coast to cut off the return of Armada survivors, and Cuéllar was shipwrecked in a firefight in which many of the survivors were drowned or killed after capture. Once again he found himself clinging to flotsam as he came ashore in Flanders, where he entered the city of Dunkirk wearing only his shirt. He wrote an account of his experiences and returned to Spain some time after. O'Rourke was hanged at London for treason in 1590; the charges against him included succouring survivors of the Armada. MacClancy was captured by Bingham's brother in 1590 and beheaded. Later life After Cuéllar served in the army of Philip II under Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, Count Fuentes and Count Mansfeld. Between 1589 and 1598 he served variously in the Siege of París, the enterprises of Laon, Corbie, Capela, Châtelet, Doullens, Cambrai, Calais, and Ardres, and in the siege of Hults. In 1599 and 1600 he served under Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy in the war of Piemonte. In 1600 he was in Naples with viceroy Lemos. In 1601 he was commissioned to return to America. He was a pattern of infantry captain in a galleon to islas de Barlovento (Windward Islands), but did not sail in don Luis Fernández de Córdova's navy until 1602. It was Cuéllar's last military service. He lived in Madrid from 1603 to 1606, hoping for new commissions in America. Nothing is known about Cuellar's death or whether he had any children. References T.P. Kilfeather Ireland: Graveyard of the Spanish Armada (Anvil Books, 1967) Online version of Cuellar's account Francisco And The Chieftain's Wife by J.P. Rooney (Ireland, 2007). Novel inspired by Francisco's own narrative El capitán Francisco de Cuéllar antes y después de la jornada de Inglaterra, by Rafael M. Girón Pascual People of Elizabethan Ireland Spanish naval officers 16th-century Spanish people Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown