there is an account of his voyage after the great treasure at Puerto Rico, when he was general of Queen Elizabeth's Indian armada.
In January 1596 an attempt to cross the isthmus of Panama from Nombre de Dios in order to seize the silver rich port of Portobelo, Colón also ended in failure.
Ravaged with dysentery and other diseases Baskerville bravely led his troops over thirty miles before heading back.
He commanded the English army in Picardy, during the Siege of Amiens but died of a fever at Picquigny, on 4 June 1597.
Shortly before his death, he had purchased the manors of Sunningwell and Bayworth in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), where his widow – Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Throckmorton of Tortworth in Gloucestershire – lived and was buried.