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The Capture of the Bahamas took place in May 1782 during the American Revolutionary War when a Spanish force under the command of Juan Manuel Cagigal arrived on the island of New Providence near Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas.
In 1782, Spanish forces under General Galvez captured the Bahamas in 1782. A British-American Loyalist expedition led by Colonel Andrew Deveaux , recaptured the islands in 1783. After the American Revolution , the British issued land grants to American Loyalists who had gone into exile from the newly established United States.
The local pirates ruled a de facto 'Privateers' Republic' for several years; in 1717 the Bahamas became a British crown colony, and the pirates were driven out. During the American War of Independence, the Bahamas were briefly occupied by both American and Spanish forces. In 1964, the Bahamas achieved self-governance, and, in 1973, full ...
In 1782 he was among the British occupation garrison in Charleston. [1] In December of that year, the British evacuated South Carolina and Deveaux with his men went to St. Augustine, Florida capital of East Florida. He set about a plan to recapture The Bahamas for himself and the British Crown. Nassau had fallen to the Spanish earlier in the year.
The Bahamas had been taken by Spanish forces from the British in May 1782, also without a shot being fired. However Saint Augustine in East Florida was still in British hands, the Spanish thinking it too well defended to attack. A plan was devised to retake the Bahamas by launching an attack on Nassau.
On May 8, 1782, General Gálvez and his Spanish forces captured the British naval base at New Providence in the Bahamas during the American War of Independence. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] In 1782, during the American Revolutionary War , Montserrat was captured by France.
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