Villaret has withdrawn to an anchorage off…
June 1795 CE
The French fleet is discovered here by the main British Channel Fleet on June 22 and defeated at the ensuing Battle of Groix, losing three ships of the line.
Villaret will be criticized by contemporaries for failing to press the attack on Cornwallis's force, while the British admiral will be praised and rewarded for his defiance in the face of overwhelming French numerical superiority.
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Austria, Archduchy of
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Sardinia, Kingdom of (Savoy)
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French First Republic
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