Capture of Fort-Dauphin (1794)

Capture of Fort-Dauphin (1794)
Part of the Haitian Revolution and the War of the Pyrenees
A View from the north of Fort Liberte
Date 28–29 January 1794 Location Fort-Dauphin, Saint-Domingue Result Spanish victory[1]
Belligerents
Spain	France
Commanders and leaders
Gabriel de Aristizábal	Candy Jean-François Papillon
Strength
3 ships of the line 1 frigate 400 men	1031 men
Casualties and losses
none[1]	1031 captured[1] 41 artillery guns taken[1]

The Capture of Fort-Dauphin was a bloodless encounter of the French Revolutionary Wars on which a Spanish expedition under Gabriel de Aristizábal seized Fort-Liberté, then named Fort-Dauphin, from Revolutionary France. The French colonial garrisons, consisting of over a thousand men,^[2] surrendered without firing a single shot.^[1]