A British Sailor offering a sword to an unarmed Spanish Officer to defend himself, at the attack of Fort Omoa, which was taken by Escalade on the 20 Of Octr, 1779 under the command of Captn Dalrymple and Commodore Lutterell.

The Battle of San Fernando de Omoa was a short siege and battle between British and Spanish forces fought not long after Spain entered the American Revolutionary War on the American side. On the 16 October 1779, following a brief attempt at siege, a force of 150 British soldiers and seamen assaulted and captured the fortifications at San Fernando de Omoa in the Captaincy General of Guatemala (now Honduras) on the Gulf of Honduras.

This beautiful copper plate engraving is from Edward Barnard's History of England published by Alexander Hogg, London, 1783.