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Battle of Cancale
1758
2-12 June 1758
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Seven Years War (Europe)

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Admiral Sir Edward Hawke and Commodore Richard Howe attacked the Brittany coast, where they landed 13,000 men under Charles Spencer Duke of Marlborough and Lord George Sackville in Cancale Bay, east of St Malo. The raiders damaged the small harbour of Servan, but realised they had insufficient forces to take St Malo and returned home with little achieved.


   
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