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English: Map of the Battle of Basque Roads, 1809; a naval battle of the Napoleonic wars fought between the British and the French. The map illustrates the position of the anchored French fleet south of the Île-d'Aix shortly before the British launched a fire ship attack on the night of 11 April.
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  • Detailed plan of attack on Aix Roads, engraved by Simpkin after original by Fairfax published by Joyce Gold (1809), (from the Naval Chronicle, Vol XII)
  • Clowes, William Laird (1997 [1900]) The Royal Navy, A History from the Earliest Times to 1900, Volume V, Chatham Publishing
  • Cordingly, David (2007) Cochrane the Dauntless, London: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • James, William (1826) The Naval History of Great Britain, Volume 5, 1808–1811, Harding, Lepard, and Co

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