Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Havana (Seven Years' War).

In June, 1762, the Earl of Clanwilliam, with 11,000 British troops, supported by a squadron, under Admiral Pococke, laid siege to Havana. Moro Castle, the key of the defences, was taken by storm, and after a siege of two months and eight days the city was captured.