The Capture of Belle Île was a British amphibious expedition to capture the French island of Belle Île off the Brittany coast in 1761, during the Seven...
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Belle-Île (French pronunciation: [bɛl il]), Belle-Île-en-Mer (French pronunciation: [bɛl il ɑ̃ mɛʁ]), or Belle Isle (Breton: Ar Gerveur, [arˌɡɛrˈvøːr];...
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expedition against Belle Île. An initial assault in April 1761 was repulsed with heavy loss but, reinforced, the British successfully captured the island in...
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third-rate HMS Dragon at the Capture of Belle Île in June 1761, the Invasion of Martinique in January 1762 and the Battle of Havana in June 1762 during...
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Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey (category Knights Companion of the Order of the Bath)
Colonel of the 98th Regiment of Foot (1761), he participated in the Capture of Belle Île, off the coast of Brittany. Next, he served at the Battle of Havana...
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James Inglis Hamilton (category American Revolutionary War prisoners of war held by the United States)
and the Capture of Belle Île. In the American War of Independence (1775–1783), Hamilton fought in the Invasion of Canada and the Battle of Freeman's...
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Francis William Drake (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Bere Alston)
Sir Edward Boscawen, the Battle of Quiberon Bay on 20 November 1759 under Sir Edward Hawke, and the Capture of Belle Île between 4 and 8 June 1761 under...
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Street which was used to accommodate French prisoners following the capture of Belle Île in June 1761. After the old market hall become dilapidated, the borough...
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Maurice Suckling (category Royal Navy personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession)
the aftermath of the Capture of Belle Île in 1761 destroying French fortifications on the Île-d'Aix and went on half pay at the end of the war in 1763...
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served in the Seven Years' War, Williams was killed at Butalot in the Capture of Belle Île in France. Burke, p. 570 Cokayne, G.E., ed. (1906). The Complete...
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the Capture of Belle Île in 1761. In the Royal Marines Band Service, the Portsmouth band and CTCRM band have different cap badges from the rest of the...
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William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe (category British Army personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession)
brigade in the 1761 Capture of Belle Île, off the French coast, and turned down the opportunity to become military governor after its capture so that he might...
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coalitions: Kingdom of Great Britain, Prussia, Portugal, Hanover, and other small German states on one side versus the Kingdom of France, Austria-led...
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HMS Sandwich (1759) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
spring. Sandwich then took part in the Capture of Belle Île between 6 April and 8 June 1761, moving to the blockade of Basque Roads in the following year...
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John Amherst (category Royal Navy personnel of the Seven Years' War)
Boscawen; and in 1761 commanded the 74-gun ship Arrogant at the capture of Belle Île. Afterwards, in 1762, he flew his broad pennant as senior officer...
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George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield (redirect from George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar)
Battle of Minden in 1759 when he was promoted to major-general and the 1760 Battle of Emsdorf.: 385 He took part in the Capture of Belle Île in 1761...
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pennant. In her he had an important share in the reduction of Belle Île in June 1761, and of Havana in August 1762. He returned to Britain in 1763, and...
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Samuel Wallis (category Circumnavigators of the globe)
1728 – 21 January 1795 in London) was a British naval officer and explorer of the Pacific Ocean who made the first recorded visit by a European navigator...
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Sir Thomas Shirley, 1st Baronet (category British Army personnel of the American Revolutionary War)
and in the 1761 Capture of Belle Île. Shirley succeeded his father as Governor of the Bahamas in 1768, and was appointed Governor of Dominica in 1774...
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Olaudah Equiano (category Writers of slave narratives)
Equiano gives witness reports of the Siege of Louisbourg (1758), the Battle of Lagos (1759) and the Capture of Belle Île (1761). Also trained in seamanship...
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Royal Scots Fusiliers (redirect from Earl of Mar's Regiment of Foot)
formalised and it became the 21st Regiment. With the exception of the capture of Belle Île in 1761 during the 1756–63 Seven Years' War, the next 20 years...
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Indian War and then took part, alongside the Royal Marines, in the Capture of Belle Île in April 1761 during the Seven Years' War, before sailing for the...
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Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies)
transferred to the third-rate HMS Valiant and was put in command of a squadron to reduce Belle Isle, which was successfully completed in June 1761. When Spain...
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the Raid on St Malo in June 1758, the Battle of Quiberon Bay in November 1759 and the capture of Belle Île in 1761. He went on to command the third-rate...
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in a number of assaults in Brittany and Normandy during 1758 and 1759 and again in the Capture of Belle Île in 1761. The Treaty of Paris of 1763 brought...
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Green Howards (redirect from 19th (The 1st Yorkshire North Riding - Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of Foot)
England. During the 1756 to 1763 Seven Years' War, it took part in the capture of Belle Île in April 1761, where it suffered over 200 casualties. The next 20...
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returning home, it took part in the capture of Belle Île in June 1761. It then moved to Portugal and fought at the Battle of Valencia de Alcántara in August...
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to "Belle Isle" in honor of Miss Isabelle Cass, daughter of Governor (General) Lewis Cass. The name Belle Isle (an archaic spelling of Belle Île) means...
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Paul Henry Ourry (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Plympton Erle)
the Expedition against Belle Île in June 1761 and in operations in Martinique in February 1762. In 1763 he became a Member of Parliament but continued...
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Street which was used to accommodate French prisoners following the capture of Belle Île in June 1761. It was replaced by the current market hall, The Pepperpot...
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