Battles of Acapulco
The Battle of Acapulco were a series of battles during the Second 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.
| 1st Battle of Acapulco | ||||||||
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| Part of the Second French intervention in Mexico | ||||||||
Entry of the French division in the Bay of Acapulco, January 10, 1863. | ||||||||
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| Belligerents | ||||||||
| Mexican Republicans | French Empire | United States | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | ||||||||
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Diego Álvarez Benítez Juan Álvarez: 54–55 Luis Ghilardi: 125 |
Captain Eugène Mathurin Marie Le Bris Durumain: 1060 : 101 Rear Admiral Adolphe Charles Émile Bouët: 101 | John Augustus Sutter, Jr.: 54–55 | ||||||
| Units involved | ||||||||
| Southern Army | French naval division of the Pacific ocean | Pacific Squadron | ||||||
| Strength | ||||||||
| ~dozen garrison |
4 men-o-wars 100 marines | Warship Saranac: 54–55 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | ||||||||
| 12–13 dead | possibly none | possibly none | ||||||
| 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.: 54–55 | ||||||||
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