Action of 21 July 1781
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The action of 21 July 1781 was a naval skirmish off the harbour of Spanish River, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, during the War of American Independence. Two light frigates of the French Navy, captained by La Pérouse and Latouche Tréville, engaged a convoy of 18 British ships and their Royal Navy escorts. The French captured two of the British escorts while the remainder of the British convoy escaped.
Combat Naval A La Hauteur De Louisbourg, Auguste-Louis de Rossel de Cercy
Lapérouse in 1778, then a Lieutenant
Astrée (detail of Cercy's Combat naval à la Hauteur de Louisbourg)
Hermione (detail of Cercy's Combat naval à la Hauteur de Louisbourg)
Cape Breton Island
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Cape Breton Island is a rugged and irregularly shaped island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.
Cape Breton Island
Siege of Louisbourg (1758)
Cabot's Landing, Victoria County, commemorating the "first land seen" by explorer John Cabot in 1497
The shoreline of Bras d'Or Lake at Marble Mountain, Inverness Co.