| 1st Battle of Acapulco | ||||||||
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| Part of the Second French intervention in Mexico | ||||||||
 Entry of the French division in the Bay of Acapulco, January 10, 1863. | ||||||||
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| Belligerents | ||||||||
 Mexican Republicans |
 French Empire |
 United States | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | ||||||||
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Diego Álvarez Benítez Juan Álvarez[1]: 54–55 Luis Ghilardi[2]: 125 |
Captain Eugène Mathurin Marie Le Bris Durumain[3]: 1060 [4]: 101 Rear Admiral Adolphe Charles Émile Bouët[4]: 101 [5] | John Augustus Sutter, Jr.[1]: 54–55 | ||||||
| Units involved | ||||||||
| Southern Army | French naval division of the Pacific ocean | Pacific Squadron | ||||||
| Strength | ||||||||
| ~Dozen garrison[6] |
4 men-o-wars 100 marines[6] | Warship Saranac[1]: 54–55 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | ||||||||
| 12–13 dead[6] | Possibly none | Possibly none | ||||||
| Americans remained neutral. According to the accounts Don Juan Sutter raised the American flag onto a boat and sailed to the French flagship Pallas across the cannon fire. He convinced Admiral Bouet to stop the shelling of civilian houses.[1]: 54–55 | ||||||||
The Battle of Acapulco were a series of battles during the Second French intervention in Mexico. Acapulco was a key port of the Pacific trade routes and thus changed hands several times in the course of the Franco-Mexican war. In this period the population of the city had decreased from 6000 to 2000.[7]
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- ^ Hubert Howe Bancroft; William Nemos; Thomas Savage; Joseph Joshua Peatfield (1888). History of Mexico Vol VI. (1861–1887). San Francisco: The History company. ISBN 9781147416466. Retrieved June 11, 2012.
- ^ Ministère de la marine et des colonies (1841). Annales maritimes et coloniales [Maritime and colonial history] (in French). Vol. 76. Paris, France: Imprimerie Royale. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
- ^ a b Papers relative to Mexican affairs : Communicated to the Senate June 16, 1864. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. 1865. ISBN 9781425556730. Retrieved June 27, 2012.
- ^ "Recent Deaths". Boston Evening Transcript. Vol. LX, no. 18339. April 20, 1887. p. 1. Retrieved June 27, 2012.
- ^ a b c "Mexico" (png). Wellington Independent. Vol. XVIII, no. 1869. May 16, 1863. p. 5. Retrieved June 26, 2012 – via Papers Past.
- ^ "The heat – a storm – Acapulco" (pdf). The Daily Alta California. Vol. 16, no. 5303. September 9, 1864. Retrieved June 27, 2012 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.[failed verification]