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BATTLE OF ST. MATHIEU

The Battle of St. Mathieu was an indecisive naval battle outside of Brest harbour in 1512. A fleet under Lord Edward Howard with forty-five ships made the mouth of Camaret Bay on August the 10th just as a fleet of thirty- nine French ships were leaving Brest. The English blockaded Brest with the French fleet in it. A fleet of French galleys from the Mediterranean entered the neighbouring bay of Blanc Sablon, and the English tried to cut them out but were repulsed with heavy losses and the lord high admiral himself was driven overboard and drowned.
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