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| Battle of Rio de Janeiro | |||||||
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| Part of the War of the Spanish Succession | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 France | |||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Francisco de Castro | Jean Duclerc (POW) | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 15,000 troops and militia |
6 ships 1,500 men | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 270 killed and wounded |
600 killed 600 captured | ||||||
The 1710 Battle of Rio de Janeiro was a failed raid by a French privateering fleet on the Portuguese colonial city of Rio de Janeiro in August 1710, during the War of the Spanish Succession. The raid was a complete failure; its commander, Jean-François Duclerc, and more than 600 men were captured. French anger over the Portuguese failure to properly hold, release, or exchange the prisoners contributed to a second, successful raid, the following year.
Duclerc was killed while in Portuguese captivity on 18 March 1711; his killers (and their reason for killing him) are unknown.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Boxer, p. 91
- Boxer, Charles Ralph. The golden age of Brazil, 1695-1750: growing pains of a colonial society
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