 Although the elimination of the "flibustiers" as a group from Hôpital reinforced the authority of the colonial administration, it also made the region a more attractive target for the English.In order to protect the area, in 1706, a captain named de Saint-André sailed into the bay just below the hospital, in a ship named "Le Prince".It is said that M. de Saint-André named the area "Port-au-Prince" (meaning "Port of the Prince"), but the port and the surrounding region continued to be known as "Hôpital", but the islets in the bay had already been known as "les îlets du Prince" as early as 1680.