Diamond Rock is a 175-metre-high (574 ft) basalt island located south of "Grande Anse du Diamant" before arriving from the south at Fort-de-France, the main port of the Caribbean island of Martinique. The uninhabited island is about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from Pointe Diamant.
View of Diamond Rock from the west
The French fleet under Captain Cosmao attacking Diamond Rock. Painting by Auguste Étienne François Mayer.
The Battle of Diamond Rock took place between 31 May and 2 June 1805 during the Napoleonic Wars, when a Franco-Spanish force dispatched under Captain Julien Cosmao was able to retake Diamond Rock, at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, from the British forces that had occupied it over a year before.
Taking of the rock Le Diamant, near Martinique, 2 June 1805, Auguste Mayer
A cannon is hauled up to the summit of the rock suspended by a cable lashed to the base of Centaur's mainmast
Picturesque Views of the Diamond Rock... A Lodgement under the Rock on the South-west Side
Diamond Rock in 2007