1500-1799 | Burning crops | Burning towns and cities | Guinea-Bissau | Looting and plunder | Slavery
HAWKINS’ SAILORS SACK CACHEU, TORTURING, KILLING AND SEIZING SLAVES
30 November 1567 Cacheu was a Portuguese trading and administrative town at the mouth of what was then called the Santo-Domingo River on the West African coast. It was situated a short distance south of Cape Roxo in what is today Guinea-Bissau. On the evening of 29 November 1567, three heavily armed British ships sailed…