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The Portuguese conquest of French Guiana was an 1809 military operation against Cayenne , capital of the South American colony of French Guiana , in the scope of the Napoleonic Wars .. Napoleonic Wars. Napoleonic Wars. Cayenne. Cayenne. French Guiana. French Guiana. Portuguese. Portugal. The operation was performed by a combined expeditionary force that included Portuguese -LRB- from Portugal and from Colonial Brazil -RRB- and British military contingents .. Portugal. Kingdom of Portugal. Brazil. Brazil. Colonial Brazil. Colonial Brazil. Portuguese. Portugal. The operation was part of a series of attacks on French held territory in the Americas during 1809 and due to commitments elsewhere , the British Royal Navy was unable to send substantial forces to attack the fortified river port .. Royal Navy. Royal Navy. Instead , appeals were made to the Portuguese government , which had been driven out of Portugal the year before during the Peninsula War and was resident in Brazil .. Portugal. Kingdom of Portugal. Brazil. Brazil. Portuguese. Portugal. Peninsula War. Peninsula War. In exchange for providing troops and transports for the operation , the Portuguese were promised Guiana as an expansion of their holdings in Brazil for the duration of the conflict .. Brazil. Brazil. Portuguese. Portugal. The British contribution was small , consisting solely of the minor warship HMS Confiance .. Confiance however had a highly effective crew and an experienced captain in James Lucas Yeo , who was to command the entire expedition .. James Lucas Yeo. James Lucas Yeo. The more substantial Portuguese contingent consisted of 700 regular soldiers of the colonial Army of Brazil - led by Lieutenant Colonel Manuel Marques de Elva Portugal - , 550 marines of the Royal Brigade of the Navy detached in Brazil and several warships to act as transports and provide offshore artillery support .. Portugal. Kingdom of Portugal. Brazil. Brazil. Royal Brigade of the Navy. Portuguese Marine Corps. Portuguese. Portugal. The French defenders were weakened by years of Royal Navy blockade and could only muster 400 regular infantry and 800 unreliable militia , formed in part from the territory 's free black population .. Royal Navy. Royal Navy. As a result , resistance was inconsistent and despite Cayenne 's strong fortifications , the territory fell within a week .. Cayenne. Cayenne. It is considered to be the baptism of fire of the Brazilian Marine Corps , as there was a participation of the Royal Brigade of the Navy that would give origin to it .. Royal Brigade of the Navy. Portuguese Marine Corps. Brazilian Marine Corps. Brazilian Marine Corps