Capture of Pensacola (1719)

1719 battle

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Capture of Pensacola

Part of War of the Quadruple Alliance

Bay of Pensacola

Date	May 1719
Location	Pensacola
Result	Status quo ante bellum

Belligerents

France

Spain

Commanders and leaders

Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville

Strength

Unknown

War of the Quadruple Alliance

Sardinia
Cape Passaro
Milazzo
Eilean Donan Castle
Glen Shiel
Francavilla
Pensacola
San Sebastián
Vigo and Pontevedra
Cape St. Vincent
Nassau
Villasur expedition

The Capture of Pensacola took place in May 1719 during the War of the Quadruple Alliance when a French force led by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville took and occupied the settlement of Pensacola in the Spanish colony of Florida. The French occupied Pensacola until August 1719, when a large Spanish force arrived and compelled the small French garrison to surrender.^[1]^[2] This Spanish occupation only lasted until September 1, when a French fleet arrived to reassert French control.^[1]

The war ended status quo ante bellum and Pensacola was officially returned to Spanish control, though the French garrison did not withdraw until 1726.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ ^a ^b Bense p.14
^ Marley p.242

Bibliography

Bense, Judith A. Archaeology of colonial Pensacola. University Press of Florida, 1999.
Claiborne, John. Mississippi, as a province, territory, and state. Contains a somewhat detailed account of the affair.
Marley, David. Wars of the Americas: a chronology of armed conflict in the New World, 1492 to the Present. ABC-Clio, 1998.

30°20′52″N 87°17′50″W / 30.34778°N 87.29722°W / 30.34778; -87.29722 (Capture of Pensacola (1719))