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

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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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War of the
Spanish Succession
South America | West Indies

* Santa Marta
* Guadeloupe
* Nassau
* Colonia del Sacramento
* 1st Cartagena
* 1st Rio de Janeiro
* 2nd Cartagena
* 2nd Rio de Janeiro
* Cassard

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

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1. ^ Boxer, p. 91

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

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