Battle of Camarón

When

30 Apr 1863

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

19.02° N, 96.62° W

Description

1863 battle

Last-stand battle during the second French intervention in Mexico

The Battle of Camarón was a last stand engagement fought on 30 April 1863 between the French Foreign Legion and the Mexican Army, during the Second French intervention in Mexico (1861–1867). A small French detachment of 65 men, led by Captain Jean Danjou, was escorting a supply convoy when it was surrounded near the village of Camarón de Tejeda in Veracruz by a force of around 2,000 Mexican troops.

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• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of Camarón in Mexico: 65 soldiers of the French Foreign Legion fight 2,000 Mexicans”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Im Gefecht von Camerone bei Camarón de Tejeda vernichtet eine 2.000 Mann starke Übermacht mexikanischer Truppen unter Francisco de Paula Milán eine aus 65 Mann…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “bataille de Camerone, fait d’armes de la Légion étrangère française”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Camarón de Tejeda (México) ―en el marco de la segunda invasión francesa―”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• Franco-Mexican16 Apr 1862 · Interstate war · Deaths 20,000