Complex sentence: The American and Spanish flotilla searched several Puerto Rican ports before finding the pirates cruising off Boca del Infierno near Ponce, on the island's southern coast and found the brigands on March 2,1825.
Split into simpler sentences: The American and Spanish flotilla searched several Puerto Rican ports before finding the pirates cruising off Boca del Infierno near Ponce, on the island's southern coast. There they found the brigands on March 2,1825.