The Battle of Acapulco were a series of battles during the French intervention in Mexico. Acapulco was a key port of the Pacific trade routes and thus changed hands several times in the course of the Franco-Mexican war. In this period the population of the city had decreased from 6000 to 2000.
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| - The Battle of Acapulco were a series of battles during the French intervention in Mexico. Acapulco was a key port of the Pacific trade routes and thus changed hands several times in the course of the Franco-Mexican war. In this period the population of the city had decreased from 6000 to 2000.
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| Strength
| - 4(xsd:integer)
- 5(xsd:integer)
- 100(xsd:integer)
- 400(xsd:integer)
- 581(xsd:integer)
- 860(xsd:integer)
- 1500(xsd:integer)
- 4000(xsd:integer)
- Warship Saginaw
- Warship Saranac
- ~dozen garrison
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| Partof
| - the French intervention in Mexico
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| Date
| - 1864-06-03(xsd:date)
- --01-12
- --09-11
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| Commander
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- Adolphe Charles Émile Bouët
- Captain Eugène Mathurin Marie Le Bris Durumain
- Charles Henry Bell
- General Apolonio Montenegro
- John Augustus Sutter, Jr.
- Juan Álvarez
- Luis Ghilardi
- Rafael Solís
- Rear Admiral Adolphe Charles Émile Bouët
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| Caption
| - One of the Acapulco Forts that survived the bombardment
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| Casualties
| - 12(xsd:integer)
- 581(xsd:integer)
- possibly none
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| Result
| - French victory, city surrender
- Imperial victory, city surrender
- French victory, city evacuation, three forts rendered unoperational
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| Notes
| - Americans remained neutral. US Navy only observed the blockade and defended its trade interests but also protected the city from looting during the interregnum.
- Americans remained neutral. According to the accounts Don Juan Sutter raised the American flag onto a boat and sailed to the French flagship Pallas across the cannon fire. He convinced Admiral Bouet to stop the shelling of civilian houses.
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| combatant
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- Second Mexican Empire
- Second French Empire
- Mexican republicans
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| Place
| - Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico
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| Conflict
| - 1(xsd:integer)
- 2(xsd:integer)
- 3(xsd:integer)
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| Units
| - Pacific Squadron
- French naval division of the Pacific ocean
- Manzanillo detachment, French Navy
- Southern Army
- Algerian Riflemen Battalion, French naval division of the Pacific ocean
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| - The Battle of Acapulco were a series of battles during the French intervention in Mexico. Acapulco was a key port of the Pacific trade routes and thus changed hands several times in the course of the Franco-Mexican war. In this period the population of the city had decreased from 6000 to 2000.
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