Battle of La Hogue and Barfleur

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Article abstract: Type of action: Naval battle in the War of the Grand Alliance. Result: Defeat of the French fleet and prevention of a French-Jacobite invasion.

France collected a force of 30,000 French and Irish soldiers for a descent on Ireland, and Paris dispatched orders to the fleet to cover the invasion. Admiral Anne-Hilarion de Cotentin de Tourville’s fleet, ultimately totalling 44 ships of the line, was to be augmented by a squadron of sixteen ships of the line from Toulon.

Under orders to attack, Tourville sought out the opposing fleet even...

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