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 | ||||||||
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Commanders and leaders | ||||||||
Diego Álvarez Benítez Juan Álvarez[1]: 54–55 Luis Ghilardi[2]: 125 |
Captain Eugène Mathurin Marie Le Bris Durumain[3]: 1060 [4]: 101 Rear Admiral Adolphe Charles Émile Bouët[4]: 101 [5] | John Augustus Sutter, Jr.[1]: 54–55 | ||||||
Units involved | ||||||||
Southern Army | French naval division of the Pacific ocean | Pacific Squadron | ||||||
Strength | ||||||||
~dozen garrison[6] |
4 men-o-wars 100 marines[6] | Warship Saranac[1]: 54–55 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | ||||||||
12–13 dead[6] | 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.[1]: 54–55 |
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.[7]