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Capture of Fort-Dauphin (1794)
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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]
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Capture of Fort-Dauphin (1794) | |||||||
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Part of the Haitian Revolution and the War of the Pyrenees | |||||||
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3 ships of the line 1 frigate 400 men | 1031 men | ||||||
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none[1] |
1031 captured[1] 41 artillery guns taken[1] |
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