Capture of Fort-Dauphin (1794)
Capture of Fort-Dauphin (1794) | |||||||
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Part of the Haitian Revolution and the War of the Pyrenees | |||||||
A View from the north of Fort Liberte | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Spain | France | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Gabriel de Aristizábal | Candy | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
3 ships of the line 1 frigate 400 men | 1031 men | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
none[1] | 1031 captured[1] 41 artillery guns taken[1] |
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- Porrentruy
- Quiévrain
- Marquain
- Verdun
- Thionville
- Valmy
- Lille
- Mainz
- Jemappes
- Sardinia
- Martinique
- Guadeloupe
- Den Helder
- Siegburg
- Altenkirchen
- Wetzlar
- Kircheib
- 1st Kehl
- Malsch
- Neresheim
- Amberg
- Newfoundland
- Würzburg
- Limburg
- 2nd Kehl
- Biberach
- Ireland
- Fishguard
- Neuwied
- Diersheim
- Flanders campaign
- Chouannerie
- Mediterranean campaign
- War in the Vendée
- War of the Pyrenees
- Italian campaigns
- East Indies Theatre
- Rhine campaign of 1793–94
- Atlantic campaign
- Rhine campaign of 1795
- Rhine campaign of 1796
- Italian campaign of 1796-1797
- Anglo-Spanish War
The Capture of Fort-Dauphin was a bloodless encounter of the French Revolutionary Wars on which a Spanish expedition under Gabriel de Aristizábal seized Fort-Liberté, then named Fort-Dauphin, from Revolutionary France. The French colonial garrisons, consisting of over a thousand men,[2] surrendered without firing a single shot.[1]
Capture
The French, blockaded by land and sea[3] were forced to capitulate. When the Spanish seized the fort, Candy, the French commander, was arrested and sent to Mexico to do hard labour, whereas the rest of prisoners were sent to France as prisoners of war.[3]
Aftermath
With the British having captured Pondicherry in Eastern India and Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Lucia and other small islands in the West Indies, the capture of Fort Dauphin by the Spanish troops was an added blow to those who received France in its colonies[clarification needed].
Notes
- ^ a b c d e Marley 2008, p. 538.
- ^ Warden, Courcelles & Saint-Allais, p. 299.
- ^ a b Madiou 2010, p. 170.
References
- Madiou, Thomas (2010). Histoire d'Haïti (in French). Nabu Press. ISBN 978-1-142-83207-0.
- Marley, David (2008). Wars of the Americas: a chronology of armed conflict in the Western Hemisphere, 1492 to the present. Vol. 1. ABC-CLIO press. ISBN 978-1-59884-100-8.
- Warden, David Baillie; Courcelles, Jean Baptiste Pierre Jullien; Saint-Allais, Nicolas Vigton de. L'Art de vérifier les dates (in French). Vol. 26.
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