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The 'Brunswick' and the 'Vengeur du Peuple' at the Battle of the First of June, 1794, painted by Nicholas Pocock.. The Glorious First of June (known in France as Bataille du 13 prairial an 2 and sometimes called the Third Battle of Ushant) of 1794 was the first and largest naval action between the French and British fleets during the French Revolutionary Wars.
The Glorious First of June (1 June 1794), also known as the Fourth Battle of Ushant, (known in France as the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2 or Combat de Prairial) [b] was the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the First French Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars.
English: Lord Howe on the Deck of the 'Queen Charlotte', 1 June 1794 This commemorates Lord Howe's victory over the French off Ushant, known as the Battle of the Glorious First of June, 1794, a title it owes both to being fought over 300 miles out to sea and to the name by which it was publicly celebrated at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, coined by the playwright R.B. Sheridan.
This wrongly makes it appear that Queen Charlotte dropped behind Montagne due to the loss of this mast and thus failed to capture her, and led to criticism of the painting by Lord Howe and by James Bowen (Howe's Master of the Fleet, and a hero of the battle) - Bowen commented that Queen Charlotte would have captured Montagne if such a broadside ...
[1] [2] It depicts a scene during the Glorious First of June, a naval battle that took place on 1 June 1794 during the French Revolutionary Wars. [3] Fought in the Atlantic Ocean several hundred miles west of France , it ended in a victory for the Royal Navy fleet commanded by Admiral Richard Howe .
In 1794 Ypres was part of the Austrian Netherlands, but today it is a municipality in Belgium, located about 120 kilometres (75 mi) west of Brussels. In the Flanders Campaign of 1794, the Coalition army made its main drive against the French center while the French attacked on the two flanks. The Coalition was successful at first but the French ...
Map showing the positions of the main forces in the Low Countries theatre, and Coburg's movements to concentrate for the battle of Fleurus. Numbers indicate the dates in June 1794 that the marches designated by arrows were made. The dotted line indicates Coburg's original planned movement to relieve Ypres.