2-637-088 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Battle of La Hogue', c1781. Following the Battle of Barfleur, the remaining French fleet assembled in La Hogue, where it was attacked by the English fleet on 23 May 1692. It was the decisive naval battle of the Nine Years' War, also known as the War of the English Succession. From Old Naval Prints, by Charles N. Robinson & Geoffrey Holme. [The Studio Limited, London, 1924]