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In February 1748 Rear-Admiral Charles Knowles left Port Royal, Jamaica, with eight ships of the line to make an attack on Santiago de Cuba. Delayed by contrary winds, he diverted his expedition to Port Louis in the south east of Hispaniola, now known as Haiti. The town sat at the head of a large, deep bay, with two islands, on one of which was a French fort. Knowles sailed his ships up the channel and passed them to the west and north of the fort, which surrendered after a sharp bombardment. The town’s surrender followed soon afterwards and Knowles, having taken possession of a small merchant vessel called a snow and three privateer sloops, burnt the fort and departed for Santiago de Cuba. The walls of the fort are shown in the centre of the picture with Knowles’s flagship, the ‘Canterbury’ placed slightly to the left, firing into it.
There is another version of this painting in the Royal Collection.
Title
The Capture of Port Louis, Cuba, 8 March 1748
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 86.5 x W 136 cm
Accession number
BHC0372
Work type
Painting
National Maritime Museum
Romney Road, Greenwich, London, Greater London SE10 9NF England
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