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Battle of Trincomalee
Battle fought between a British fleet and a French fleet off the coast of Trincomalee / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Battle of Trincomalee was fought between a British fleet under Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes and a French fleet under the Bailli de Suffren off the coast of Trincomalee, then Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka), on 3 September 1782. It was the fourth in a series of battles fought between the two fleets off the coast of the Indian subcontinent during the American Revolutionary War.
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Part of the American Revolutionary War | |||||||
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12 ships of the line | 14 ships of the line | ||||||
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51 killed 283 wounded |
82 killed 255 wounded |
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