[The Battle of Santo Domingo was fought on 1 January 1586 after which the English soldiers occupied and ransacked the city, departing on 1 February. Francis Drake’s capture of Santo Domingo, on the Spanish island of Hispaniola, was part of the Anglo-Spanish War]

[Letter from] Nicholas Clevar to Nicholas Turner, merchant. The captain of a ship of Newhaven come from Sir Fras. Drake, says Drake has taken San Domingo, and that he left there on 22nd January with all the riches of the island, having also taken five great galleons […] The Lord Admiral has a letter directed to Roger How, "delivering the manner of the taking of San Domingo." That Sir Francis played with the Spaniards three days, making many false alarms as though he would have landed, and so wearied and tired them, then very secretly landed 800 men in most warlike order a league or two off, and in the meantime his ships "gave a whole charge," whereupon the enemy issued out of the town to defend the landing, when the 800 men cutting between the enemy and the town upon their backs, and striking up their drums and displaying ensigns, so amazed them that they were scattered, killed, and spoiled very near 10,000.