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The Battle of Guadeloupe or the Action of 21-22 December 1779 was a naval engagement that took place off the French island of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean during the American War of Independence between three Royal Navy ships and three French Navy frigates.〔Clowes p 47〕 The Royal Navy under Joshua Rowley sighted and promptly chased, caught with all three subsequently captured after a brief fight.〔Naval Chronicle Vol. 21 p.179〕 On 21 December 1779, with the 74-gun ships of the line and , and the 64-gun under Rear-Admiral Joshua Rowley, fell in with the 32-gun French frigates ''Fortunée'' and ''Blanche'' and the 28-gun ''Elise'', off the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.〔 The French ships had belonged to the Comte d Estaing's fleet. The French ships were in bad order; their crews were excessively weak; and thus they could not escape the vastly superior British force.〔 The ''Blanche'' was overtaken and captured on the evening of the 21st; the ''Fortunée'', by throwing her quarter-deck guns overboard, kept away a little longer, but was captured at last in the early morning of 22 December, an hour before the ''Elise'' had struck.〔 The ''Blanche'' and ''Fortunée'' were thus added to the British navy.〔 Rowley also led his squadron to capture of a large French convoy, from Marseilles, off Martinique.〔 == References == ;Citations ;Bibliography * * * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Battle of Guadeloupe (1779)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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