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| Invasion of Guadeloupe | |||||||||
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| Part of the Seven Years' War | |||||||||
&sq=&lang=&file=File:The_taking_of_Fort_Louis,_Guadaloupe.jpg) The taking of Fort Louis, Guadeloupe, James Grant | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Great Britain |
 France | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Peregrine Hopson John Barrington |
 Maximin de Bompart | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 6,000 | Unknown | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| Unknown | Unknown | ||||||||
The British expedition against Guadeloupe was a military action from January to May 1759, as part of the Seven Years' War. A large British force had arrived in the West Indies, intending to seize French possessions. After a six-month-long battle to capture Guadeloupe they finally received the formal surrender of the island, just days before a large French relief force arrived under Admiral Maximin de Bompart.
Though the island was eventually ceded back to the French, the capture of the island contributed to the Annus Mirabilis of 1759.