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Group: Delaware Bay, Lower Counties on the (English Colony)
People: Juan Fernández
Topic: Spanish American wars of independence
Location: Genoa > Genova Liguria Italy

The main force arrives off St. Eustatius …

Years: 1781 - 1781
February
The main force arrives off St. Eustatius on February 3.

Rodney's ships take up position to neutralize any shore batteries.

Two or three shots are fired from the only Dutch warship on the roadstead, the frigate Mars under Captain Count Van Bijland.

Instead of disembarking the troops and launching an immediate assault, Rodney sends a message to Governor Johannes de Graaff suggesting that he surrender to avoid bloodshed.

De Graaff agrees to the proposal and surrenders.

De Graaff has ten guns in Fort Orange and sixty soldiers.

Rodney has over a thousand guns on his ships.
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