Invasion of Jersey | |||||||
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Part of the American Revolutionary War | |||||||
Major Moses Corbet, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey, Phillippe Jean | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Great Britain | France | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Moses Corbet Mariot Arbuthnot |
Karl von Siegen Phillipe Rullecourt | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
78th Regiment Jersey Militia | Several warships | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Unknown wounded |
15–18 drowned 20 captured |
The Invasion of Jersey was a failed French attack on British-held Jersey in 1779, during the American Revolutionary War.