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Quiberon seen from Spot Satellite. During the Seven Years' War the bay was the site of the Battle of Quiberon Bay (1759) between the French and British fleets. In July 1795, during the French Revolution, Quiberon was used by French Royalist exiles, with assistance from the British, as the base for a failed invasion of Brittany (traditionally a royalist area).
The Battle of Quiberon Bay, on 20 November 1759, was one of Britain's greatest naval victories over the French. The British Admiral Sir Edward Hawke with twenty-three ships of the line caught up with a French fleet with twenty-one ships of the line under Marshal de Conflans seeking to embark an army at Quiberon for landings in Scotland.
Saint-Pierre-Quiberon (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ pjɛʁ kibʁɔ̃]; Breton: Sant-Pêr-Kiberen) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France. [3] The commune occupies the northern part of the Quiberon peninsula, that it shares with the commune of Quiberon .
Background map : extract from File:France_map_Lambert-93_with_rivers_and_regions-blank.svg by Éric Gaba under licence GFDL or CC-BY-SA 3.0 Tracks : a map from Corbett, Julian Stafford (1907) England in the seven years' war, volume 2 , London, New York, Bombay, and Calcutta: Longmans, Green, and co., pp. 407 Retrieved on 21 November 2009.
The Battle of Quiberon Bay (known as Bataille des Cardinaux in French) was a decisive naval engagement during the Seven Years' War.It was fought on 20 November 1759 between the Royal Navy and the French Navy in Quiberon Bay, off the coast of France near Saint-Nazaire.
The invasion of France (also known as the Battle of Quiberon) was a major landing on the Quiberon peninsula by émigré, counter-revolutionary troops in support of the Chouannerie and Vendée Revolt, beginning on 23 June and finally definitively repulsed on 21 July.
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The Canton of Quiberon (French: canton de Quiberon; Breton: Kanton Kiberen) is an administrative division of the Morbihan department, northwestern France.Its borders were modified at the 2014 French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015.