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	Second (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Second Battle of Kosovo The Second Battle of Kosovo was fought in 1389.
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	Battle of Ushant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The First Battle of Ushant, July 27, 1778, fought 100 miles west of Ouessant, was a large but inconclusive engagement in the American Revolutionary War.
		The Second Battle of Ushant, December 12, 1781, was a convoy battle, also in the American Revolutionary War.
		The Third Battle of Ushant, May 28 to June 1, 1794, fought 400 miles west of Ouessant, is better known as the Battle of the Glorious First of June.
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	Battle of Ushant -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Several (A pitched battle between naval fleets) naval battles fought near the (additional info and facts about Île d'Ouessant) Île d'Ouessant (Ushant) in (A former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay) Brittany between the British and French navies are known as Battles of Ushant:
		The (additional info and facts about First Battle of Ushant) First Battle of Ushant, July 27, 1778, fought 100 miles west of Ouessant, was a large but inconclusive engagement in the (The revolution of the American colonies against Great Britain; 1775-1783) American Revolutionary War.
		The (additional info and facts about Third Battle of Ushant) Third Battle of Ushant, May 28 to June 1, 1794, fought 400 miles west of Ouessant, is better known as the Battle of the Glorious First of June.
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	Probert Encyclopaedia: Battles (1700-1799) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Battle of Aboukir Bay, also known as the Battle of the Nile, was a naval battle during the Napoleonic Wars between Great Britain and France, in which Admiral Horatio Nelson defeated Napoleon Bonaparte's fleet at the Egyptian seaport of Aboukir on the 1st of August 1798.
		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 The Saints was a British naval victory over the French on the 12th of April 1782 during the American War of Independence, off the islands of Les Saintes in the channel separating Dominica from Guadeloupe in the Windward Islands.
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	Battle of Ushant (1781) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Second Battle of Ushant was a naval battle fought between French and British squadrons near Ushant on 12 December 1781 during the American War of Independence.
		The French convoy was later dispersed in a gale and most of the ships forced to return to port.
		Only two of the five ships of the line intended for the West Indies arrived in time for the Battle of the Saintes in April.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Second_Battle_of_Ushant (233 words)

	Encyclopedia: Second Battle of Ushant
		The Ile dOuessant (in English Ushant, in Breton Enez Eusa) is an island in the English Channel which marks the north-westernmost point of European France.
		December 12 is the 346th day (347th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
		The Battle of the Saintes, 12 April 1782: surrender of the Ville de Paris by Thomas Whitcombe, painted 1783, shows Samuel Hoods Barfleur, center, attacking the French flagship Ville de Paris, right.
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	French Navy Web Page
		The French naval success at the Second Battle of the Virginia Capes in September 1781 was ‘the keystone' of the Yorktown Campaign, and provides dramatic testimony of the French Navy's contribution to the American cause in that theater of operations.
		His fame was won as victor of the Second Battle of the Virginia Capes, where his fleet of 24 French ships of the line drove off the 19 British ships under Admiral Graves in early September 1781, thus isolating the British forces of Cornwallis at Yorktown.
		Second Naval Battle of the Virginia Capes (1781).
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	Ushant
		Battle of Ushant [Isle d'Ouessant] (27 July 1778) between the French and British fleets.
		In England, this battle created "a major political row and a massive self-inflicted wound in the officer corps of the British Royal Navy, centered round the feud between Keppel (encouraged by the political opposition) and Palliser, a strong government supporter.
		"The so-called Second Battle of Ushant, fought three years after the first, was not really a battle, but it had a good deal of impact on the naval operations of 1782 in the West Indies.
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	Second Battle of Ushant -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Second Battle of Ushant was a naval battle fought between the French and British fleets near (additional info and facts about Ushant) Ushant on 12 December 1781 during the (The revolution of the American colonies against Great Britain; 1775-1783) American Revolutionary War.
		A French convoy sailed from (A port city in northwestern France (in Brittany); the chief naval station of France) Brest on 10 December, protected by a fleet of 21 (additional info and facts about ships of the line) ships of the line commanded by (additional info and facts about Comte de Guichen) Comte de Guichen.
		The French were dispersed in a gale and forced to return to port.
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	Second Anglo-Mysore War
		The Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780-1784) was a conflict in India between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Mysore.
		Warren Hastings sent from Bengal Sir Eyre Coote, who, though repulsed at Chidambaram, defeated Haidar three times in succession in the battles of Porto Novo, Pollilur and Sholingarh, while Tipu was forced to raise the siege of Wandiwash, and Vellore was provisioned.
		This was the second of four Anglo-Mysore Wars.
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	Battle of Trafalgar
		The battle raged for five hours, in which time not one single British ship was lost, however, Nelson would tragically lose his life at the very moment of his triumph, a triumph which rendered the British Navy unchallenged in supremacy for over a century.
		One of the most decisive battles in the history of the Royal Navy, Nelson's defeat of the French fleet took place on 21st October 1805 off Cape Trafalgar and was conducted with not a single British ship lost, although few ships escaped severe punishment and loss of life on both sides was tragically high.
		Elsewhere, the battle rages on with Temeraire and Victory engaged with the French Redoubtable, while to the right of the picture, the shattered, drifting remains of Villeneuves Bucentaure (80 guns) is approached by the Mars (74 guns).
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	HMS Victory - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Her figurehead was replaced along with her masts and the paint scheme changed from red to the fl and yellow seen today.
		The outcome of the campaign was that British Government agreed to restore and preserve her to commemorate Nelson, the Battle of Trafalgar and the Royal Navy's supremacy during and after the Napoleonic period.
		Restoration continued and in 1928 King George V was able to unveil a tablet celebrating the completion of the work, although it still continues under the supervision of the Society for Nautical Research.
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	Battle of Ushant (1778) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Ushant (or First Battle of Ushant) took place on 27 July 1778 during the American War of Independence, fought between French and British fleets 100 miles west of Ushant, a French island at the mouth of the English Channel off the north-westernmost point of France.
		The two fleets manoeuvered during shifting winds and a heavy rain squall until a battle became inevitable with the British more or less in column and the French in some confusion.
		However, the French managed to pass along the British line to windward with their most advanced ships.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_Battle_of_Ushant (273 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - HMS Victory
		The indecisive nature of the battle itself, with both sides claiming victory and no ships sunk on either side, created a rift between the two British admirals, which rapidly blew up into a full-scale political row.
		Keppel was court martialed for his part in the battle in January 1779 for "Misconduct and Neglect of Duty" - a charge carrying the death penalty.
		After this battle, Victory was handed over to Admiral Howe and served as his flagship during the relief of Gibraltar (beseiged by the Spanish).
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	American Revolutionary War
		The battle was technically a British victory, but losses were so heavy that the attack was not followed up.
		The attack was repelled, and General Arnold, though relieved of command by Gates, rushed to the battle and led a decisive counterattack.
		King's Mountain was noteworthy because it was not a battle between British redcoats and American troops: It was a battle between American Loyalists and American Patriots.
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	American Revolutionary War - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Later that year, in the last major encounter of the war, the Battle of Blue Licks, a party of Kentuckians was soundly defeated by a superior force of British regulars and Native Americans.
		One wing of his army was utterly defeated at the Battle of Kings Mountain on October 7, 1780, delaying his move into North Carolina.
		Second Battle of Ushant - December 12, 1781
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	Convoy - Unipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		On the entry of the U.S. into World War II, the U.S Navy decided not to instigate convoys on eastern seaboard of the U.S. The result was what the U-boat crews called their second happy time, which did not come to an end until convoys were introduced.
		The Battle of the Barents Sea, December 1942
		The Battle of the Bismarck Sea, March 1943
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	Ile d'Ouessant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Located at 48 28N 5 05W, it is administratively part of the département of Finistère.
		Several naval battles have been fought near Ouessant between the British and French navies:
		Ushant is also the title of the autobiography of the American poet and novelist Conrad Aiken, published in 1952.
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	World War 1 and 2 - HMS Queen (1769) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		She was a three-deck ship, launched in 1769 with 90 guns (increased to 98 in the 1780s).
		Queen fought at the Second Battle of Ushant in 1781 and the Glorious First of June in 1794, where she was the flagship of Rear-Admiral Alan Gardner.
		In the years following the Battle of Trafalgar the requirement for big, three deck ships with large crew compliment diminished, and in 1811 Queen was cut down to become a two-decker with 74 guns.
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	This article is about the general concept particularly its use...
		The Battle of Portland Battle of Portland, 1653 1653
		The course of the second Battle of the Atlantic second Battle of the Atlantic was a long struggle as the Germans found tactics that would work against convoys and the British developed counter-tactics to thwart the Germans.
		The enormous number of vessels involved and the frequency of engagements meant that statistical techniques could be applied to evaluate tactics: this was a significant early use of operational research operational research in war.
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	1781 Definition / 1781 Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The second Continental Congress adopted the Articles on November 15, 1777, after 16 months of debate.
		Events 1608 - John Smith elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia 1776 - Nathan Hale volunteers to spy 1813 - The U.S. defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
		Bank of North AmericaThe Bank of North America was chartered in 1781 by the Continental Congress and opened on January 7, 1782 at the prodding of Finance Minister Robert Morris, and was rechartered in 1784.
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	Battle of the First of June -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		(Aug. 1, 1798), battle that was one of the greatest victories of the British admiral Horatio Nelson.
		It accompanied the U.S. landing on Saipan and was known as “the greatest carrier battle of the war,” ending in a complete U.S. victory.
		The Battle of Marathon was a decisive victory for the Greeks during the Persian Wars.
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	The First Battle of the Marne (from World War I) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The battle arose out of an attempt by the British fleet under Earl Howe to intercept a grain convoy from the United States that was being escorted into...
		During the period between 1946 and 1962, the nature of this new conflict emerged as the United States and its Western allies became embroiled in a battle against the Soviet Union and the specter of...
		Historical narratives and photographs of the war with an emphasis on the Battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917.
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	Second Battle of Ushant - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Second Battle of Ushant - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Second Battle of Ushant was a naval battle fought between the French and British fleets near Ushant on 12 December 1781 during the American Revolutionary War.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Second Battle of Ushant contains research on
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Second_Battle_of_Ushant (156 words)

	Battle of Trafalgar
		At dawn on the 21st, the 33 ships of the combined fleets of France and Spain were sighted by the British fleet along the horizon heading in a ragged column in the general direction of Gibraltar, having left Cadiz harbour the previous day.
		Soon after 12 noon, ranging fire from the combined fleet began to find its mark, and more concentrated salvos were beginning to take their toll on the British columns, leaving the lead ships with pockmarked sails and masts, shredded rigging, and mounting casualties.
		The battle had now developed into a general melee, white smoke obscuring the ships with flashes of yellow flame cutting through the din of roaring cannon, crackling musketry and shrieks of the wounded, adding to a most hellish spectacle.
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	Battle of Trafalgar
		Military art prints of the Battle of Trafalgar by leading military artists, published by Cranston Fine Arts, the military print company.
		The Battle took place at the Cape of Trafalgar, 80 KM west of Cadiz, British Victory of the French and Spanish Navies, with the British losses being the Vice Admiral, Lord Horatio Nelson who was killed in the action, and some 1596 Officers and Men, killed or wounded.
		In the background, HMS Neptune is emerging through the gunsmoke and is about to pass the wreck of the French flagship Bucentaure which Victory so spectacularly routed as she passed through the allied line.
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		When war with the Revolutionary France broke out 10 years later, she became part of the Channel Fleet under Lord Howe and fought at the Battle of the Glorious 1st of June 1794 where she was badly damaged.
		Battle honours for HMS Orion: Glorious 1st June 1794, Groix 1795, Cape St Vincent 1797, Battle of the Nile 1798, Battle of Trafalgar 1805, Baltic 1807.
		When built she carried ninety guns, but like certain other Second Rates of her class, additional guns were mounted in the early 1780's and it was as a 98 that she fought at both the second Battle of Ushant in 1781 and at the Glorious 1st of June in 1794.
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