What the records say
- When
- 21 Jul 1781
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 45.91° N, 59.97° W
- Description
- 1781 naval battle
- Naval
- yes
Action of 21 July 1781
Naval battle
The action of 21 July 1781 was a naval skirmish off the harbour of Spanish River, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, during the War of American Independence. Two light frigates of the French Navy, captained by Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse and Louis-René Levassor de Latouche Tréville, engaged a convoy of 18 British ships and their Royal Navy escorts.
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- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “combat naval en vue de Louisbourg”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page