Luc Urbain du Bouëxic, comte de Guichen was a French Navy officer who commanded the fleets that fought the Royal Navy at the Battle of Ushant and Battle of Martinique during the American Revolutionary
Portrait by Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin, 1832
Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen (1712–1790).
Battle of Ushant (1781)
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The Second Battle of Ushant was a naval battle fought between French and British squadrons near Ushant, an island off the coast of Brittany, on 12 December 1781, as part of the American Revolutionary
Luc Urbain du Bouëxic, comte de Guichen
…a temporary clearance in a fog, at a moment when Guichen's warships were to leeward of the convoy, and attacked the transports at once, yielding the Second Battle of Ushant. Kempenfelt captured twenty of the transports and forced the others to retreat to port. Having failed his mission, Guichen then also returned to port…
A portrait of Richard Kempenfelt, Tilly Kettle