"Naval battle off Louisbourg" redirects here. For the siege during the War of the Austrian Succession (King George's War), see Siege of Louisbourg (1745). For the 1758 siege during the French and Indian War, see Siege of Louisbourg (1758).
Action of 21 July 1781 Combat naval en vue de Louisbourg
Part of the American Revolutionary War
Combat Naval A La Hauteur De Louisbourg, Auguste-Louis de Rossel de Cercy
La Pérouse Louis-René Levassor de Latouche Tréville
Henry Evans † Rupert George Richard Peter Tonge (POW)
Strength
2 frigates
6 frigates
Casualties and losses
6 killed 34 wounded
17 killed 48 wounded 2 frigates captured
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Kedges Strait
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The action of 21 July 1781 (French: Combat naval en vue de Louisbourg, or Combat naval à la hauteur de Louisbourg) was a naval skirmish off the harbour of Spanish River, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia (present-day Sydney, Nova Scotia), during the War of American Independence. Two light frigates of the French Navy, captained by La Pérouse and Latouche Tréville, engaged a convoy of 18 British ships and their Royal Navy escorts. The French captured two of the British escorts while the remainder of the British convoy escaped.
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