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  • 1810-07-09 (xsd:date)
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  • 22 killed, 79 wounded
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  • 22px French Empire
  • 22px United Kingdom
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  • British victory
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  • 3,650 British Army soldiers, 5 Royal Navy frigates in support
  • 576 French Army soldiers, 2,717 militia
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  • 22 killed, 79 wounded
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  • 22px United Kingdom
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  • 1810-07-09 (xsd:date)
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  • British victory
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  • 3,650 British Army soldiers, 5 Royal Navy frigates in support
  • 576 French Army soldiers, 2,717 militia
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  • v • d • eMauritius campaignof 1809–181131 May 1809 – Saint Paul – 18 November 1809 – 3 July 1810 – Île Bonaparte – Grand Port – 13 September 1810 – 18 September 1810 – Île de France – Tamatave The Invasion of Île Bonaparte was an amphibious operation in 1810 that formed an important part of the British campaign to blockade and capture the French Indian Ocean territories of Île Bonaparte and Île de France during the Napoleonic Wars. These islands formed a fortified base for a French frigate squadron under Commodore Jacques Hamelin to raid British convoys of East Indiamen travelling between Britain and British India. Hamelin's ships had destroyed two convoys the previous year despite the attention of a squadron of Royal Navy ships under Commodore Josias Rowley. Rowley had responded by raiding the fortified anchorage of Saint Paul on Île Bonaparte and capturing one of Hamelin's frigates and two captured East Indiamen. The raid had an unforeseen consequence, when the commander of Île Bonaparte General Nicolas Des Bruslys, committed suicide rather than lead the garrison against the British landing parties. This encouraged Rowley to consider a larger operation to seize the whole island. Using the small British-held island of Rodriguez as a base, Rowley and his British Army counterpart Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Keating planned to land two forces either side of the island's capital Saint Denis and force the governor to capitulate before the island's militia could be mobilised against them. The plan was launched on 7 July 1810 as two combined forces of British sailors, soldiers, sepoys and Royal Marines landed at separate beaches. Although a number of men were drowned in the heavy surf, the majority of the invasion force reached the beaches safely and marched inland, attacking French outposts as they approached the capital. Recognising that his demoralised garrison would be unable to defend Saint Denis and that the militia would take too long to mobilise, the French commander Colonel Chrysostôme de Sainte-Suzanne surrendered the island, its garrison and its stores to Rowley.
  • La prise de l'île Bonaparte est une bataille qui vit la capture de l'île française du sud-ouest de l'océan Indien aujourd'hui appelée La Réunion par une force d'invasion britannique pendant les guerres napoléoniennes. Préparée lors de l'attaque de Saint-Paul quelques mois plus tôt, l'opération, qui eut lieu en juillet 1810, précéda de quelques semaines la capture de l'île de France voisine et l'établissement d'une mainmise durable des Britanniques sur la route des Indes.
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  • Île Bonaparte. The invasion forces landed either side of the capital Saint Denis.
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  • 22 killed, 79 wounded
  • Casualties unknown. The island, entire garrison and large quantities of military equipment captured.
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  • Invasion of Île Bonaparte
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  • 7 - 9 July 1810
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  • British victory
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  • 576 (xsd:integer)
  • 3650 (xsd:integer)
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  • La prise de l'île Bonaparte est une bataille qui vit la capture de l'île française du sud-ouest de l'océan Indien aujourd'hui appelée La Réunion par une force d'invasion britannique pendant les guerres napoléoniennes. Préparée lors de l'attaque de Saint-Paul quelques mois plus tôt, l'opération, qui eut lieu en juillet 1810, précéda de quelques semaines la capture de l'île de France voisine et l'établissement d'une mainmise durable des Britanniques sur la route des Indes.
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  • Invasion of Île Bonaparte
  • Prise de l'île Bonaparte
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