Maritime History

Battle of San Domingo

The Battle of San Domingo was a naval battle of the War of the Third Coalition fought on 6 February 1806 between squadrons of French and British ships of the line off the southern coast of the French-occupied Captaincy General of Santo Domingo (San Domingo in contemporary English-language accounts) in the Caribbean. All five of the French ships of the line commanded by Counter-admiral Corentin Urbain de Leissègues were captured or destroyed. The Royal Navy led by Vice-Admiral of the Blue Sir John Duckworth lost no ships and suffered fewer than a hundred killed while the French lost approximately 1,500 men. Only a small number of the French squadron were able to escape. The battle was the last major engagement of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars between British and French ships of the line in open water.

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• ▸Battle of the Kerch Peninsula
• ▸Frederick L. Scarf
• ▸HMAS Arunta (I30)

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