Battle of Quilmes | |||||||
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Part of the Cisplatine War | |||||||
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Ships:[1][2] | Total guns: 138 | ||||||
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No ships lost 6 killed 24 wounded[4][3] |
1 frigate sunk 30-100 killed 70-100 wounded[4][5][1] |
The naval Battle of Quilmes took place between a fleet of the Imperial Brazilian Navy, commanded by British admiral James Norton and a fleet of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata under the command of William Brown. The confrontations began at dawn on July 30, 1826 and lasted for three hours.[4]
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