Siege of Calvi
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The <entity_1> was a combined British and Corsican military operation during the Invasion of <entity_2> in the early stages of the <entity_0>. The British force, now led by General Charles Stuart, then turned their attention to the fortress of <entity_4>, the only remaining French-held fortress in <entity_2>. With the conclusion of the <entity_5> <entity_2> of <entity_2> now became a British colony, and remained a British base of operations for two years. A deal was negotiated by which in exchange for British military support against the French-held towns of San Fiorenzo, Bastia and <entity_4>, <entity_2> would become a self-governing part of the British Empire, providing Hood with a base of operations against the French coast. The French garrison on <entity_2>, comprising some 6,000 French troops and Corsican militia was led by the pro-revolutionary Corsican Raphaël de Casabianca, based in <entity_4>. Hood and Stuart agreed that they would not permit <entity_4> to hold beyond <entity_3>, but on the evening of 28 July four small vessels carrying supplies slipped through the meagre British blockade, to cheers from the defenders. On <entity_3>, after 51 days of <entity_5>, Casabianca capitulated as arranged, his men marching from the town and laying their arms down before the commander signed terms with Stuart that guaranteed his repatriation to France with his surviving garrison. British battle casualties were 30 killed and 58 wounded, but the end of the <entity_5> was an urgent necessity for Stuart as the summer heat was severely affecting his troops, which were severely reduced in number by malaria and dysentery which had swept though the camp so virulently that just 400 men were still fit for duty at the surrender of <entity_4>. After the fall of <entity_4>, Paoli's deputy Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo was appointed president of <entity_2>, with Stuart as one of his councilors, but within a few weeks of the fall of <entity_4> Paoli and Elliott had fallen out over the former's ruthless pursuit of Corsicans who had collaborated with the French.
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