Capture of Sint Eustatius

When

Feb 1781

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

17.48° N, 62.98° W

Description

1781 battle

Part of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1781)

The British Capture of Saint Eustatius took place in February 1781 during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War when British Army and naval forces under Lieutenant-General Sir John Vaughan and Admiral George Rodney seized the Dutch-owned Caribbean island of Sint Eustatius.

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