port au prince is located on the gulf of gonâve in haiti.
port au prince is located on the gulf of gonâve in haiti.
where is port au prince located in haiti?
on the gulf of gonâve
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on 4 october "lucy" and "port au prince" gave chase to a vessel that "lucy" captured. the vessel was a tender to the spanish frigate "astraea", then awaiting her at paita. two days later, "port-au-prince" and "lucy" challenged "astrea" to come out of the port of paita and engage them. "astraea", of 44 guns, was under the command of a frenchman, m. de vaudrieul. in addition to her crew, "astrea" had several hundred soldiers aboard. an inconclusive engagement followed in which "port au prince" lost a boy killed and had several men wounded, including duck, before "astraea" broke off the fight and returned to paita. some time later "port au prince" encountered the american vessel "neutrality" and heard from her captain that "astraea" had suffered 30 men killed, 120 men wounded, and damage to her fore-topmast. supposedly, vaudreuil had stated that at the end of the combat on the first day his spanish officers had urged him to strike, and that he would have done so, had the two british vessels boarded him. however, mariner reported that "astraea" had on board several deserters from "port au prince" and that they had told vaudreuil that "port au prince" was short of shot and men. "lucy" had six men wounded, of whom five recovered. she also had one man killed, a spanish prisoner, the captain of a felucca she had captured some time earlier.
port au prince (1790 ship)