Columbus left some of his crew at La Navidad and returned to Spain, confident that his men were not threatened natives, whom he believed to be friendly and powerless . Caonabo led an attack on the fort in 1493, destroying it and killing all 39 Spaniards who remained. Anacaona would later claim thatshe , incensed at the treatment of native women by the Spanish, had incited Caonabo to carry out the attack . When Columbus returned to Hispaniola and found La Navidad destroyed and its inhabitants killed, Caonabo quickly came to be considered one of the most dangerous native leaders on the island. The cacique Guacanagaríx of Marién informed the Spaniards that Caonabo was responsible for the attack. In 1494, Bartholomew Columbus received word that Caonabo was planning an attack on the Spanish fort at Santo Tomás. In response, Columbus sent a party of four hundred men led by Alonso de Ojeda to march into the interior of the island in order to instill fear and subjugate the natives.
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