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Damage on both sides was heavy, though the French suffered higher casualties. However, Hood was unable to stop the French and could only observe the land action. After the successful French siege of Brimstone Hill fortress, St Kitts and Nevis surrendered on 12 February.
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The British fleet on 24 January consisted of 22 sail of the line, and was close off the southeast end of Nevis. They ran into and captured the French 16-gun cutter
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the British fortress on Brimstone Hill on 11 January 1782. Hoping to salvage the situation, Hood made for St Kitts by departing
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At daybreak on 25 January, the French fleet was discovered having stood to the southward of
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Hood left on the 14th and joined forces with the recently arrived Admiral George Rodney.
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Hood arrived and repulsed de Grasse with victory at sea off Basseterre
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Repulse of the French in Frigate Bay, St Kitts, 26 January 1782
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When Hood returned to the West Indies in late 1781 after the
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with 7,000 troops and 50 warships, including the 110-gun
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Hood's anchored fleet repels de Grasse off St Kitts.
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Index

Battle of St. Kitts
Anglo-Spanish War
Battle of St. Kitts (1629)
American Revolutionary War

Nicholas Pocock
Basseterre
Caribbean Sea
17°09′N 62°35′W / 17.150°N 62.583°W / 17.150; -62.583
Great Britain
France
Sir Samuel Hood
Comte de Grasse
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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
RĂ­o Hondo
Cayo Cocina
San Fernando
12 December 1779

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