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The Battle of Havana was a naval engagement that took place between the British Caribbean squadron and a Spanish squadron based near Havana during the War of Jenkins' Ear. [4] The battle occurred on the morning of the 12th and ended on 14 October 1748.
Battle of Havana may refer to: Battle of Havana (1748) , a naval engagement between the Great Britain and Spain during the War of Jenkins' Ear, resulting in a tactical British victory Siege of Havana (1762), a British expedition to capture Havana during the Seven Years' War, resulting in a decisive British victory
Map of Havana, 1739 Plan of Havana, 1758 Map of Havana, 1762 Detail of the plan of the city, port and castles of San Christobal de La Habana-1776. 1748 – Battle of Havana. 1762 – Battle of Havana; British in power. [8] 1763 – 6 July: Spanish in power per Treaty of Paris (1763). [9] 1767 – Castillo de Atarés built. [3] 1768 Hurricane. [1]
The Spanish forces opposing them had 11,670 men, 10 ships of the line, 2 frigates, 2 sloops and hundreds of cannons mounted on Havana's extensive fortifications. 10,000 soldiers disembarked under the command of George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle and captured the heights, which the governor of Cuba, Juan de Prado had left undefended.
By August, Havana's defenders faced a shortage of manpower and ammunition needed to prolong the siege. Don Juan de Prado, the captain-general of Cuba, surrendered Havana to the British on 13 August, beginning an 11-month occupation. Havana, along with Manila, was returned at the end of the war in 1763, with the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
During the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), the exploits of the British fleet in battles such as the Siege of Havana, in 1762, where the British inflicted significant damage on the Spanish Navy, and the Battle of Chandernagar, led to an increase of popularity of naval paintings depicting these battles, and Serres' work on that matter met British ...
The Battle of Havana on 9 November 1870 was an indecisive single ship action between the German gunboat Meteor and the French aviso Bouvet off the coast of Havana, Cuba during the Franco-Prussian War. The battle was the only naval engagement of the war, and showed the inability of either navy to gain a decisive advantage over the other.