The Capture of Fort-Dauphin was a bloodless encounter of the French Revolutionary Wars

French Revolutionary Wars

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 on which a Spanish

Spain

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 expedition

Spanish Navy

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 under Gabriel de Aristizábal seized Fort-Liberté

Fort-Liberté

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, then named Fort-Dauphin, from Revolutionary

French Revolution

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 France

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. The French colonial garrisons

French colonization of the Americas

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, consisting of over a thousand men, surrendered without firing a single shot.

Capture

The French, blockaded by land and sea were forced to capitulate. When the Spanish seized the fort, Candy, the commander of the french was arrested and sent to Mexico to do hard labour, the rest of prisoners were sent to France as prisoners of war

Prisoner of war

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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.