Capture of Fort-Dauphin (1794)

Capture of Fort-Dauphin
Part of the Haitian Revolution and the War of the Pyrenees
View of the bay of Fort-Dauphin by Nicolas Ozanne, 1791
Date 28–29 January 1794 Location Fort-Dauphin, Saint-Domingue Result Spanish victory[1]
Belligerents
Spain	France
Commanders and leaders
Gabriel de Aristizábal	Candy
Strength
3 ships of the line 1 frigate 400 men	1,031 men
Casualties and losses
None[1]	1,031 captured[1] 41 guns captured[1]

The capture of Fort-Dauphin was a bloodless encounter of the French Revolutionary Wars in which a Spanish expeditionary force under Admiral Gabriel de Aristizábal y Espinosa [es] seized Fort-Dauphin (now Fort-Liberté), in Saint-Domingue, from France. The French garrison of about a thousand men,^[2] blockaded by land and sea,^[3] surrendered without firing a single shot.^[1]