The Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue took place during the Nine Years' War, between 19 May O.S. and 4 June O.S. 1692. The first was fought near Barfleur on 19 May O.S., with later actions occurring b
The Battle of La Hogue Benjamin West, 1778
Portrait of Edward Russell by Thomas Gibson
Dutch and French ships at Barfleur, by Abraham Storck.
Dutch news pamphlet about the battle, by Romeyn de Hooghe.
Battle of Lagos (1693)
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The Battle of Lagos was fought during the Nine Years' War on 27 June 1693, when a French fleet under Anne Hilarion de Tourville defeated an Anglo-Dutch fleet under George Rooke near Lagos Bay in Portu
Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue
…Navy it was once thought. French losses were quickly made good, and by the following year Tourville was able to inflict a defeat on the Allies in the battle of Lagos. Although the French dropped their invasion plans for the rest of the conflict and switched to a guerre de course, this was a matter of policy rather…
Painting of the battle by Théodore Gudin