What the records say
- When
- 17 Aug 1796
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 33.03° S, 18.01° E
- Description
- 1796 Dutch to British naval surrender
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Capitulation of Saldanha Bay
1796 battle of the War of the First Coalition
The capitulation of Saldanha Bay was the surrender to the British of a Batavian expeditionary force sent to recapture the Dutch Cape Colony in 1796 as part of the East Indies theatre of the French Revolutionary Wars.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Durch die Kapitulation einer niederländischen Flotte in der Saldanhabucht (Südafrika) scheitert der Versuch der Batavischen Republik”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page