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	Beachy Head - LoveToKnow 1911
		BEACHY HEAD, a promontory on the coast of Sussex, England, S.W. of Eastbourne, about 3 m.
		This naval battle, known to the French as Bevisier (a corruption of Pevensey), was fought on the 30th of June 1690.
		An allied force of 37 British sail of the line, under command of the earl of Torrington (Arthur Herbert), and of 2 2 Dutch under C. Evertsen, was at anchor under the headland, while a French fleet of over 70 sail, commanded by the comte de Tourville, was anchored some miles off to the south-west.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Beachy_Head (680 words)

	Battle of the Boyne - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Battle of the Boyne was a turning point in the Williamite war in Ireland between the deposed King James II of England and VII of Scotland and his son-in-law and successor, William, for the English, Scottish and Irish thrones.
		The battle of the Boyne was the decisive encounter in a war that was primarily about James's attempt to regain the thrones of England and Scotland, but is widely remembered as a decisive moment in the struggle between Protestant and Catholic factions in Ireland.
		The opposing armies in the battle were led by the Roman Catholic King James of England, Scotland and Ireland and opposing him, his son-in-law the Protestant William III ("William of Orange") who had deposed James from his English and Scottish thrones in the previous year.
	www.wiki-mirror.us /index.php/Battle_of_the_Boyne (2811 words)

	Beachy Head - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Beachy Head high chalk cliffs (575 ft/175 m), on the south coast of East Sussex, S England.
		The battle of Beachy Head, in the War of the Grand Alliance, was fought (1690) between an Anglo-Dutch fleet under the earl of Torrington and the French fleet under the comte de Tourville.
		Beachy Head husband had a 'motive to kill his wife'; New police probe as coroner brands widower 'a dishonest control freak'.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-beachyhe.html (311 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Beachy Head
		Beachy Head is a chalk headland on the south coast of England, close to the town of Eastbourne in the county of East Sussex.
		The lighthouse was superseded by the newer Beachy Head Lighthouse, 43m in height, built in the sea below in 1902.
		The Battle of Beachy Head, 1690, was a naval engagement during the War of the Grand Alliance.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Beachy_Head (468 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for head (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Head, Sir Edmund Walker 1805-68, British governor-general of Canada (1854-61), cousin of Sir Francis Bond Head.
		Diamond Head peak, 761 ft (232 m) high, along the rim of an extinct volcano, SE Oahu island, Hawaii.
		The head of Russian catholic church Archbishop Tadeush Kondrusyevich...
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=head (551 words)

	Taken from Web Site: http://www
		The Battle of Beachy Head was an English naval defeat in the Channel on the 30th of June 1690 by a French force sailing to London in support of a proposed Jacobite rebellion.
		The Battle of Culloden was a defeat in 1746 of the Jacobite rebel army of the British prince Charles Edward Stuart (the 'Young Pretender') by the Duke of Cumberland on a stretch of moorland in Inverness‑shire, Scotland.
		The Battle of Navas de Tolosa was fought in 1212 between Yakub Almansur of the Almohades and the kings of Aragon, Castile and Navarre.
	www.israelect.com /reference/WillieMartin/Famous_Battles.htm (14064 words)

	Sir George Rooke - LoveToKnow 1911
		He became rear-admiral in 1690, and fought at the battle of Beachy Head.
		In May of 1692 he served under Russell at the battle of Barfleur, and he greatly distinguished himself in a night attack on the French fleet at La Hogue, when he succeeded in burning six of their ships.
		On the 13th of August of the same year he attacked the French fleet off Malaga, the battle being drawn.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_George_Rooke (379 words)

	Battle of Beachy Head (1690) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Beachy Head – known in France as the Bataille de Bévezier – was a naval engagement fought on 10 July 1690 during the War of the Grand Alliance.
		The Battle of Beachy Head was the greatest French tactical naval victory over their English and Dutch opponents.
		Immediately after the battle, Torrington was sent to the Tower of London to await a Court Martial; but although he was found not guilty, and took up his seat in the House of Lords, William refused to see him and dismissed him from the service.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Beachy_Head_(1690) (1955 words)

	Armies
		France had long wanted to dominate the sea, and for some two years after the battle of beachy head (1690) it attained this dream.
		In the battle of La Hoque, and in particular in the subsequent flight of the fleet, France lost about two dozen ships of the line.
		Instead of choosing to dominate the sea in the future and thus be able to convoy France's trade during the war, France decided on the 'guerre de course' in which raiders would attack allied shipping.
	www.spanishsuccession.nl /navies.html (370 words)

	William of Orange & the borders of Nord/Pas-de-Calais
		Battle of the Boyne 1690 - William's famous victory in Ireland saved Ulster protestants besieged in Londonderry by James and the French.
		Battle of Beachy Head, 1690: the French sank 5 ships of the combined English and Dutch fleets, but had not made preparations to follow up any victory with an invasion.
		In 1690, they did so while William was busy in Ireland with the army and part of the fleet.
	www.theotherside.co.uk /tm-heritage/background/william-orange.htm (896 words)

	Beachy
		The Beachy Amish are a subdivision of the Amish, an American branch of the Mennonites.
		The Battle of Beachy Head or ''Beveziers'' took place on the south coast of East Sussex, England on 30 June 1690 in the War of the Grand Alliance; Beachy Head is a promontory near Eastbourne.
		The battle was fought between an Anglo-Dutch fleet under the Earl of Torrington with sixty vessels and the French fleet under the Comte Anne Hilarion de Tourville with seventy-five ships in ten km lines with the largest in the middle.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/18/beachy.html (1335 words)

	BEACHY HEAD CLIFFS SOUTH COAST OF ENGLAND
		Beachy Head, with its dramatic white cliffs and gently undulating downs, is an area of outstanding natural beauty and tranquillity which belies its proximity to the busy south eastern towns of England.
		Beachy Head is a dramatic and beautiful chalk headland on the south coast of England.
		Beachy Head is a dramatic natural landmark that draws tourists and those intent on committing suicide alike.
	www.solarnavigator.net /geography/beachy_head.htm (3423 words)

	WHKMLA : War of the Grand Alliance, 1689-1697
		The war at sea was marked by two encounters, the BATTLE OF BEACHY HEAD (1690, French victory) and the BATTLE OF LA HOGUE 1692, an English victory.
		Savoy was occupied in 1690, her army defeatet in the Battle of Marsaglia (1693) and in 1696 signed a separate peace treaty.
		French invasions in 1690 and 1693 were repelled, in 1695 the allies expelled the French garrison from Casale (in the Principality of Monferrato).
	www.zum.de /whkmla/military/17cen/grandall.html (806 words)

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		The military situation which finally resulted in the battle of the Metaurus and the triumph of Rome may be summed up as follows: To overthrow Rome it was necessary to attack her in Italy at the heart of her power, and shatter the strongly linked confederacy of which she was the head.
		The battle of Trafalgar, fought October 21, was therefore separated by a space of two months from the extensive movements of which it was nevertheless the outcome.
		Since the battle of Lepanto in 1571, though engaged in many wars, no sea victory of any consequence shines on the pages of Spanish history and the decay of her commerce sufficiently accounts for the painful and sometimes ludicrous inaptness shown on the decks of her ships of war.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/3/5/2/13529/13529.txt (14726 words)

	Naval Officers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In 1653, he fought at the Battle of Portland, the Battle of the Gabbard, and the Battle of Scheveningen.
		At the Battle of Beachy Head in 1690, the Elswout was commanded by Captain Noortheij.
		Jan Pouwelszoon was present at the Battle of Dungeness, and was in Cornelis Evertsen de Oude's squadron.
	www.kentishknock.com /officers1.shtml (10165 words)

	Clinton Goveas :: Wikipedia Reference
		One of France's chief rivals, the Holy Roman Empire, was occupied in fighting the Ottoman Empire in the War of the Holy League, which began in 1683 and lasted till 1699.
		At the battles of Marsaglia and Staffarde, France was victorious over the allied forces under Victor Amadeus, Duke of Savoy, overrunning his dominion and reducing the territory under his effective command to merely the area around Turin.
		The French naval victory at the Battle of Beachy Head in 1690, however, was offset by the Anglo-Dutch naval victory at the Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue in 1692; but neither side was able to entirely defeat the opposing navy.
	www.clintongoveas.com /wikipedia/?title=Louis_XIV_of_France (8087 words)

	Battle of Beachy Head
		The Battle of Beachy Head saw the British and Dutch allied against the French.
		This battle was part of the War of English Succession.
		The French attacked on June 30, 1690 with a superior force.
	www.historycentral.com /WH1400-1900/Europe/Europe/BattleofBeachyHead.html (50 words)

	World History 1675- 1700 AD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		After the battle, which took place on July 1, 1690 James was forced to flee to France.
		Eugene of Saxony the commander of Imperial troops in Hungary killed 20,000 Ottomans captured the Ottoman treasury, all of its artillery and provisions and 10 of theSultans wives.
		After the battle the treaty of Karlowitz is signed in which the Ottomans are forced to cede Croatia, Hungary Transilvania and Sovenia to Austria.
	www.multied.com /1812/Ghent.htmlhttp://dates/dates/1675ad.html (680 words)

	Louis XIV of France information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The subsequent Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659) fixed the border between France and Spain at the Pyrenees, ceded various provinces and towns to France in the Spanish Netherlands, and signalled a change in the Balance of Power with the decline of Spain and the rise of France.
		Nonetheless, despite the size of the opposing coalition, French forces in Flanders crushed the allied armies at the Battle of Fleurus in the same year as the Battle of the Boyne, as well as at the Battle of Steenkerque (1692) and the Battle of Neerwinden (1693).
		At the battles of Marsaglia and Staffarde, France was victorious over the allied forces under Victor Amadeus, Duke of Savoy, overrunning his dominion.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Louis_XIV_of_France (6548 words)

	Sussex Shipwreck Recovery Operations - Odyssey Marine Exploration
		By that time the English and their fellow combatants in "The Grand Alliance" arrayed against Louis XIV's powerful French forces had been fighting the War of the League of Augsburg for two years, and the allies' principal advantage had been at sea.
		A frightening prospect of French naval dominance and the destruction of vital trade led Parliament to vote on Christmas Day, 1690, for emergency construction of new warships, 20 of which were the 80-gun "third rate" type.
		HMS Sussex was the seventh craft launched under the building program of 1690, her keel dividing the waters of Chatham Dockyard on April 11, 1693.
	www.shipwreck.net /shipdesign.html (667 words)

	A History of Europe, Chapter 11
		Nor was he the only head of state to do so; the conversion of a prince--or the crowning of one who followed a different faith from his predecessor--had horrible consequences for the people living in that state.
		The rest of 1690 and 1691 were spent in a mopping up operation, before William of Orange could declare that the Irish portion of his kingdom had been pacified.
		In India the decisive victory was won by Robert Clive at the battle of Plassey (1757), which conquered Bengal and gave him the resources needed to uproot the French outposts on the subcontinent.
	xenohistorian.faithweb.com /europe/eu11.html (21351 words)

	Greene, Provincial America, 1690-1740. Ch. VII.
		The first important naval engagement, the battle of Beachy Head in 1690, seemed also to indicate the superiority of the French on the sea, even against a combination of Dutch and English fleets.
		The most important enterprise of the war in North America, the attack on Quebec in 1690, was undertaken by inexperienced colonists without assistance from the home government.
		In 1690 a convention of the northern colonies was held in New York and plans were made for:what proved to be an unsuccessful movement against Canada.
	www.dinsdoc.com /greene-3-7.htm (2623 words)

	arthritis pain relief - Beachy Head
		Beachy Head () is a chalk headland on the south coast of England, close to the town of Eastbourne in the county of East Sussex.
		It was moved more than 17 m (50 ft) further inland in 1999 due to cliff erosion [1].
		The lighthouse was superseded by the newer Beachy Head Lighthouse built in the sea below.
	www.painreliefchat.com /arthritis-pain-relief/Beachy_Head (257 words)

	Grand Alliance, War of the. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The naval war, of which the first major battle was the French victory at Beachy Head (1690), was practically ended by the English victory of La Hogue (1692).
		On land, however, Louis and Vauban took Namur (1692); Marshal Luxembourg was victorious at Fleurus (1690) over the Dutch and at Steenkerke (1692) and Neerwinden (1693) over William III; and the duke of Savoy was defeated at Marsaglia by Catinat (1693), while another French army entered Catalonia.
		The exhaustion of the belligerents and the defection of Savoy from the Grand Alliance (1696) finally led to the Treaty of Ryswick.
	www.bartleby.com /65/gr/GrandAll.html (289 words)

	BEACHY HEAD - Online Information article about BEACHY HEAD
		BEACHY HEAD - Online Information article about BEACHY HEAD
		The pursuit of the French was ineffective, for Tourville persisted in keeping his ships in line of battle, which forced them to regulate their See also:
		account of the battle of Beachy Head, written with ample See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BAR_BEC/BEACHY_HEAD.html (1008 words)

	Pepys' Diary: Clements, John
		He fought in the Battle of Bantry Bay on 1 May 1689, under the command of Admiral Herbert.
		In 1690, he fought in the Battle of Beachy Head, where he commanded the 3rd Rate Expedition (70 guns).
		In 1692, he fought in the Battle of Barfleur, where he commanded the 2nd Rate Duchess (90 guns).
	www.pepysdiary.com /p/5173.php (408 words)

	Name Histories P
		He was sent by his foster father to fetch the head of the Gorgon Medusa, and with the assistance of Hermes (Mercury) and Athense (Minerva), succeeded in slaying her and accomplishing his mission.
		He was sent by his foster father to fetch the head of the Gorgon Medusa, and with the assistance of Hermes and Athene, succeeded in slaying her and accomplishing his mission.
		On his homeward way he proceeded to Aethiopia, where he delivered the maiden Andromeda from the rock to which she was chained as a sacrifice to a sea monster, and slew the beast.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /name_histories_p.htm (3393 words)

	Museum Tour - Shipwreck and Coastal Hertiage Centre
		Beyond this is the story of the British 70-gun warship Anne, beached locally in 1690 after being seriously damaged in the Battle of Beachy Head, against the French navy.
		She was visited by King James II in 1687, just before she carried a German princess to Lisbon to be the bride of King Pedro II of Portugal.
		In 1690 the captain of the Anne had to burn her to stop her being taken as a French prize.
	www.shipwreck-heritage.org.uk /museum/tour/index.html (1246 words)

	The Shipwreck Heritage Association - Welcome
		The Nautical Museums Trust, through a sister trust, owns the wreck of the warship Anne which was severely damaged during the Battle of Beachy Head, against the French, in 1690.
		Funds are sought to raise the Anne as she is the only remaining British warship of her era.
		The vessel, which will be called Jean Bart, after the French privateer, is similar to those which were involved in the Battle of Beachy Head (1690) against the English and Dutch fleets and in which the English warship Anne (see earlier reference) was critically damaged.
	www.nautical-heritage.org.uk /aboutus.html (634 words)

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