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rdfs:label
  • Battle of Acapulco
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
skos:prefLabel
  • Battle of Acapulco
skos:altLabel
  • bombarded
  • Fall of Acapulco
  • First battle of Acapulco
  • Second battle of Acapulco
clgo:causalties
  • 12–13 dead
  • 581 POWs
clgo:combatant
  • French Empire
  • Mexican Empire
  • Mexican Republicans
  • 22pxUnited States
clgo:commander
clgo:date
  • 1864-06-03
  • 1865-09-11
clgo:isPartOfMilitaryConflict
clgo:notes
  • Americans remained neutral. US Navy only observed the blockade and defended its trade interests but also protected the city from looting during the interregnum.
  • Americans remained neutral. According to the accounts Don Juan Sutter raised the American flag onto a boat and sailed to the French flagship Pallas across the cannon fire. He convinced Admiral Bouet to stop the shelling of civilian houses.
clgo:place
clgo:result
  • French victory, city surrender
  • Imperial victory, city surrender
  • French victory, city evacuation, three forts rendered unoperational
clgo:strength
  • (withdrawn)
  • 5 vessels
  • 100 marines
  • 1500 (New York Times est.)
  • 4 men-o-wars
  • 400 soldiers,two French vessels
  • 4000 (Sacramento Daily Union est.)
  • 581 men
  • 860 men
  • Warship Saginaw
  • Warship Saranac
  • ~dozen garrison
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