French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars - Theatre of war in the overseas colonies
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The theatre of war in the overseas colonies during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Chronology
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January 1802: British forces left the Maluku Islands in 1801.
January 1802: Britain occupied the Danish West Indies in 1801-02.
January 1802: Establishment of French Guyana.
December 1802: On 31 Dec 1802, Dharampur State, under the rule of Raja Rajendra Singh, became a British protectorate. This decision was made as part of the Treaty of Bassein between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire.
January 1803: Curaçao was occupied by the British from 13 September 1800 to 13 January 1803.
January 1804: British occupation of Saint Lucia.
January 1804: Birtish reconquest of the Demerara territories.
April 1809: During the Napoleonic Wars, Admiral Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane led the British armada to reconquer the Iles des Saintes from French control on 14 April 1809. This strategic victory helped secure British dominance in the Caribbean region.
February 1810: In 1810, the British captured the island of Guadeloupe again.
February 1810: 22 Feb 1810 - 22 Feb 1816: British occupation of Saba.
August 1810: In 1810, British forces led by Admiral Robert Stopford occupied the Maluku Islands, also known as the Spice Islands, as part of the Napoleonic Wars. This military occupation was part of the British strategy to control key trading ports in the Dutch East Indies.
January 1815: The British leave northern Saint Martin.
February 1816: 22 Feb 1810 - 22 Feb 1816: British occupation of Saba.
November 1816: After the British occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, the French Saint-Martin administration resumed control of the territory in 1816.
December 1816: Pondichéry and Chandernagore restored to France.
February 1805: Aruba was occupied by the British from 12 February 1805 to 20 November 1805.
February 1805: On 25 February 1805, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the leader of the First Empire of Haiti, led 30,000 troops to capture Santiago, a city in present-day Dominican Republic.
March 1805: Three frigates and two French brigantines arrived in Santo Domingo. Dessalines abandoned the siege of Santo Domingo and retreated to Haiti.
January 1797: Eseequibo annexed by the British.
April 1817: Yanaon was given back to the French on 12 Apr 1817.
January 1797: British forces captured the Maluku Islands in 1796.
October 1803: In September 1803 the British occupied Berbice again, this time for good.
February 1810: 21 February 1810 - 1 February 1816: British occupation of Sint Estatius.
May 1815: End of British occupation of Bonaire.
June 1793: Karikal conquered by great britain.
July 1793: Yanaon (Yanam) conquered by great britain.
July 1793: Mahé, a French colony, was occupied by British forces on 16 July 1793.
August 1793: In 1793, Pondichéry was occupied by the British military. This event was part of the larger conflict between Great Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars. Pondichéry was a French colonial territory in India, and its capture by the British was a significant blow to French influence in the region.
August 1814: On 13 August 1814, the British combined the colonies of Demerara and Essequibo into the colony of Demerara-Essequibo.
August 1814: The Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 restored Bengal to Dutch rule.
January 1796: British occupation of Malacca during the Napoleonic Wars (1795-1818).
January 1797: The British forces, led by Sir Ralph Abercromby and Lieutenant Colonel Alured Clarke, recaptured the territories of Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice from the Dutch in 1796 during the French Revolutionary Wars. This military occupation solidified British control over the region.
April 1816: 5 Jun 1815 - 28 Apr 1816: British occupation of Martinique.
August 1816: 18 September 1811 - 19 August 1816: the Dutch Dejima Factory was occupied by the British.
August 1814: Essequibo became official British territory on 13 August 1814 as part of the Treaty of London and was merged with the colony of Demerara.
January 1797: In 1796, the British colony of Saint Peter (located in present-day Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada) was sacked by French troops during the French Revolutionary Wars. This event was part of the military occupation of the territory by France.
June 1793: Chandernagore was a French colony in India. In 1793, during the French Revolutionary Wars, the British East India Company captured the territory.
February 1809: 24 Feb 1809 - 9 Dec 1814: British occupation of Martinique.
February 1796: In the period 1788 - 1795 there was no cordiality between the Dutch and the British. The British had planned after their conquest of India to take over a dozen Dutch possessions in the region, with Ceylon as the biggest prize. Their chance came when in the winter of 1794/95 Holland was overrun by the French army. On 14 February 1796, the Dutch forces surrendered with minimal bloodshed.
September 1800: Curaçao was occupied by the British from 13 September 1800 to 13 January 1803.
January 1804: During the Napoleonic Wars, Great Britain captured Gorée in 1803.
January 1802: During the French occupation of the Netherlands between 1810 and 1814, the Dutch possessions on the Gold Coast held the rather unusual position—together with the island of Deshima in Japan—of being the only Dutch territories not occupied by either France or Great Britain.
November 1802: 21 April 1801 - 21 November 1802: British occupation of Sint Estatius.
December 1802: Great Britain leaves the Island of Saint Martin where the French (northern part of the Island) and the Dutch (southern part of the Island) resume control.
March 1803: 20 Mar 1803 - 22 Jun 1816: British occupation of Saint Pierre and Miquelon.
December 1807: British occupation of the Saint Croix island.
January 1809: The Royal Navy took possession of Marie-Galante to stop French privateers using its port.
January 1809: Portuguese conquest of French Guiana.
February 1810: The British occupy the entire island of Saint Martin.
January 1808: 1807-1815: British occupation of the Danish West Indies during the Napoleonic Wars.
May 1814: Under the Treaty of Paris Article VIII France ceded to Britain the islands of "Tobago and Saint Lucia, and of the Isle of France and its dependencies, especially Rodrigues and Les Seychelles.
May 1814: The Treaty of Paris ceded Tobago to the British in 1814.
January 1803: In 1802, Puerto Rico was reconquered by the Spanish, led by Governor Toribio Montes. This marked the return of the territory to Spanish America after a brief period of British occupation.
January 1795: British conquest of the island of Marie-Galante.
November 1815: Danish reconquest of the Saint Croix island.
February 1816: 21 February 1810 - 1 February 1816: British occupation of Sint Estatius.
November 1817: After Napoleon's abdication in 1814, it was decided to return French Guyana to French control, but it was only on 8 November 1817, when a French expedition arrived with Cayenne's new governor, Claude Carra Saint-Cyr, that the French took formal possession of the territory.
July 1795: British troops occupied Dutch Coromandel to prevent it from being overrun by the French. Dutch governor Jacob Eilbracht capitulated to the British on 15 July 1795.
April 1797: Sir Ralph Abercromby was a British Army officer who led the invasion of Puerto Rico in 1797. The military occupation by Great Britain lasted only a few months before the island was returned to Spanish control as part of the Treaty of Amiens in 1802.
February 1797: In 1796, French troops led by General Victor Hugues sacked the British colony of Saint Peter in present-day Guyana. This event marked a significant moment in the conflict between France and Great Britain during the late 18th century.
July 1816: After being occupied by the British during the Napoleonic Wars, the Iles des Saintes were returned to French control on 22 July 1816.
January 1808: For more than a century, the succession of Cirebon lineages was conducted without any significant problems. However, by the end Sultan Anom IV reign (1798-1803), Keraton Kanoman faces succession disputes. One of the prince, Pangeran Raja Kanoman, demand his share of throne and separate the kingdom by forming his own, Kesultanan Kacirebonan.
January 1816: In 1816, the southern part of Saint Martin was returned to the Dutch.
June 1816: The Treaty of Paris (1814) gave the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon back to France.
January 1807: Curaçao was occupied by the British from 1 January 1807 to 4 March 1816.
March 1801: In 1801, the island of Saint Martin in France was occupied by the British from March 24.
March 1801: 20 March 1801 - 10 July 1802: British occupation of Saint Barthélemy.
April 1801: 21 April 1801 - 21 November 1802: British occupation of Sint Estatius.
February 1803: 16 April 1801 - January 1803: British occupation of Saba.
November 1805: Aruba was occupied by the British from 12 February 1805 to 20 November 1805.
March 1813: In 1810, the British captured Guadeloupe from France during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1813, the island was handed over to Sweden under the Treaty of Stockholm, marking a shift in colonial control in the Caribbean.
December 1814: 24 Feb 1809 - 9 Dec 1814: British occupation of Martinique.
June 1815: 5 Jun 1815 - 28 Apr 1816: British occupation of Martinique.
July 1815: After Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, the French-controlled Les Saintes islands were annexed by Great Britain on 6 July 1815.
August 1815: The British re-occupied the French part of Saint Martin in the Caribbean.
January 1816: 1807-1815: British occupation of the Danish West Indies during the Napoleonic Wars.
March 1816: End of British occupation of Aruba.
July 1802: 20 March 1801 - 10 July 1802: British occupation of Saint Barthélemy.
September 1811: 18 September 1811 - 19 August 1816: the Dutch Dejima Factory was occupied by the British.
January 1797: The British expelled the Dutch from Ceylon in 1796 and included Maldives as a British protected area.
January 1803: Britain occupied the Danish West Indies in 1801-02.
April 1801: 16 April 1801 - January 1803: British occupation of Saba.
January 1817: Karikal was a French colonial territory in India. The territory was restored to French control on January 14, 1817, after being temporarily occupied by the British during the Napoleonic Wars.
May 1793: In 1793 the British landed in Saint-Pierre and, the following year, again expelled the French.
May 1793: Dutch control over the entire island of Saint Martin.
January 1794: The name of Île Bourbon was changed into Île de la Réunion in 1793 by a decree of the Convention Nationale (the elected revolutionary constituent assembly) with the fall of the House of Bourbon in France.
May 1794: The British frigate "Orpheus" commanded by Captain Henry Newcome arrived at Mahé on 16 May 1794, during the War of the First Coalition. Terms of capitulation were drawn up and the next day Seychelles was surrendered to Britain.
July 1795: British occupation of Dutch Bengal.
January 1796: As a result of the Kew Letters, Dutch settlements on the Malabar Coast were surrendered to the British in 1795, in order to prevent them from being overrun by the French.
October 1797: French Guyana is organized as a département of France.
January 1804: The British again occupied Essequibo during the Napoleonic Wars.
January 1807: French conquest of El Kala in 1806.
March 1816: Curaçao was occupied by the British from 1 January 1807 to 4 March 1816.
January 1811: Britain assumed full control of the Seychelles including Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches upon the surrender of Mauritius in 1810.
October 1815: Organised settlement of Ascension Island began in 1815, when the British garrisoned it as a precaution after imprisoning Napoleon on Saint Helena to the southeast. On 22 October the Cruizer-class brig-sloops Zenobia and Peruvian claimed the island for King George III.
January 1816: Ile Bourbon was restored to France by the Congress of Vienna in 1815.
January 1816: The British returned Marie-Galante Island to France.
August 1816: The formal annexation of the Islands of Refreshment was made on August 14, 1816, partly as a measure to ensure the French could not use the islands as a base for a rescue operation to free the deposed Napoleon I of France from his prison on Saint Helena.
Was a French-Spanish military expedition to occupy Newfoundland during the Anglo-Spanish War (1796-1808).
Restoration of French rule in French India according to the Treaty of Amiens.
