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Battle Of Nassau (other)
The Battle of the Bahamas or the Battle of Nassau may refer to one of several military actions in and around the town of Nassau, on the island of New Providence in The Bahamas: * Raid on Charles Town, a 1684 Spanish Raid * Raid on Nassau, a 1703 Franco-Spanish raid during the War of the Spanish Succession * Raid on Nassau (1720), a Spanish expedition against Nassau during the War of the Quadruple Alliance * Battle of Nassau, a 1776 American raid during the American War of Independence * Capture of the Bahamas (1782) The Capture of the Bahamas took place in May 1782 during the American Revolutionary War when a Spanish force under the command of Juan Manuel Cagigal arrived on the island of New Providence near Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas. The Britis ..., the capture of islands by Spanish forces under Juan de Cagigal during the American War of Independence * Capture of the Bahamas (1783), their recapture by American Loyalist forces during the American War of Independence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raid On Charles Town
The Raid on Charles Town, or Spanish raid on New Providence, was a Spanish naval expedition on 19 January 1684 (O.S.) led by Cuban corsair Juan de Alarcón against the English privateering stronghold of Charles Town (later renamed Nassau), capital of the Bahamas. The Bahamian settlements and defenses were reduced to ruins, and the Spanish carried off the governor in chains, together with the inhabitants. Background The Bahamas harboured pirates and privateers who preyed on Spanish ships.Mancke/ Shammas p. 255. Governor Clarke, described as "one of Cromwell's officers"Marley 2010, pp. 76–77. justified privateering as necessary for the colony's defence, but in one letter of marque he authorized offensive attacks on Spanish holdings far from the Bahamas. Clarke's encouragement of privateering contravened and jeopardized the 1667 and 1670 treaties of Madrid, which established peace between the English and Spanish. On 19 January 1684 (O.S.), a Spanish expedition reduced the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raid On Nassau
The Raid on Nassau, on the Bahamian island of New Providence, was a privately-raised Franco-Spanish expedition against the English taking place in October 1703, during the War of the Spanish Succession. The Franco-Spanish victory leading to Nassau's brief occupation and then to its destruction.Marley (2005), p. 7.Marley (1998), p. 226. The joint Bourbon invasion was led by Blas Moreno Mondragón and Clause Le Chesnaye, with the attack focusing on Nassau, the capital of the English Bahamas, an important base of privateering for English corsairs in the Cuban and Saint Domingue's Caribbean The Caribbean ( , ; ; ; ) is a region in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies. Bordered by North America to the north, Central America ... seas. The town of Nassau was quickly takenAlbury, p. 55. and sacked, plundered and burnt down.Craton & Saunders, p. 103. The fort of Nassau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raid On Nassau (1720)
The Raid on Nassau took place from 24 February to 1 March 1720, at the end of the 1718 to 1720 War of the Quadruple Alliance. A Spanish expeditionary force attacked the British settlement of Nassau, Bahamas, but was repulsed. Background In 1718, former privateer Captain Woodes Rogers was appointed Governor of the Bahamas, in which role he suppressed pirates, reformed the civil administration and restored trade. In February 1719, he learned the Spanish intended to conquer the Bahamas, but instead they were diverted to recapture Pensacola from the French. This gave him time to further consolidate his position by rebuilding Fort Nassau, which was completed in January 1720. By then, in the Caribbean there was armed aggression between British and Spanish ships due to the clandestine trade of the former; this increased with the outbreak of the War of the Quadruple Alliance. In fact the Treaty of The Hague ending the war had been signed just before the raid although not yet in ef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Nassau
The Raid of Nassau (March 3–4, 1776) was a naval operation and amphibious assault by American forces against the British port of Nassau, Bahamas, during the American Revolutionary War. The raid, designed to resolve the issue of gunpowder shortages, resulted in the seizure of two forts and large quantities of military supplies before the raiders drew back to New England, where they fought an unsuccessful engagement with a British frigate. During the American Revolutionary War, the Patriot forces suffered from a shortage of gunpowder. In response to such shortages, the Second Continental Congress ordered an American fleet under the command of Esek Hopkins to patrol the Virginia and Carolina coastlines; secret orders were possibly given to Hopkins instructing him to raid Nassau, where stocks of gunpowder removed from Virginia had been sent. The fleet departed Cape Henlopen, Delaware, on February 17, 1776, arriving at the Bahamas on March 1. Two days later, two hundred Cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capture Of The Bahamas (1782)
The Capture of the Bahamas took place in May 1782 during the American Revolutionary War when a Spanish force under the command of Juan Manuel Cagigal arrived on the island of New Providence near Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas. The British commander at Nassau, John Maxwell decided to surrender the island without a fight when confronted by the superior force. Background Spain had entered the American War of Independence in 1779 and launched a campaign to drive the British out of the Gulf of Mexico, overrunning the British colony of West Florida, and seizing its major outposts at Mobile and Pensacola. The Spanish commander Bernardo de Gálvez planned an attack against Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas which served as a major British privateering base. Gálvez authorised an expedition against the islands in late 1781, but this was postponed during the Yorktown Campaign, which led to the surrender of a British army in October 1781. In early 1782 the scheme was revived and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capture Of The Bahamas (1783)
The Capture of the Bahamas took place in April 1783, late in the American Revolutionary War, when a Loyalist expedition under the command of Andrew Deveaux set out to retake the Bahamas from the Spanish. The expedition was successful and Nassau fell without a shot being fired. It was one of the last actions of the entire war. Background The Bahamas had been taken by Spanish forces from the British in May 1782, also without a shot being fired. However Saint Augustine in East Florida was still in British hands, the Spanish thinking it too well defended to attack. A plan was devised to retake the Bahamas by launching an attack on Nassau. Andrew Deveaux was a Loyalist and veteran of the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War. Recapture Major Deveaux departed from Saint Augustine with seventy followers and was joined at sea two days later by the 26-gun privateer brigantine ''Perseverance'' of Thomas Dow and the 16-gun, 120-man brigantine ''Whitby Warrior'' of Danie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
