1658 June 25/27th. Jamaica.

• 1658 – Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War.
• 1658 Battle of Rio Nuevo: June 25–27th. Anglo-Spanish War: A Spanish invasion force fails to recapture Jamaica from the English.The battle of Rio Nuevo occurred over two days on the island of Jamaica between Spanish forces under Don Cristóbal Arnaldo Isasi and English forces under governor Edward D'Oyley.In the battle the invading Spanish were routed. It is the largest battle to be fought on Jamaica.
  Background: In 1655, an English force led by Admiral Sir William Penn,and General Robert Venables seized the island, and successfully held it against Spanish attempts to retake it over the next few years the battle of Rio Nuevo was one of these attempts, the other being Ocho Rios the year before.The Spanish were hoping to take back the island for the Spanish crown. The former Spanish governor of Jamaica, Don Cristóbal Arnaldo Isasi, attempted to recapture the island with forces from Cuba in the summer of 1657, but the attack was repulsed by acting governor Colonel Edward Doyley.
  Invasion: May 20th. Don Cristóbal Arnaldo Isasi attempted this time with more men recruited from New Spain. The Tercios Mexicano(Mexican Regiment) and with him had four troop transports and a number of armed
   ships. In total the invasion force consisted of thirty one captains, thirty one ensigns,twenty eight sergeants and 468 soldiers.Two days whilst at anchor near the mouth of Rio Nuevo a trio of English coast guard vessels chances upon the Spanish but are chased away by gunfire.The English scouts however report back to Colonel Edward D'Oyley who musters all available militia and soldiers that are fit to fight who are all assembled within a month. Mean-time the Spanish having fortified the area are joined by around fifty tattered Spanish guerrillas.
  

  1658 June 25th. Battle: D'Oyley musters a total of 700 soldiers and militia and a total of ten ships with which to trans- port them. While they disembark near Rio Nuevo the Spanish transports are swiftly captured which as result sealing off any major escape for the invaders. The Spanish seeing this, attempt to make a stand and repel the English behind their newly fortified redoubt. The English attack and soon their firepower begins to have a telling effect.The Spanish are pulverized by canon and firelocks in a pitched battle lasting two days.Suffering nearly two thirds casualties, the Spanish attempt to break out however most of these are to be killed or captured. What's left of the invasion force flee into the hills and jungle.They had lost over 300 casualties of which mostly are killed, the English had captured 150 prisoners, eleven flags, six guns and most their arms and ammunition. English losses around sixty. Most of the wounded on both sides however did not survive the tropical diseases. Aftermath: The victorious English conveyed the Spanish artillery back to 'the Point' and Fort Cromwell installing it into their defences. Don Cristóbal Arnaldo Isassi tried to keep the struggle up until he was finally defeated in
  1660, finally having to escape Tower Isle and flee to Cuba by canoe with his remaining supporters. The battle of Rio Nuevo was the last time the Spanish attempted to recapture Jamaica.The island would eventually be ceded to England by Spain in full in 1670 at the Treaty of Madrid.