Unit/ Formation: HM Ships
Location: San Domingo
Period/ Conflict: Napoleonic Wars
Year: 1806
Date/s: 6th February 1806
The Battle of San Domingo was a naval battle of the Napoleonic Wars fought on 6 February 1806 between squadrons of French and British ships of the line off the southern coast of the French-occupied Spanish colonial Captaincy General of Santo Domingo in the Caribbean.
All five of the French ships of the line commanded by Vice-Admiral Corentin-Urbain Leissègues were captured or destroyed. The Royal Navy led by Vice-Admiral Sir John Thomas 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.
In the course of the fighting, in which Royal Marines played an important role, Captain James Malcolm (Lieutenant-Colonel Sir James Malcolm, KCB) for his valour in that action was brevetted a Major on the Army List with seniority in that grade dating 6 February 1806.
The battle of San Domingo was the last fleet engagement of the war between French and British capital ships in open water.
Read more here: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir James Malcolm, KCB
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