Battle of Rio de Janeiro (1710)

1710 naval battle

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Battle of Rio de Janeiro

Part of the War of the Spanish Succession

Date	19 September 1710
Location	Rio de Janeiro, State of Brazil
Result	Portuguese victory

Belligerents

Portuguese Empire

State of Brazil

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

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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.

References

Boxer, p. 91

Boxer, Charles Ralph. The golden age of Brazil, 1695-1750: growing pains of a colonial society

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