English privateers attacked Puerto Caballos as they did other places along the Honduran coast, in 1592, Christopher Newport briefly occupied the town. Because it was vulnerable to pirates until the building of the Spanish fort at Omoa in the 18th century, it had few permanent residents in the 16th and 17th centuries. People preferred to come out to the coast from San Pedro when a ship came into port. In 1869 Puerto Caballos changed its name to Puerto Cortés in honour of Hernán Cortés.
Bananas, railroads and development in the twentieth century
The proposal to construct an "inter-oceanic railway"
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