John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts
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Lieutenant-General John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts, PC was an English Army officer, author and politician.
Portrait by the studio of Willem Wissing, c. 1685
John Cutts in battle
Elizabeth Cutts, John Cutts' second wife
Battle of Camaret
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The Battle of Camaret, also referred to as the Brest expedition, was a notable engagement of the Nine Years' War. Expecting Brest to be unguarded as the French fleet stationed there sailed south to fa
John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts
…command of the island's militia; he was colonel of the East Medina Regiment. He returned to active service in 1694, holding a command in the disastrous Brest expedition of June 1694. He was one of Carmarthen's companions in the daring reconnaissance of Camaret Bay, and was soon afterwards again wounded. As colonel of…
Vauban, commander of Brest
Fort de Bertheaume with the Roscanvel peninsula in the background
General Talmash, commander of the landing forces
The English fleet attacks