Battle of Suriname

Date	5 May 1804
Location	Suriname colony
Result	British occupation of Suriname.

Belligerents

Batavian Republic
Supported by:

France

United Kingdom

Commanders and leaders

Van Imbyze van Batenburg

Sir Samuel Hood
Sir Charles Green

Strength

Unknown

2,000+ soldiers

Dutch colonial campaigns

The Battle of Suriname or Battle of Surinam was a battle between the Netherlands and the United Kingdom for the control of the Suriname colony. The colony, which was held by a Dutch garrison, was captured on May 5, 1804 by a British squadron under the command of Sir Samuel Hood, together with troops under Sir Charles Green.

References

George Bruce. Harbottle's Dictionary of Battles. (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981) (ISBN 0442223366).

Colonial conflicts involving the English/British Empire

17th century	Virginia (1609–46) Swally (1612) Ormuz (1622) Saint Kitts (1626) Quebec (1628) Pequot War (1634–38) Acadia (1654–67) Anglo-Spanish War (1654–60) Jamaica (1655–1739) King Philip's War (1675–78) King William's War (1688–97) Ghana (1694–1700)

18th century	Queen Anne's War (1702–13) Tuscarora War (1711–15) Yamasee War (1715–17) Father Rale's War/Dummer's War (1722–25) War of Jenkins' Ear (1740–42) King George's War (1744–48) Carnatic Wars (1746–63) Nova Scotia (1749–55) French and Indian War (1754–63) Seven Years' War (1756–63) Anglo–Cherokee War (1758–61) Jamaica (1762) Anglo-Spanish War (1762–63) Pontiac's War (1763–66) Lord Dunmore's War (1774) American Revolutionary War (1775–83) First Anglo–Maratha War (1775–82) Second Anglo–Mysore War (1779–84) Gold Coast (1781–82) Sumatra (1782–84) Australian Frontier Wars (1788–1934) Nootka Sound (1789) Third Anglo–Mysore War (1789–92) Cotiote (Wayanad) War (1793-1806) Cape Colony (1795) Jamaica (1795–96) Ceylon (1795) Kandyan Wars (1796–1818) Malta (1798–1800) Fourth Anglo–Mysore War (1798–99) Dwyer's Guerrilla Campaign (1799–1803)

19th century	Newfoundland (1800) Castle Hill convict rebellion Second Anglo–Maratha War (1803–05) Suriname (1804) Guiana (1804) Cape Colony (1806) Río de la Plata (1806–07) Egypt (1807) Malta (1807) Reunion (1809) Seychelles (1809) Mauritius (1810) Java (1810–11) Xhosa Wars (1811–79) Martinique (1809) Guadeloupe (1810) Nepal (1814–16) Guadeloupe (1815) Cape Colony (1815) Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817–18) Guiana (1823) Anglo-Ashanti wars (1824–1901) First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–26) Black War (Van Diemen's Land, 1828–32) Jamaica (1831–32) Malacca (1831-33) Lower Canada (1837–38) Upper Canada (1837–38) Egyptian–Ottoman War (1839–41) First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–42) First Opium War (1839–42) New Zealand Wars (1845–72) First Anglo–Sikh War (1845–46) Río de la Plata (1845–50) Ceylon (1848) Second Anglo–Sikh War (1848–49) Second Anglo–Burmese War (1852) Eureka Rebellion (1852) Anglo–Persian War (1856–57) Second Opium War (1856–60) Indian Rebellion (1857–58) Ambela Campaign (1863–64) Bhutan War (1864–65) Fenian Rebellion in Canada (1866–71) Abyssinia (1868) Manitoba (1870) Anglo–Zulu War (1879) Second Anglo-Afghan War (1879–80) Basutoland (1880-81) First Boer War (1880–81) Mahdist War (1881–99) Anglo-Egyptian War (1882) Saskatchewan (1885) Central Africa (1886–89) Third Anglo-Burmese War (1885) Mashonaland (1890) Hunza-Nagar Campaign (1891) Anglo-Manipur War (1891) Matabeleland (1893–94) Chitral Expedition (1895) Jameson Raid South Africa (1896) Anglo–Zanzibar War (1896) Matabeleland (1896–97) Benin Expedition (1897) Siege of Malakand (1897) First Mohmand Campaign (1897–98) Tirah Campaign (1897–98) Boxer Rebellion (1898–1901) Second Boer War (1899–1902)

20th century	Somaliland (1900–20) West Africa (1901–02) Tibet expedition (1903–04) Bambatha Rebellion (1906) Nyasaland (1915) Nigeria (1915) Nigeria (1918) Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919) Waziristan campaign (1919–20) Iraq (1920) Malabar Rebellion (1921) Kurdistan (1922–24) Transjordan (1923) Pink's War (1925) Ikhwan Revolt (1927–30) Barzani revolt (1931-32) Second Mohmand Campaign (1935) Palestine (1936–39) Waziristan campaign (1936–39) Ethiopia (1943) Indochina (1945–46) Indonesia (1945) Sarawak (1946–50) Malayan Emergency (1948–60) Mau Mau Uprising Kenya (1952–60) Oman (1954–59) Cyprus Emergency (1955–59) Suez Crisis (1956) Oman (1962–76) Brunei (1962) Sarawak (1962–90) Malaysia (1962–66) Aden (1963–67) Falklands (1982)

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