobelo, was under siege by the British. The overland trip from Yaguache, near Guayaquil, to Caracas, involved swamps; steep and often perilous inclines; rivers and streams to ford or, in a few cases, to cross by means of hanging bridges, described in some detail. Not least important...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (1): 85–108.
Published: 01 February 1990
... on this perception. In their regionalistic way, they sought to return to the golden age of the Portobelo fairs, and, to the extent that they viewed the policies pursued by New Granada as contrary to their goals, they sought local autonomy in the guise of federalism if not outright separation. 31 The election...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (1): 137–139.
Published: 01 February 2018
... to Spanish America. The British also were granted permission to send one ship of 500 tons loaded with goods to the Portobelo fair each year and to place a small number of British subjects in several other Spanish American ports with rights to limited trade. Not surprisingly, these resident factors developed...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (4): 715–716.
Published: 01 November 2018
...” (circa 1580 to 1720) gave rise to medical empiricism not just in Gideon Harvey's and Thomas Sydenham's London, Marcello Malpighi's and Giovanni Alfonso Borelli's Pisa, Nicolas Malebranche's Paris, or René Descartes's Amsterdam but in places like Cartagena de Indias, Havana, Portobelo, and Caracas...
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