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	BATTLE OF LA HOGUE - LoveToKnow Article on BATTLE OF LA HOGUE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		LA HOGUE, BATTLE OF, the name now given to a series of encounters which took place from the I9th to the 23rd (OS.) of May 1692, between an allied British and Dutch fleet and a French force, on the northern and eastern sides of the Cotentin in Normandy.
		to the north of Cape La Hague, the north-western extremity of the peninsula, which must not be confounded with La Houque, or La Hogue, the place at which the fighting ended.
		Sufficient accounts of the battle may be found in Lediards Naval History (London, 1735), and for the French side in Trondes Batailles navales de la France (Paris, 1867).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LA/LA_HOGUE_BATTLE_OF.htm (904 words)

	HMS Hogue (D74) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was named after the Battle of La Hogue that took place in 1692.
		Hogue was launched on 21 April 1944 and commissioned on 24 July 1945.
		In 1959, while still in the Far East, tragedy struck Hogue when, during a night exercise, she collided with the INS Mysore, an Indian light cruiser that was formerly HMS Nigeria.
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	Battle of La Hougue - TheBestLinks.com - La Hogue, English Channel, England, France, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Battle of La Hougue, also known as the Battle of Barfleur, took place at Saint-Vaast La Hougue near Barfleur in the Cotentin peninsula, Normandy, France between 27 May and 3 June 1692 (in the Gregorian calendar, corresponding to 17 May–23 May in the Julian calendar then in use in England).
		It was the decisive naval battle of the War of the Grand Alliance.
		In May 1692 the French fleet of 44 ships of the line under the command of the Comte Anne Hilarion de Tourville was preparing to transport an invading army of Franco-Irish troops to restore James II to the English throne.
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	World History 1675- 1700 AD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This time at the Battle of Barfleur, they were heavily outnumbered and outgunned The French mounted only 3,240 guns against an enemies force of nearly 7,000.
		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.
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	Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		also called Battle Of Al-'uqab (July 16, 1212), major battle of the Christian reconquest of Spain in which the Almohads (a Muslim dynasty of North Africa and Spain) were severely defeated by the combined armies of Leon, Castile, Aragon, Navarre, and Portugal.
		The Roman de la Rose (Romance of the Rose) was one of the most popular French poems of the late medieval period of European history.
		The Battle of Marathon was a decisive victory for the Greeks during the Persian Wars.
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	HMS Hogue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hogue, after the battle of La Hogue, May 1692:
		Hogue, launched 1900, was a Cressy-class armoured cruiser, sunk in 1914.
		Hogue, launched 1944, was a Battle-class destroyer, scrapped in 1962.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Hogue (104 words)

	The Royal Academy of Arts : : Luce Lecture 2004: A Transcript
		Here we are in the midst of battle, with attackers pushing forward in an upward diagonal movement that is paralleled by the streaming smoke of battle and cloud in the sky: a baroque compositional thrust which is echoed in Trumbull’s Bunker’s Hill.
		We know that Trumbull was intimately familiar with the Battle of La Hogue, because, as he recorded in his autobiography, one of his jobs as West’s studio assistant was to copy it, to paint a large replica now in the Metropolitan Museum.
		West’s Battle of La Hogue is not dated and was exhibited two years later, but there is evidence, including an inscription on Trumbull’s copy, to suggest that it also was at least begun in 1778.
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	Search Results for "Hogue"
		Hogue, La, (la og) (KEY), or La Hougue (la oog) (KEY), cape on the northeast coast of the Cotentin peninsula, France, on the English Channel.
		...to be legendary, but he did command the fleet and successfully fight the French at La Hogue (1692), Saint-Malo (1693), and Dunkirk (1696) and the Spanish in the West...
		In the War of the Grand Alliance he burned enemy ships at the battle of La Hogue in 1692 and was joint commander of the English fleet in 1693.
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	Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion: Battles & Wars: H (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Battle on the Northumbrian border in which the forces of Edwin were defeated by those of Cadwallon and Penda.
		Battle in the Wars of the Roses between a Yorkist army led by Lord Montagu and a Lancastrian one led by Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset.
		Battle fought in the Tamar valley, Cornwall, between Egbert and the Britons of Cornwall allied with the Danes.
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	Maritime Topics On Stamps, ships of the line twodecker, threedecker, fourdecker
		In the battle of Trafalgar she lost one mast and had to be towed to Gibraltar.
		She served as the flag-ship of admiral Tourville in the battle at La Hogue and was set on fire by the Britons.
		This battle was won by the Britons because of the massive firepower of their broadsides, the higher rate of fire and the superior aiming of their gunners.
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	Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion: Battles & Wars: L (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Battle caused by the baronial opposition to the Henry III, and led by Simon de Montfort.
		This was the biggest naval battle in history, involving 216 US warships, 2 Australian vessels, and 64 Japanese warships, and ended with the destruction of the Japanese navy The Americans lost 3 light carriers, 2 destroyers, 1 destroyer escort, and 200 aircraft.
		Battle early in the reign of Edward II at which his forces in Scotland, led by Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, were defeated by Robert de Bruce.
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	HMS Hogue - TheBestLinks.com - 1914, 1962, 1692, Battle class destroyer, ...
		HMS Hogue - TheBestLinks.com - 1914, 1962, 1692, Battle class destroyer,...
		HMS Hogue, 1914, 1962, 1692, Battle class destroyer, Cressy class cruiser, HMS...
		The name Hogue comes from the Battle of La Hogue, a series of naval engagements that took place in May 1692.
	www.thebestlinks.com /HMS_Hogue.html (99 words)

	Webb Family Tree
		He was defeated in September 1650 at the battle of Dunbar by Oliver Cromwell.
		It is known as the Battle of Lowestoft and occurred after the capture of an Anglo-Hamburg convoy by the Dutch.
		The battle was hard fought between ships of the two fleets.
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	Learn more about Royal Navy in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The first reformation and major expansion of the Royal Navy occurred during the reign of King Henry VIII whose ships the "Great Harry" and the "Mary Rose" engaged the French navy in a battle in the Solent in 1545.
		Between 1690 and 1916, the Royal Navy suffered only one major defeat, at the Battle of the Chesapeake, and was able to defeat decisively all challengers, as at the Battle of Trafalgar.
		1914 Battle of Heligoland Bight, Battle of Coronel, Battle of the Falkland Islands
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	Cottage And Farmhouse Furniture - Seventeenth Century Styles
		Raleigh's first colony in Virginia was founded in 1585, but the second colonization began in 16o6, and the period ended, we may say, with the battle of La Hogue, in 1692, when the French fleet was destroyed.
		Such martial incidents as the battle of Rathmines and the storming of Drogheda and Wexford in 1649, the defeat of Montrose and battle of Dunbar in 165o, the battle of Worcester in 1651 and the foreign wars with Holland and Spain fill up the years to 1658.
		The long list of battles inferred in the chronological note at the commencement of this chapter shows the intense upheaval which was caused by the civil wars which raged from north to south, from east to west, and stultified any artistic impulses which may have been in process of materialisation.
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	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - Zeven Provinciën (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The battle was marked by a lack of coordination on the part of the Dutch and stubborn determination by Monck, who after the second day's fighting turned west to link up with Rupert.
		As in the Four Days' Battle, Lieutenant Admiral Cornelis Tromp found himself cut off from the body of the Dutch fleet, and he was eventually forced to fly before a smaller English squadron.
		On May 29, 1692, she was heavily damaged at the Battle of La Hogue—in which the French fleet was shattered—and returned to Rotterdam.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_102200_zevenprovinc.htm (987 words)

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		IT is now time to relate the events which, since the battle of La Hogue, had taken place at Saint Germains.
		The highest praise due to the royalist who shed his blood on the field of battle or on the scaffold for hereditary monarchy was simply that he was not a traitor.
		This battle is memorable as the first of a long series of battles in which the Irish troops retrieved the honour lost by misfortunes and misconduct in domestic war.
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	Old and antique prints and maps: Other prints, Military and Battle prints
		USA History, Death of Col. Rawle at the Battle of Trenton (in 1776), 1863.
		USA History, Battle of Bennington (in 1777), 1863.
		"Battle of Bennington", anonymous engraver, published in History of the United States of America, 1863.
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		The battles of Lexington and Concord were precipitated by the attempt of the British to seize the colonists' munitions of war.
		The battle of Hastings, and the events which followed it, not only placed a Duke of Normandy on the English throne, but gave up the whole population of England to the tyranny of the Norman race.
		_The Battle of La Hogue_ The year 1692 was marked by momentous events issuing from a scheme, in some respects well concerted, for the invasion of England by a French force, with the object of the restoration of James.
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	THE STAMPS OF ALDERNEY - INDEX
		300th anniversary of the battle of La Hogue : two french Warships on fire.
		300th anniversary of the battle of La Hogue : Sinking French Warship.
		300th anniversary of the battle of La Hogue : The Battle of La Hogue.
	www.philnet.fr /eng/cyber/alderney (682 words)

	WHKMLA : War of the Grand Alliance, 1689-1697
		The French supported the Irish rebellion (James II.) which was defeated in the BATTLE OF THE BOYNE in 1690.
		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.
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	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Hogue, La @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hogue, La The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition; 9/9/2005
		HOGUE, LA [Hogue, La], or La Hougue, cape on the northeast coast of the Cotentin peninsula, France, on the English Channel.
		The battle ended French naval supremacy in the war.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:Hogue-La&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (132 words)

	Honora De Burgo - A Biography
		After the defeat at the Battle of the Boyne (1-7-1690), the Irish were retreating westwards and it became too dangerous for Honora to stay at Lucan, so she followed her husband to Athlone, Aughrim and Limerick.
		At the battle of La Hogue on 19-5-1692, the French fleet of Louis XIV was heavily defeated by the Anglo-Dutch fleet of William III.
		The battle of Landen began at half past four in the morning of the 29th July 1693.
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	TOURVILLE - Online Information article about TOURVILLE
		The result was that the " Soleil Royale " herself and fifteen other ships were cut off and destroyed at La Hogue.
		Gibraltar, but again he kept his fleet in battle order, and a large part of the convoy escaped.
		Troude's Batailles navales de la France gives the French version of these and the other actions in which Tourville was concerned.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /TOO_TUM/TOURVILLE.html (1487 words)

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		In 1692, Louis XIV of France mounted an ill-fated attempt to restore James II, a fellow Catholic, to the throne of England.
		In response, Britain and her Protestant allies, the Dutch, massed their fleets and engaged the enemy for five days off the northern French coast near La Hogue.
		Vice Admiral George Rooke stands in the thick of the battle with his raised sword, while the French commander is shown deserting his craft with its fleur-de-lis motif.
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	Studies for Masterpieces
		Studies for A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884.
		The Webshots image at left is one of the dozens of studies that the tireless Pointillist Georges Seurat made for his greatest painting.
		Pen and ink study for The Battle of La Hogue, 1778.
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		Marlborough defeats the French at the battle of Ramillies, May 23.
		Marlborough defeats the French at the battle of Oudenarde.
		Marlborough defeats the French at the battle of Malplaquet.
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	la hogue - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "la hogue" is defined.
		Hogue, La : Columbia Encyclopedia, Six Edition [home, info]
		Phrases that include la hogue: battle of la hogue, la hogue battle of
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	AllRefer.com - Hogue, La, France (French Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Hogue, La, France (French Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Hogue, La[lA Og] Pronunciation Key, or La Hougue[lA OOg] Pronunciation Key, cape on the northeast coast of the Cotentin peninsula, France, on the English Channel.
		Off the cape, during the War of the Grand Alliance, a French fleet under Tourville was defeated (1692) by the English and Dutch.
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	Royal Navy
		The first HMS Cornwall (1692-1761) was an 80-gun third rate, completed at Southampton in 1692.
		In May she took part in the Battle of Barfleur - la Hogue.
		Rebuilt at Rotherhithe in 1705-06 she then served in the Mediterranean where she was involved in the capture of a French convoy off Catalonia in May 1708.
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