Battle of Lagos | |||||||
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Part of the Nine Years' War | |||||||
![]() Battle of Lagos by Théodore Gudin | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
approx. 100 sail, of which 70 ships of the line 30,000 crewmen[2] |
21 ships of the line | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
500 killed or wounded[2] no ships lost |
2,500 killed or wounded 2,000 captured[2] 90 merchantmen, of which 40 captured 1 English ship of the line destroyed 2 Dutch 64-gun warships captured[2] |
The Battle of Lagos was a sea battle during the Nine Years' War on 27 June 1693 (17 June 1693 O.S.), when a French fleet under Anne Hilarion de Tourville defeated an Anglo-Dutch fleet under George Rooke near Lagos Bay in Portugal. Rooke's squadron was protecting the Smyrna convoy, and it is by this name that the action is sometimes known.