Battle of Baton Rouge (1779)

Battle of Baton Rouge
	Part of the Western Theater of the; American Revolutionary War
	; Detail from a 1776 map showing West Florida
Date	September 12–21, 1779
Location	Fort New Richmond, West Florida; (present-day Baton Rouge, Louisiana)30°27′00″N 91°08′00″W / 30.4500°N 91.1333°W
Result	Spanish victory
Belligerents
Spain	Great Britain Waldeck-Pyrmont;
Commanders and leaders
Col. Bernardo de Gálvez	Lieut. Col. Alexander Dickson
Strength
>1,400(pre-engagement) ~400 regulars, ~400 militia (engagement estimate)	400 regulars; 150 militia
Casualties and losses
9 killed; 39 wounded	4 killed; 2 wounded; 375 captured; 30 later died of wounds in captivity

The Battle of Baton Rouge was a brief siege during the Anglo-Spanish War that was decided on September 21, 1779. Fort New Richmond (present-day Baton Rouge, Louisiana) was the second British outpost to fall to Spanish arms during Bernardo de Gálvez's march into West Florida.