Invasion of Guadeloupe
Part of theWar of the First Coalition
Contemporary drawing of the capitulation of British troops in Guadeloupe
Date 11 April 1794 – 10 December 1794 Location Guadeloupe Result French victory
Belligerents
Great Britain	France
Commanders and leaders
Charles Grey John Jervis	Victor Collot Victor Hugues

Theinvasion of Guadeloupe was aBritish attempt in 1794 to take and hold the island ofGuadeloupe in theFrench West Indies during theFrench Revolutionary Wars. The British had negotiated with the Frenchplanters, Ignace-Joseph-Philippe de Perpignan and Louis de Curt, who wished to gainBritish protection, as France'sNational Convention was passinga law abolishing slavery on 4 February 1794. TheWhitehall Accord was signed on 19 February 1794 while the British were securingMartinique in theBattle of Martinique (1794).

Troops led by GeneralCharles Grey landed in Guadeloupe on 11 April 1794, assisted by a fleet led by AdmiralSir John Jervis. On 24 April French generalGeorges Henri Victor Collot surrendered the last stronghold atBasse-Terre, leaving the island in the hands of the British and their French Royalist allies. On 4 June a French fleet landed troops under the command ofVictor Hugues who, with the assistance ofFrench Republican locals, helped by the effect ofyellow fever and other tropical diseases on the British forces, regained full control of the island by 10 December 1794.^{[citation needed]}

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• Major-GeneralThomas Dundas (appointed governor of Guadeloupe, but died of yellow fever 3 June 1794)^{[citation needed]}

• Fortescue, Sir John William (1906).A History of the British Army. Vol. 4. Macmillan and Company. p. 365.

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