After a small naval engagement where the running aground of the leading revolutionary vessel gave the royalists a small victory, but suffering numerous casualties, the United Provinces troops took the island by assault forcing Romarate's squadron to retreat.
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| - Battle of Martín García (1814)
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| - After a small naval engagement where the running aground of the leading revolutionary vessel gave the royalists a small victory, but suffering numerous casualties, the United Provinces troops took the island by assault forcing Romarate's squadron to retreat.
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- [39 cannons ] 430 troops.
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| - if they return I think they have been chastised to not again insult the national forces.
- If Your Excellency has expulsed from that port as I believe, Mercurio, Paloma, Hiena and Cisne, and they are near the islands of Hornos or Valizas, they are lost to the forces of Buenos Aires, and if not, their absence would be very painful in this critical situation.
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| - Sketchs of Hercules, by Sidders and Biggeri .
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| - Romarate's Notes
- de Azcuénaga in Romarate's Notes
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Casualties
| - one damaged vessel, 23 dead, 35 wounded
- one captured minor vessel, 10 dead, 47 prisoners, 17 wounded
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Place
| - Martín García island, Río de la Plata
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| - Carranza - cited work - page 228
- Carranza.
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| - After a small naval engagement where the running aground of the leading revolutionary vessel gave the royalists a small victory, but suffering numerous casualties, the United Provinces troops took the island by assault forcing Romarate's squadron to retreat. Brown's victory divided the enemy's forces, and secured the United Provinces' control of access to the interior waterways, and made possible their advance on Montevideo. After the decisive victory at the Buceo engagement, they could also blockade the city to the open sea completing the land blockade by the army, causing the city's surrender.
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