15,000 troops and militia 6 ships
1,500 men Result Portuguese victory | Date 19 September 1710 | |
270 killed and wounded 600 killed
600 taken prisoner People also search for Action of 23 March 1654 | ||
The 1710 Battle of Rio de Janeiro was a failed raid by a French privateering fleet on the Portuguese colonial city of Rio de Janeiro in August 1710, during the War of the Spanish Succession. The raid was a complete failure; its commander, Jean-François Duclerc, and more than 600 men were captured. French anger over the Portuguese failure to properly hold, release, or exchange the prisoners contributed to a second, successful raid, the following year.
Duclerc was assassinated while in captivity in March 1711; his killers (and their reason for killing him) are unknown.
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