Battle of Moca (1779)

Battle of Moca (1779)
	Part of American Revolutionary War
	; View of Mocha, 1690
Date	8 June 1779
Location	Off Mokha, Yemen, Red Sea
Result	Portuguese victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Portugal	Kingdom of Great Britain
Commanders and leaders
João Manuel de Azevedo e Brito	Captain Owart
Strength
1 corvette, 2 forward guns, 2 aft guns	1 corvette
Casualties and losses
1 killed	14 killed; 10 seriously wounded

The Battle of Moca (1779) was a naval action on 8 June 1779 between the Portuguese corvette Nossa Senhora das Angústias e Almas, commanded by João Manuel de Azevedo e Brito, and the British corvette Morning Star, commanded by Captain Owart, off the port of Mokha, Yemen, in the Red Sea. The Portuguese ship was escorting the French ambassador M. de S. Lubin to Suez and resisted British attempts to seize him.^[1]^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Eduardo Augusto de Sá Nogueira Pinto de Balsemão (1882). Os Portuguezes no Oriente: 1700 a 1882 (in Portuguese). Imprensa Nacional. pp. 271–275.
^ Saturnino Monteiro, Armando da Silva (1996). Batalhas e Combates da Marinha Portuguesa – VII (1669-1807) (PDF) (in Portuguese). Lisbon: Livraria Sá da Costa. pp. 203–207.

[:1-1] Eduardo Augusto de Sá Nogueira Pinto de Balsemão (1882). Os Portuguezes no Oriente: 1700 a 1882 (in Portuguese). Imprensa Nacional. pp. 271–275.

[2] Saturnino Monteiro, Armando da Silva (1996). Batalhas e Combates da Marinha Portuguesa – VII (1669-1807) (PDF) (in Portuguese). Lisbon: Livraria Sá da Costa. pp. 203–207.

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