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Ushant, battle of
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Ushant, battle of, 1778. After France's entry into the American war, Augustus Keppel was dispatched with a fleet of 30 ships to watch Brest. On 23 July he sighted a French fleet of similar size off the Breton coast under d’Orvilliers. Though manœuvring went on for four days and a good deal of damage was inflicted, the result was indecisive, no ships being captured or sunk. Keppel's court‐martial, which acquitted him, became a Whig demonstration.
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Melville's 'White-Jacket.' (Herman Melville)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 6/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...still defiant. White-Jacket's John Ushant, who takes a flogging rather than shave...flogging. But the older ones, led by Ushant, refuse to cut their hair or shave...of the Capitol." The narrator says of Ushant's beard, "Of a Gothic venerableness...
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 "Sunday Tribune (South Africa)")
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A race with a large element of fun.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Tribune (South Africa); 3/2/2008; 700+ words
; ...Jules Verne Trophy. Groupama broke the following records prior to capsizing: Ushant-equator in 6 days and 6 hours. Ushant-Cape Agulhas in 13 days and 8 hours. Ushant-Cape Leeuwin in 21 days and 2 hours Ushant-Tasmania in 22 days and 20...
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MacArthur sets new time to Cape Horn, four days ahead of record
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 1/12/2005; 353 words
; ...record. MacArthur reached Cape Horn from Ushant, France, in 44 days, 23 hours and 36...his pace. MacArthur, who set off from Ushant on Nov. 28, has sailed over 19,000...nautical mile voyage. She needs to return to Ushant by Feb. 9 to beat the record. MacArthur...
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Chaucerian humor in Moby-Dick: Queequeg's "Ramadan".(Notes)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Leviathan; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...White-Jacket, Jack Chase compares John Ushant to Chaucer's Shipman, quotes from the...Prologue," and then asks, "'must not old Ushant have been living in Chaucer's time...and Islamic concerns in Moby-Dick, Ushant can "reason of civilized and savage...
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MacArthur ahead of record pace as storm hits round-the-world attempt
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 12/29/2004; 387 words
; ...her 29 days and 14 hours after leaving Ushant, France, to draw level with the landmark...she said. MacArthur, who set off from Ushant on Nov. 28, has sailed nearly 13,000...nautical mile voyage. She needs to return to Ushant by Feb. 9 to beat the record. Copyright...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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World-beater Ellen sails to single-handed glory.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 2/8/2005; 451 words
; ...the world non-stop. The exhausted sailor crossed the finish line off Ushant, France, in her 75ft trimaran B&Q at 10.25pm doing 13 knots...S): I've done it: Ellen MacArthur crosses the finish line off Ushant, France
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 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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TO ELLEN BBACK IN 72 DAYS; MacArthur sails into record books after round-the-world trip.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 2/8/2005; 700+ words
; ...mile voyage in 71 days, 14 hours and 18 minutes as she passed Ushant, western France. She was due to arrive in Falmouth, Cornwall...official waiting at the top of a lighthouse on the Breton island of Ushant to see her 75ft trimaran B&Q break the record, she...
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Englishwoman sets world record circling the globe
Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze; 2/8/2005; ; 670 words
; ...PST on Monday by crossing an imaginary finish line between Ushant, France, and the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall on the south...whose official watched B&Q cross the line from the Ushant lighthouse. MacArthur was taken aboard a British naval ship...
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MacArthur breaks solo around-the-world record
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 2/8/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...2229 GMT) Monday by crossing an imaginary finish line between Ushant, France, and the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall on the south...whose official watched B&Q cross the line from the Ushant lighthouse. MacArthur was taken aboard a British naval ship...
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Briton Home After Around-The-World Trip
News Wire article from: AP Online; 2/8/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...m. EST Monday by crossing an imaginary finish line between Ushant, France, and the Lizard peninsula on the south coast of England...whose official watched B&Q cross the line from the Ushant lighthouse. MacArthur's journey began Nov. 28. She slept...
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Ushant
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ushant , Fr. Ouessant, island, 10 sq mi (25.9 sq km), Finistère...mainland. A hazard to navigation and subject to intense fall and winter storms, Ushant has several lighthouses and marks the southwestern entrance to the English...
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Ushant, battle of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Ushant, battle of, 1778. After France's entry into the American war, Augustus Keppel was dispatched with a fleet of 30 ships to...
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Ouessant
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ouessant see Ushant .
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English Channel
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...between France and Great Britain. It is 112 mi (180 km) wide at its west entrance, between Land's End, England, and Ushant, France. Its greatest width, c.150 mi (240 km) is between Lyme Bay and the Gulf of St.-Malo; at the east, between...
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George Brydges Rodney
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...captain. In October 1747, in command of the 60-gun Eagle, he took part in Adm. Edward Hawke's victory over the French off Ushant and was cited for gallantry. Two years later he was named governor and commander in chief of Newfoundland with the rank of...
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