Holmes’s fleet attacks Anomabo and Egya, with Fante permission.

Anomabu surrenders but the Dutch Fort Good Hope at Egya remains defiant. Holmes and a combined English-African force from Cormantine storms the fort but suffers heavy losses. Facing inevitable defeat, the Dutch commander placed gunpowder among the trade goods in his storeroom as a trap, which blew up eighty of the victorious English-Kormantin troops. Africans retaliated by beheading their Dutch prisoners. Holmes then departs the Gold Coast with plundered gold worth between £2000 and £3,000.