Battle of the Basque Roads
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The Battle of the Basque Roads, also known as the Battle of Aix Roads, was a major naval battle of the Napoleonic Wars, fought in the narrow Basque Roads at the mouth of the Charente River on the Biscay coast of France. The battle, which lasted from 11 to 24 April 1809, was unusual in that it pitted a hastily assembled squadron of small and unorthodox British Royal Navy warships against the main strength of the French Atlantic Fleet. The circumstances were dictated by the cramped, shallow coastal waters in which the battle was fought. The battle is also notorious for its controversial political aftermath in both Britain and France.
1809
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, France,
Leon, Leon, León,
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| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
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| event | armed conflict | 1224 | Siege of La Rochelle | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1372 | Siege of La Rochelle | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1372 | Battle of La Rochelle | Kingdom of England, Crown of Castile, naval battle, Castilian Navy | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1372 | Siege of Soubise | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1573 | Siege of La Rochelle | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1621 | Blockade of La Rochelle | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1622 | Blockade of La Rochelle | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1622 | Naval battle of Saint-Martin-de-Ré | France, naval battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1625 | Recovery of Ré island | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1627 | Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré | battle, siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1627 | Siege of La Rochelle | siege, Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, Benjamin, Duke of Frontenay, Jean Guiton, Louis XIII of France | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1757 | Raid on Rochefort | Kingdom of Great Britain, naval battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1809 | Battle of the Basque Roads | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, naval battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1944 | Allied Siege of La Rochelle | siege | Wikidata |
| link | page | Three Decks page@ | Wikidata | ||
| object | watercraft | U-667 | Type VIIC submarine, U-boat | Wikidata | |
| object | watercraft | U-766 | U-boat, Type VIIC submarine | Wikidata | |
| site | bunker | 1941 | La Rochelle submarine base | submarine pen | Wikidata |
| site | fort | Fort de Chef-de-Baie | redoubt | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Fort de Fouras | fort | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Fort de La Prée | fort | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Fort Énet | fort | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Fort Liédot | fort | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Fort Louis | fort | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Fort Louvois | sea fort, fort, tidal island | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Fort Madame | fort | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | 1672 | Fort Lapointe | fort | Wikidata |
| site | fort | 1673 | Redoute de l'Aiguille | fort | Wikidata |
| site | fort | 1674 | Sablanceau and Redoute of Rivedoux | redoubt | Wikidata |
| site | fort | 1683 | Fort Lupin | fort | Wikidata |
| site | fort | 1801 | Fort Boyard | sea fort | Wikidata |
| site | military base | 1665 | Arsenal de Rochefort | shipyard, naval base, arsenal | Wikidata |
| site | museum | Musée National de la Marine de Rochefort | naval museum | Wikidata | |
| site | tower | Fortifications maritimes de La Rochelle | fortified tower | Wikidata | |
| site | tower | 1399 | tour de Moureilles | fortified tower | Wikidata |
| commons | image | Le Regulus attaqué par une division anglaise | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Ile d'Aix, 1809 RCIN 735146 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Aix Roads 1809 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Ile d'Aix, 1809 RCIN 735145 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Basques Road-Thomas Whitcombe-217057 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | 12/4/1809: morning after a fireship attack led by Lord Cochrane on the French fleet at Basque Roads. | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Sternhold and Hopkins at Sea or a Stave out of Time | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Map Battle of Basques Roads 1809 | Commons | ||






