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Admiral Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, (1726-1799), English admiral, 1816. The Glorious First of June is the name for a naval battle fought in the Atlantic Ocean between 28 May and 1 June 1794 between the Royal Navy and the navy of Revolutionary France. From The History of the War, from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Present Time, volume I, by Hewson Clarke, published by T Kinnersley (London, 1816).