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On this Day - 20 November 1759. The Battle of Quiberon Bay, 1759 - Wyllie, Harold

"Where there was passage for the enemy, there was passage for me..." Admiral Sir Edward Hawke.

Today is the anniversary of the decisive naval engagement known as “The Battle of Quiberon Bay”, the defining British naval victory of the Seven Year’s War with France.

The battle, off the coast of France (near St. Nazaire) was mid-point in the Seven Years War. Admiral Sir Edward Hawke had been blockading the French coast, impeding French plans to invade Britain.

Comte de Conflans was to bring his fleet south from Brest to Quiberon Bay to escort the French invasion transports. Bad weather forced Hawke to seek shelter at Torbay, leaving a small force watching French movements. Two days after Hawke departed Torbay to return to his blockade station, he learned that Conflans had put to sea. Moving to pursue, Hawke's squadron closed on Conflan's fleet on 20 November, as he neared Quiberon Bay.

Sailing in close to attack the French, Hawke lost 2 ships and around 400 men; the French losing 7 ships of the line, sunk or run aground, and 2,500 thousand men.

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Banyan

c.1750

Coromandel Coast, India for Western Market

LACMA (Accession Number: M.2005.42)

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Mainland Southeast Asia, 1759.

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Woman Playing the Violin, Seen from the Front and Seen from the Back, Louis de Carmontelle, 1758-59

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Carles III abandonant el port de Nàpols, vist des de la mar, per Antonio Joli. Oli en llenç, 127'5 x 204'8 cm; 1759. Detalls:

El Castell de l'Ou.

Les drassanes de Nàpols.

El Castell Nou de Nàpols, amb el far en primer terme.

El Castell de Sant Elm, al turó de Vomero.

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Release: January 1, 1998

Lyrics:

No, don't stop

Just feel me all the way to the top

With your love there's no empty

Just give me everything that you've got

All alone, I don't want to be

Without you, just within me

Making love to you so have it

I've just got to have it

Don't even think about leaving me

Oh, oh, because

I can't get enough

I can't get enough,

No, no, no, no

I can't get enough

I can't get enough

Don't was it not enough

No, you won't hurt me, just please me

Don't deserve me

And I, I dream of you

All the time that we share and the things we do

All alone, I don't want to be

Without you, just within me

Making love to you so have it

I've just got to have it

Don't even think about leaving me

No, because

I can't get enough

I can't get enough,

No, no, no, no

I can't get enough

I can't get enough

Don't was it not enough

Not enough [Repeat]

All alone, I don't want to be

Without you, just within me

Making love to you so have it

I've just got to have it

Don't even think about leaving me

Songwriter:

No, because

I can't get enough

I can't get enough,

No, no, no, no

I can't get enough

I can't get enough

Don't was it not enough

Cevin Fisher / David Shaw / Markus Wagner / Peter J. Daou / Reinhard Rietsch / Vanessa D. Daou

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Happy birthday to Joseph Fouché! (May 21, 1759)

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A Second Letter from La Fayette's Father

I am quite happy right now because I stumbled about this letter from La Fayette’s father and at first I fought it was a letter written two his sister a few two weeks prior to his death that was included in the online exhibition “LaFayette: Citizen of Two Worlds” from Cornell University. As it turns out, it is a different letter.

This letter is written by La Fayette senior to his mother, who would eventually raise his son, after his death at the Battle of Minden. Unlike the letter written to his sister (July 16, 1759), La Fayette’s handwritten message can in parts actually be seen here.

Michel Louis Christophe Roch Gilbert Motier, Marquis de La Fayette to Marie Catherine de Suat, dame de Chavaniac, July 25, 1759:

DE CHAMBRUN, RENE. “WASHINGTON, SECOND PERE DE LAFAYETTE.” La Nouvelle Revue Des Deux Mondes, 1981, pp. 579–88. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44201764. Accessed 17 Feb. 2023.

Adieu, ma très chère mère. Conservez-vous pour l’amour d’un fils qui ne saurait vivre sans vous et qui ne cessera d'avoir l'honneur d'être avec le plus tendre et le plus respectueux attachement, ma très chère mère, votre très humble et tout obéissant serviteur et fils.

Lafayette.

Je vous prie de vouloir bien assurer des sentiments les plus tendres et les plus vifs ma sœur et ma femme et de faire mes compliments à M. Vidal --

J’embrasse mon fils.

My Translation:

Farewell, my dearest mother. Assure yourself of the love of a son who cannot live without you and who will never cease to have the honor of being, with the most tender and respectful attachment, my very dear mother, your very humble and obedient servant and son.

Lafayette.

I beg you to assure my sister and my wife of the most tender and passionate feelings and to pay my compliments to M. Vidal --

I kiss my son.

It goes without saying, that this is a very personal and therefore very moving letter, especially since it would be his final good-bye to his mother. What I find quite noteworthy beyond that, is the similarity to the letters his own son would write almost twenty years later.

Both men are in a very similar situation; young soldiers, far away from home, entangled in a war against England (even facing off the exact same officer) with a pregnant wife and a young child at home. While the younger La Fayette’s letters appear to be far more outspoken on the subject of the love for his children, I feel like the older La Fayette’s feelings are no less sincere. We have to take into account that there is a much smaller sample size with La Fayette senior than with his son and that he was his own person, with his own writing style and own way to express himself. But even these two letters show somewhat of a consistency. The older La Fayette ends this letter by “kissing” his son. He ends the letter to his sister with saying:

(…) Please kiss my son for me

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The Battle of Quiberon Bay, 20 November 1759, by Harold Wyllie (1880–1973)

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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian. Schiller is considered by most Germans to be Germany's most im...

Link: Friedrich Schiller

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John Henley, English clergyman, commonly known as 'Orator Henley', was a preacher known for showmanship and eccentricity.

Link: John Henley (preacher)

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