Episode 3027
Battle of Rio de Janeiro (1710)
Sun, 2025-Aug-17 00:15 UTC
Length - 1:33
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Welcome to random Wiki of the Day, your journey through Wikipedia's vast and varied content, one random article at a time.
The random article for Sunday, 17 August 2025, is Battle of Rio de Janeiro (1710).
The 1710 Battle of Rio de Janeiro was a failed raid by a French privateering fleet on the Portuguese colonial city of Rio de Janeiro in August 1710, during the War of the Spanish Succession. The raid was a complete failure; its commander, Jean-François Duclerc, and more than 600 men were captured. French anger over the Portuguese failure to properly hold, release, or exchange the prisoners contributed to a second, successful raid, the following year.
Duclerc was killed while in Portuguese captivity on 18 March 1711; his killers (and their reason for killing him) are unknown.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:15 UTC on Sunday, 17 August 2025.
For the full current version of the article, see Battle of Rio de Janeiro (1710) on Wikipedia.
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