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Excerpt from The Royal Navy, Vol. 3 of 5: A History From the Earliest Times to the Present
Anson sailed westward from America with the Centurion, his sole remaining ship, and arrived at Spithead in June 1744. The story of what really happened, and of how the Manilla galleon was taken, will be found on p. 323 of this volume.
Episodes, localities, and individuals are curiously jumbled and confused in the following passage On the lst of June, 1794, the division of the Channel ?eet commanded by Lord Howe attacked and utterly defeated the French ?eet off the Hyeres Islands. In this action Hood played a conspicuous part, and in the following August he was created Baron Bridport, in the Irish peerage. It is true, of course, that a great battle was fought on The Glorious First of June, 1794 but it was fought, not ed the Hyeres Islands, which lie near Toulon, in the Mediterranean, but o? Ushant, near the mouth of the British Channel. The only important action fought off Hyeres during the war of 1793 - 1802 was fought in July, 1795, by a British ?eet under Admiral William Hotham That force was not a division of the Channel ?eet, nor were the French utterly defeated on the occasion. Moreover, Lord Bridport was not upon the scene.
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