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The first French steam fleet in formation at sea by Édouard Adam, 1884
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The first French steam fleet in formation at sea by Édouard Adam, 1884
The Battle of La Hogue
Artist: Benjamin West (American, 1738-1820)
Date: 1778
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, United States
Description
Seventeen years after Benjamin West settled in England, a London newspaper's review of the 1780 Royal Academy exhibition stated that The Battle of La Hogue "exceeds all that ever came from Mr. West's pencil." In 1692, Louis XIV of France had mounted an ill-fated attempt to return James II, a fellow Catholic, to the throne of England. In response, Britain and her Protestant allies, the Dutch, massed their fleets and engaged the enemy for five days off the northern French coast near La Hogue. Benjamin West condensed the events of the long battle into one dramatic composition that, by employing much artistic or poetic license, is largely propaganda.
Standing in a boat at the left, for instance, Vice Admiral George Rooke embodies heroic command with his upright posture and raised sword. Yet, in order to survey the maneuvers, he undoubtedly gave orders from a distance. Beached in the center distance is the French flagship, the Royal Sun. Actually burned and sunk a few days before this encounter, the Royal Sun is here deliberately refloated -- only to be run against the cliffs so that West might symbolize the French defeat. This complex, multi-figured panorama is an excellent example of West's influential early style, and of the balanced designs and carefully blended brushwork of eighteenth-century neoclassicism.
French fleet April 11, 1940 issue of the French weekly magazine Match
#OTD in 1796 – Wolfe Tone writes in near despair of efforts to land French invasion forces at Bantry Bay.
#OTD in 1796 – Wolfe Tone writes in near despair of efforts to land French invasion forces at Bantry Bay.
A French fleet under General Hoche with Wolfe Tone, 43 vessels and 14,500 men sails from Brest in December and is scattered by storms; 36 ships arrive at Bantry Bay but do not attempt a landing and return to France, thus preventing what might have been an Irish/French victory over the English. Wolfe Tone writes in near despair of efforts to land French invasion forces at Bantry Bay. High winds…
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The French fleet travelling from Cherbourg to Brest, 1858, by Jean Antoine Theodore Gudin, 1861
The French fleet sailing from Cherbourg to Brest, 1858, by Théodore Gudin, 1861
The French fleet sailing from Cherbourg to Brest, 1858, by Théodore Gudin, 1861
Ships of the French fleet on manoeuvres in the Mediterranean, by Niels Carl Flindt Dahl (1812-1865)