Battle of Beachy Head

Three naval battles fought off the promontory of Beachy Head on the Sussex coast of England, are known as the Battle of Beachy Head.

  • The third day of fighting in the Battle of Portland, 1653, during the First Anglo-Dutch War, took place off Beachy Head between fleets of the Commonwealth of England under General at Sea Robert Blake and the United Provinces under Admiral Maarten Tromp
  • The Battle of Beachy Head (1690), during the War of the Grand Alliance, was fought between an Anglo-Dutch fleet under the Earl of Torrington and a French fleet under the Comte Anne Hilarion de Tourville.
  • The Battle of Beachy Head (1707), during the War of Spanish Succession was a victory for the French fleet under Admiral-chevalier Claude de Forbin over a British convoy of 54 transports escorted by 4 English ships of line

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