The French garrison of about a thousand men,[2] blockaded by land and sea,[3] surrendered without firing a single shot.

[1] In late January 1794, a Spanish fleet of three ships of the line accompanied by a frigate landed 400 soldiers and blockaded Fort-Dauphin.

On 28 January, the French Republican garrison, commanded by the mulatto Candy, surrendered to Admiral Aristizábal y Espinosa without firing a single shot.

Candy, however, made it a condition for his capitulation that Jean-François Papillon's black troops not be allowed to enter the city.

[3] Fort-Dauphin was occupied by Spanish troops of the Puerto Rico Regiment under the command of Joaquim de Saso.