Battles of Acapulco
| 1st Battle of Acapulco | ||||||||
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| Part of the Second French intervention in Mexico | ||||||||
Entry of the French division in the Bay of Acapulco, January 10, 1863. | ||||||||
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| Belligerents | ||||||||
| Mexican Republicans | French Empire | United States | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | ||||||||
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Diego Álvarez Benítez Juan Álvarez Luis Ghilardi |
Captain Eugène Mathurin Marie Le Bris Durumain Rear Admiral Adolphe Charles Émile Bouët | John Augustus Sutter, Jr. | ||||||
| Units involved | ||||||||
| Southern Army | French naval division of the Pacific ocean | Pacific Squadron | ||||||
| Strength | ||||||||
| ~Dozen garrison |
4 men-o-wars 100 marines | Warship Saranac | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | ||||||||
| 12–13 dead | Possibly none | Possibly none | ||||||
| Americans remained neutral. According to the accounts Don Juan Sutter raised the American flag onto a boat and sailed to the French flagship Pallas across the cannon fire. He convinced Admiral Bouet to stop the shelling of civilian houses. | ||||||||
The Battle of Acapulco were a series of battles during the Second French intervention in Mexico. Acapulco was a key port of the Pacific trade routes and thus changed hands several times in the course of the Franco-Mexican War. In this period, the population of the city had decreased from 6000 to 2000.