Capture Of Fort-Dauphin (1794)
Capture
In late January 1794, a Spanish fleet of three ships of the line accompanied by a frigate landed 400 soldiers and blockaded Fort-Dauphin. On 28 January, the French Republican garrison, commanded by the mulatto Candy, surrendered to Admiral Aristizábal y Espinosa without firing a single shot. Candy, however, made it a condition for his capitulation that Jean-François Papillon's black troops not be allowed to enter the city.
The Spanish did not respect the terms of the capitulation. Candy was arrested and sent to Mexico to do hard labour, whereas the rest of prisoners were sent to France as prisoners of war. Fort-Dauphin was occupied by Spanish troops of the Puerto Rico Regiment under the command of Joaquim de Saso. The Spanish captured 41 cannons, having suffered no losses.
Citations
- ^ Marley 2008, p. 538.
- ^ Warden, Courcelles & Saint-Allais, p. 299.
- ^ Madiou 2010, p. 170.
- ^ Madiou 1847, pp. 169–170.
References
- Madiou, Thomas (2010). Histoire d'Haïti (in French). Nabu Press. ISBN 978-1-142-83207-0.
- Madiou, Thomas (1847). Histoire d'Haïti.
- 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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