Hon:ble SIR CHARLES WAGER / First Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty. THIS PLAN / of the Harbour, Town and Forts of / PORTO BELLO / (Taken by Edward Vernon Esq r. Vernon's dispatches included Philip Durell's manuscript map which appears to have been engraved and published in record time, the publication date being only seventeen days after the arrival of the map in London.
Vernon selected him to take the news of the victory back to London and he arrived on 13 March 1740. According to Charnock (1794-8), Captain James Rentone, by whom the drawing for this map was brought back to England, was employed by Vice Admiral Vernon because of his knowledge of the area. The victory was popular with the British public, the Portobello Road in London being named after it, and George Washinton's estate, Mount Vernon, in Virginia being named in honour of the Admiral.Ī plan of Porto Bello by Lt Philip Durell was published in Traill, (1894-7), vol. The title gives the date of the battle as the 22nd of November however, the engagement was begun on the 20th and the town was taken on the 21st. Oriented with south-east to top (compass rose). War with Spain (Jenkins's Ear) (1739-48) part of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48). A map of the Battle of Porto Bello, fought on 20-21 November 1739 between the British Fleet, commanded by Vice-Admiral Edward Vernon (1684-1757), and the Spanish garrison, under the command of Francisco Javier de la Vega, which resulted in the British capturing the town.
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