After taking Roatan from the British in March 1781, General Matias de Galvez, commander of all Spanish forces in Central America, turned his attention to the last English outpost in Honduras.
The inhabitants of Roatan and the other Bay Islands were much relieved in 1683, when notorious Dutch pirate, Nicholas Van Hoorn, attacked Trujillo in his massive “triple-decker warship.” His St Nicholas Day carried a small army of 300 men.
