Qualla: Battle of the Mona Passage https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-mona-passage en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/7/r/9/battle-of-the-mona-passage-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of the Mona Passage https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-mona-passage Battle of the Mona Passage: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-mona-passage/ Photo credit Serres, Dominic (artist); Skelton, W (engraver); Fittler, Jame (publisher), Public domain. The French ships were already broken when Samuel Hood found them. A week earlier, at the Battle of the Saintes, Admiral Rodney's fleet had smashed the Comte de Grasse's invasion force and ended France's plan to take Jamaica. Most of the French navy scattered or surrendered. But a handful of damaged vessels under Captain Georges-Francois de Framond limped through the Mona Passage -- the eighty-mile strait separating Hispaniola from Puerto Rico -- hoping to reach the safety of Cap-Francais before the British noticed they were gone. Hood noticed.

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/7/r/9/battle-of-the-mona-passage-wp/d7r9-battle-of-the-mona-passage-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of the Mona Passage: The Saintes and Its Aftermath https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-mona-passage/ Photo credit Serres, Dominic (artist); Skelton, W (engraver); Fittler, Jame (publisher), Public domain. Between April 9 and April 12, 1782, one of the decisive naval engagements of the American Revolutionary War unfolded near a cluster of small islands between Guadeloupe and Dominica known as Les Saintes. Admiral George Brydges Rodney commanded the British fleet; the Comte de Grass...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/7/r/9/battle-of-the-mona-passage-wp/d7r9-battle-of-the-mona-passage-the-saintes-and-its-aftermath.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of the Mona Passage: Copper Against Canvas https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-mona-passage/ Photo credit Serres, Dominic (artist); Skelton, W (engraver); Fittler, Jame (publisher), Public domain. Hood's squadron sailed toward Saint-Domingue and found the French in the Mona Passage. Framond commanded a small, battered flotilla: two 64-gun ships of the line -- his own vessel and the Jason -- along with a pair of frigates and a smaller ship. The Caton had taken damage at the...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/7/r/9/battle-of-the-mona-passage-wp/d7r9-battle-of-the-mona-passage-copper-against-canvas.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of the Mona Passage: Four Ships Taken https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-mona-passage/ Photo credit Serres, Dominic (artist); Skelton, W (engraver); Fittler, Jame (publisher), Public domain. The engagement on April 19 was brief and lopsided. Hood's warships overtook the French and forced them to fight on unfavorable terms. The Jason and the Caton, both 64-gun ships of the line, were captured together at the cost of four British sailors killed and six wounded. One of ...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/7/r/9/battle-of-the-mona-passage-wp/d7r9-battle-of-the-mona-passage-four-ships-taken.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of the Mona Passage: Captured Hulls, Long Afterlives https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-mona-passage/ Photo credit Serres, Dominic (artist); Skelton, W (engraver); Fittler, Jame (publisher), Public domain. Hood rendezvoused with Rodney at Port Royal, Jamaica, on April 29. The combined fleet needed nine weeks of repair before it could sail again -- a measure of how badly both sides had been mauled at the Saintes. The captured French ships found second lives under British colors. Th...

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