French ship Bretagne (1766)
Bretagne was a large 110-gun three-decker French ship of the line, built at Brest, which became famous as the flagship of the Brest Fleet during the American War of Independence. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux grant by the Estates of Brittany. She was active in the European theatres of the Anglo-French War and of the French Revolutionary Wars, notably taking an important role in the Glorious First of June. Later, she took part in the Croisière du Grand Hiver and was broken up.
Scale model of the Bretagne (MnM 13 MG 4), on display at Brest naval museum
Depiction on Bretagne flying the white ensign of the Ancien Régime.
Representation of Bretagne circa 1782, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.
Vue du port de Brest by Jean-François Hue
The Glorious First of June, also known as the Fourth Battle of Ushant, was the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the First French Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars.
Lord Howe's action, or the Glorious First of June, Philip James de Loutherbourg
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe; 1794 painting by John Singleton Copley
Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, 1839 painting by Guérin
HMS Defence at the Battle of the Glorious 1 June 1794, Nicholas Pocock