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Battle of San Domingo
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Battle of San Domingo
The
Battle of San Domingo
was a naval battle of the
Napoleonic Wars
fought on 6 February 1806 between squadrons of French and British
ships of the line
off the southern coast of the French-occupied Spanish colonial
Captaincy General of Santo Domingo
(
San Domingo
in contemporary British English) in the
Caribbean Sea
. The French squadron, under Vice-Admiral
Corentin Urbain Leissègues
in the 120-gun
Impérial
, had sailed from
Brest
in December 1805, one of two squadrons intending to raid British trade routes as part of the
Atlantic campaign of 1806
.
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