Dutch West Indies campaign

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Dutch West Indies campaign

Part of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War

Île de Saint Eustache en 1781, Unknown author
| Date| 1781-1782

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Location|

Sint Eustatius, Saba, Sint Maarten, Essequibo, Berbice, Demerara

Result|  Status quo ante bellum
Belligerents
Great Britain|  Dutch Republic
France
Commanders and leaders
George Rodney
Samuel Hood|  Comte de Guichen
Comte d'Estaing
Comte de Grasse

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Fourth Anglo-Dutch War

* Sint Eustatius
* Sombrero
* Gold Coast
* Elmina
* Essequibo and Demerara
* Barbary Coast
* Saldanha Bay
* Dogger Bank
* Negapatam
* Trincomalee

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Battles of the American Revolutionary War Involving France
1778–1783

Europe and Mediterranean

* 17 June 1778
* 1st Ushant
* 20 October 1778
* 11 September 1778
* 1st Jersey
* 13 May 1779
* English Channel
* Plymouth
* Gibraltar
* Flamborough Head
* 6 October 1779
* 15 June 1780
* Cape Santa Maria
* 10 August 1780
* 13 August 1780
* Brest
* 2nd Jersey
* Minorca
* 2nd Ushant
* 3rd Ushant
* Île-de-Batz
* Cape Spartel
* Ferrol

Atlantic

* Madeira
* Bermuda
* Porto Praya

Caribbean

* Dominica
* 1st St. Lucia
* 2nd St. Lucia
* Saint Vincent
* 1st Grenada
* 2nd Grenada
* 1st Martinique
* Guadeloupe
* 2nd Martinique
* Fort Royal
* Tobago
* Brimstone Hill
* Frigate Bay
* Demerara & Essequibo
* Montserrat
* The Saintes
* Mona Passage
* 18 October 1782
* 6 December 1782
* 15 February 1783
* Grand Turk

North America

* Rhode Island
* Charles Town
* Savannah
* 1st Long Island
* Cape Henry
* Cape Breton
* Cape Ann
* Yorktown
* Chesapeake
* Yorktown
* Hudson Bay
* 2nd Long Island
* Delaware Bay
* 2nd Chesapeake

East Indies

* Pondicherry
* Sadras
* Providien
* Negapatam
* Batticaloa
* Pisang
* Trincomalee
* 1st Cuddalore
* 2nd Cuddalore

The Dutch West Indies campaign was a series of minor conflicts in 1781 and 1782, in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War and the American Revolutionary War. Following Great Britain's declaration of war on the Dutch Republic in December 1780, British Admiral George Brydges Rodney, the commander of the Royal Navy in the West Indies, was notified by a fast-sailing packet ship of the declaration. He immediately acted to ensure control over as many of the Dutch colonies as possible, capturing Sint Eustatius, a vital entrepot of French and Dutch trade between their colonies and Europe, in early February 1781. He also captured Saba and Sint Maarten, and orchestrated the capture of the Dutch colonial outposts of Berbice, Demerara, and Essequibo in South America. A planned expedition by Samuel Hood against Curaçao was called off on rumors that a French fleet was approaching. A French expedition in 1782 captured Demerara and Essequibo, although the fate of the other colonies were settled at the conclusion of the war.

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* Koch, Cristopher. The Revolutions Of Europe Being An Historical View Of The European Nations From The Subversion Of The Roman Empire In The West, To The Abdication Of Napoleon # Whittaker Ave Maria Lane Publishing (1839) ASIN B0011HSJG8
* Edler, F. (2001) [1911]. The Dutch Republic and The American Revolution. Honolulu, Hawaii: University Press of the Pacific. ISBN 0-89875-269-8.
* Marley, David. Wars of the Americas: a chronology of armed conflict in the New World, 1492 to the present
* Rodway, James. History of British Guiana, Volume 1

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