Capture of Río Hondo

Capture of Hondo River
Part of the American Revolutionary War
Date 1779 Location Hondo River, Belize Result British victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Spain	Kingdom of Great Britain

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American
Revolutionary War:
West Indies

• 1st Nassau
• Barbados
• Dominica
• 1st St. Lucia
• 2nd St. Lucia
• Saint Vincent
• 1st Grenada
• 2nd Grenada
• Río Hondo
• Cayo Cocina
• San Fernando
• 12 December 1779
• 1st Martinique
• Guadeloupe
• 2nd Martinique
• Fort San Juan
• Dutch West Indies
• 1st Demerara & Essequibo
• Sint Eustatius
• Fort Royal
• Tobago
• 15 January 1782
• Brimstone Hill
• Frigate Bay
• 2nd Demerara & Essequibo
• Montserrat
• Roatán
• The Saintes
• Mona Passage
• Black River
• 2nd Nassau
• 18 October 1782
• 6 December 1782
• 2 January 1783
• 15 February 1783
• 17 February 1783
• Turks and Caicos
• 3rd Nassau

The Hondo River was a settlement owned by the Kingdom of Great Britain since the early 18th century. In 1779, the Spanish repeatedly attacked the British settlements in British Honduras. The Hondo River was targeted, but the British were never driven out. However, they abandoned their colony until 1783.

References

• Belize History

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