Battle of Ushant (1782)
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| Part of the American Revolutionary War | |||||||
 HMS Foudroyant and the captured French ship of the line Pégase entering Portsmouth Harbour, 30 April 1782 by Dominic Serres. |
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 Great Britain
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 France
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John Jervis Frederick Maitland
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Chevalier de Sillans (POW)
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| 3 third rate ships of the line | 2 third rate ships of the line, 2 frigates, 18 transports & merchants |
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 5 wounded |
Pégase & Actionaire captured, 12 transports captured, 160 killed and wounded, 2,100 captured |
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The Third Battle of Ushant or the Action of 20–21 April 1782 was a naval battle fought during the American Revolutionary War, between a French naval fleet of three ships of the line protecting a convoy and two British Royal naval ships of the line off Ushant, a French island at the mouth of the English Channel off the north-westernmost point of France. This was the third battle that occurred in this region during the course of the war.
Intelligence had been received that the French were detaching a fleet from Brest destined for the East Indies to supply the Bali de Suffren's fleet in his campaign to recapture French possessions taken by the British in support of Admiral Edward Hughes. Vice-Admiral Samuel Barrington, was sent out with a fleet consisting of twelve sail of the line and three frigates in hopes of falling in with them, sailing on 5 April from Portsmouth.
On 20 April, the fleet was northeast of Ushant when the frigate HMS Artois under Captain John Macbride sent a signal after discovering the French fleet. Barrington then made the signal for the 84-gun ship HMS Foudroyant in the lead under Captain John Jervis with other ships, to give chase to the French fleet.
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