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Battle of Ushant (1782)
The Third Battle of Ushant or the Action of 20–21 April 1782 was a naval battle fought during the American War of Independence, 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.〔
==Background==
Intelligence had been received that the French were detaching a fleet from Brest destined to be 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 fail of the line and three frigates in hopes of falling in with them sailing on 5 April from Portsmouth.
On the 20th being to the North East of Ushant the frigate 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, in chase of the French fleet.
The French convoy comprised nineteen transports and the 64-gun ''Actionnaire'' armed en flûte bound from Brest to the Île-de-France〔Roche, p.20〕 This was escorted by the 74-gun ''Protecteur'' and ''Pégase'', and the frigates ''Indiscrète'' and ''Andromaque''.〔Roche, p.41〕 At sunset the ''Foudroyant'' had got far ahead of her consorts, and near enough to the French ships and made them out to be a convoy. The squadron soon afterwards separated and the largest ship the 1,778 tons ''Pégase'' which the ''Foudroyant'' was pursuing, also bore up.〔
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