| Action of 29 July 1782 | |||||||
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| Part of the American Revolutionary War | |||||||
 The capture of the Amazone by HMS Santa Margarita, 29 July 1782 by Robert Dodd | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Great Britain |
 France | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
 Elliot Salter |
 Louis-Philippe de Vaudreuil Lieutenant Louis-Charles de Montguyot de Cambronne [1][2] † | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 1 heavy Frigate |
1 light frigate 13 ships | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 5 killed & 17 wounded[3] |
1 frigate captured but later abandoned | ||||||
The action of 29 July 1782 was a minor naval engagement that took place towards the end of the American War of Independence. The British Royal Navy frigate HMS Santa Margarita captured the 36-gun French frigate Amazone off Cape Henry, but the next day the squadron under Louis-Philippe de Vaudreuil intervened and recaptured the frigate.[5][6]
- ^ Lacour-Gayet (1910), p. 417.
- ^ Anonymous (1789), p. 92.
- ^ The European Magazine: And London Review, Volume 2. Philological Society of London. 1783. p. 314.
- ^ Clowes, William Laird; Markham, Clements Robert (1966). The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present, Volume 4. AMS Press. p. 83.
- ^ Barringer, Fordham & Quilley pp.149-50
- ^ Troude (1867), p. 203.