Capture of Pensacola (1719)

Capture of Pensacola
	Part of War of the Quadruple Alliance
	; Bay of Pensacola
Date	May 1719
Location	Pensacola
Result	Status quo ante bellum
Belligerents
French	Spanish
Commanders and leaders
	Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville

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.

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.

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[Bense14-1] Bense p.14

[2] Marley p.242

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