Editing Acapulco (section)

=== 17th–19th centuries ===
[[File:Hasekura in Rome.JPG|thumb|[[Hasekura Tsunenaga]]; the Japanese samurai who led the delegation to Mexico.]]
[[File:JLNYCAcapulcoBay.jpg|thumb|[[Puerto Marqués]].]]
On January 25, 1614, a delegation led by samurai [[Hasekura Tsunenaga]], which included over one hundred [[Japanese Christians]] as well as twenty-two [[samurai]] under the [[shōgun]] [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], arrived from [[Japan]] to Acapulco as part of a mission to form closer relations with [[Catholic]] Europe. A fight soon broke out in which a Japanese samurai stabbed a Spanish colonial soldier in Acapulco. This was witnessed and recorded by historian [[Chimalpahin]], who was the grandson of an [[Aztec]] nobleman. Some of Tsunenaga's delegation would stay and marry with the locals.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Unknown Story of the Samurai Who Traveled to Mexico Hundreds of Years Ago |url=https://curiosmos.com/the-unknown-story-of-the-samurai-who-traveled-to-mexico-hundreds-of-years-ago/ |first=Ivan |last=Petricevic |date=10 February 2020 |website=Curiosmos |access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref>

The [[Manila-Acapulco Galleon|galleon trade]] made its yearly run from the mid-16th century until the early 19th. The luxury items it brought to New Spain attracted the attention of English and Dutch [[pirate]]s, such as [[Francis Drake]], [[Henry Morgan]] and [[Thomas Cavendish]], who called it "The Black Ship". A Dutch fleet invaded Acapulco in 1615, destroying much of the town before being driven off. The [[Fort of San Diego]] was built the following year to protect the port and the cargo of arriving ships. The fort was destroyed by an earthquake in 1776 and was rebuilt between 1778 and 1783.

At the beginning of the 19th century, King [[Charles IV of Spain|Charles IV]] declared Acapulco a Ciudad Official and it became an essential part of the Spanish Crown. However, not long after, the [[Mexican War of Independence]] began. In 1810, [[José María Morelos y Pavón]] attacked and burnt down the city, after he defeated royalist commander Francisco Parés at the [[Battle of Tres Palos]].<ref name="encmuc" /> The independence of Mexico in 1821 ended the run of the Manila Galleon. Acapulco's importance as a port recovered during the [[California Gold Rush]] in the mid-19th-century, with ships going to and coming from Panama stopping here. This city was besieged on 19 April 1854 by [[Antonio López de Santa Anna]] after Guerrero's leadership had rebelled by issuing the [[Plan of Ayutla|Plan de Ayutla]]. After an unsuccessful week of fighting, Santa Anna retreated.<ref>{{cite book |first=Will |last=Fowler |date=2007 |title=Santa Anna of Mexico |location=Lincoln, NE |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |page=313 |isbn=978-0-803211209}}</ref>