Cornwallis's Retreat
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Cornwallis's Retreat was a naval engagement during the French Revolutionary Wars in which a British Royal Navy squadron of five ships of the line and two frigates was attacked by a much larger French
Painting of the battle by Thomas Luny
William Cornwallis, the British commander at the engagement
1802 engraving of the battle
First phase: the two squadrons fight each other
Admiral Sir Charles Cotton, 5th Baronet was a Royal Navy officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars whose service continued until his death in command of the Channel Fleet from
Engraving of Cotton by Henry Hoppner Meyer
Miss Philadelphia Rowley, Thomas Gainsborough (ca 1783)