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Content Enable editor Use plain text Code entry It was hoped that Vernon would next attack Havana….But just now Spain sent Torres to the West Indies with a powerful Spanish fleet. To take Havana was easier said than done. Vernon therefore turned to Cartagena. But a deadly climate and quarrels with Wentworth caused disaster there, and Vernon returned to Jamaica.2 [Note 2 For Vernon's movements in 1741, see Clowes, The Royal Navy, III, 67-75; Hart, F. R., Admirals of the Caribbean, 149-153, and the bibliography, 194-195. Original Papers Relating to the Expedition to Panama, 1741-42, London, 1744. Printed for Mr. Cooper. Original Papers Relating to the Expedition to the Island of Cuba [1741]. London, 1744. Printed for Mr. Cooper. Smollett, Tobias, History of England, III, 381-391 (London, 1811). In his Adventures of Roderick Random, a novel, Smollett wrote a brief account of the expedition against Cartagena, in which he took part as an army surgeon. He wrote a longer account in his Compendium of Voyages (London, 1756). For Spanish reprisals, from September, 1739, to November, 1741, see Clowes, op. eit., Ill, 264—265. For plans for the Spanish campaign against Georgia and Carolina, see the correspondence and instructions in Ga. Hist. Soc. Col., VII, Pt. Ill, 20-47; Ford, W. C, Vemon-Wager Manuscripts, 87-100, passim.] Then followed another failure. Vernon was ordered to take Havana, but Torres still blocked the way. Santiago was therefore selected as the victim instead. Gingerly Vernon looked it over. Concluding that it was impregnable by sea, he sent Wentworth to attack it by land. But Wentworth lost heart in the trackless swamps, and turned back. The campaign was soon abandoned, and the fleet returned to Jamaica.

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