Bocachica
Narrow channel once blocked by scuttled warships beneath a fortress guarding the bay entrance.
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This guide to Bocachica in Cartagena asks whether a man missing one eye, one arm, and most of a leg could really hold off nearly two hundred British ships from this channel. You'll meet Blas de Lezo, the Spanish admiral nicknamed half-man by his own sailors, and Edward Vernon, the British commander so sure of victory he had surrender medals struck in London before the fighting ended. It follows the standoff Lezo mounted here in 1741, lashing warships together at this very spot while heat and disease did the rest of the work. Stand at the channel's mouth and picture the ships that once blocked it.
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