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    Camaret Bay (French: Anse de Camaret) is a small bay on the north coast of Brittany, France. In 1694 it was the site of the battle of Camaret, a naval...
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    stationed there sailed south to face the Spanish, an amphibious operation at Camaret Bay was launched on 18 June 1694 by a 10,000 to 12,000-strong Anglo-Dutch...
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    initially known as the tour de Camaret, is an 18m-high polygonal defensive tower built to a plan by Vauban on the Sillon at Camaret-sur-Mer, as part of the fortifications...
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  • Following is a list of bays, coves and roadsteads in France. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates)...
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    a cutting out expedition capturing the French corvette Chevrette in Camaret Bay. Beaulieu was put in ordinary for the duration of the Peace of Amiens...
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    volunteered to command a boat to cut out the French corvette Chevrette from Camaret Bay on the north coast of Brittany; however, bad weather frustrated the plan...
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    John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (category Governors of the Hudson's Bay Company)
    correspondence with James, leading to the celebrated incident of the "Camaret Bay letter" of 1694. For several months the Allies had been planning an attack...
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    frigates inshore towards Camaret Bay to establish its size and purpose. At 15:30 on 16 December, the French sailed from the Bay, Pellew observing closely...
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    the goulet de Brest and so a fort sited on it controlled the whole of Camaret Bay, with views stretching from pointe du Grand Gouin (to the southwest)...
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    the defences of Brest with batteries and fortifications all along the Camaret bay, from the pointe du Gouin to the Quélern lines (Louis XIV of France had...
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    French of the object of this expedition, and when the attempt was made in Camaret Bay, it was repulsed with very severe loss. After his return from this expedition...
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    The boats of H.M. ships Robust, Doris, Beaulieu, and Uranie cutting out the French corvette Chevrette (20), in Camaret Bay, 21 July 1801....
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  • English Succession she was involved in the unsuccessful operation at Camaret Bay (near Brest). At the end of the war she helped take half a French convoy...
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    still practised, especially through the ports of Le Conquet, Douarnenez, Camaret and Brest. Catches range from crabs to sardines and monkfish. The area...
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  • with the troops under Thomas Tollemache, and arrived with the fleet at Camaret Bay on 7 June, when the land attack failed. Dieppe and Le Havre were then...
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    Battery of Cornouaille Area around Camaret-sur-Mer Southwest; not directly bordering the goulet, but Camaret Bay Batteries of Kerbonn Batteries of Le...
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  • corvette, of 20 nine-pounders and 350 men, from under the batteries in Camaret Bay, near Brest, on the night of 21 July 1801. Lieutenant Losack and Lieutenant...
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    He was one of Carmarthen's companions in the daring reconnaissance of Camaret Bay, and was soon afterwards again wounded. As colonel of the Coldstream...
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  • 1833 Ship State Description Auguste Virginie  France The ship sank in Camaret Bay. Augustine  France The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Havre de...
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  • July Boat Service 1801 1801, 21 July 9 Beaulieu  • Doris  • Uranie  • Ville de Paris Cutting out of the French naval corvette Chevrette in Camaret Bay....
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    The Battle of Bantry Bay was a naval engagement fought on 11 May 1689, a week before the declaration of the Nine Years' War. The English fleet was commanded...
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  • leaky condition. Joseph Marie  France The brig was driven ashore in Camaret Bay. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom to the...
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  • Hartlepool, County Durham. General Lamarque  France The ship was lost in Camaret Bay with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Sunderland...
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  • defences of the goulet de Brest, forbidding ships from entering the bay of Camaret-sur-Mer. The site had been occupied by the military since 1694 (a battery...
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    year he took Brest. In 1593 part of the Juan del Águila army landed on Camaret and built "La Pointe des Espagnols" (The Tip of the Spaniards) fort in...
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    in Camaret-sur-Mer, Finistère. It is an 18m-high polygonal defensive tower built from 1693 to 1695 using a plan by Vauban on the Sillon at Camaret-sur-Mer...
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  • 1693-06-27  England  Dutch Republic Victory Nine Years' War Battle of Camaret 1694-06-18 1694-06-18  England  Dutch Republic Victory Nine Years' War...
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    Bay, Maryland. Green Jacket Shoal, Rhode Island New South Wales: Stockton Breakwater (Newcastle) Homebush Bay Ships' Graveyard (Sydney) Pindimar Bay Ships'...
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    Pondichéry Naval battles Bantry Bay Beachy Head Alicante Barfleur and La Hogue Barfleur Cherbourg La Hogue Lagos Camaret Dieppe Texel Dunkirk Dogger Bank...
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    Concarneau (Breton: Konk-Kerne, meaning "Bay of Cornouaille") is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in Northwestern France. Concarneau...
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