La Hague, a roadstead on the east side of the peninsula of Cotentin, in the north of France (not to be confounded with Cape La Hague, q.v.). On May 19, 1692, the French fleet of forty-four sail under Tourville, which Louis XIV. had collected for the purpose of invading England in support of James II., was defeated here by the combined English and Dutch fleets of ninety vessels under the Jacobite Admiral Russell. Twelve large French line-of-battle ships which took refuge in the shallow roadstead of La Hogue were destroyed, under the eyes of King James, by boats' crews led by Admiral Rooke. See Macaulay's History.
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