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The glorious First of June : fleet battle in the reign of terror
On 1 June 1794, after a week of skirmishing, the French and British fleets came to close quarters in the northwest Atlantic, some 400 miles off the coast of Brittany. No battle had ever been fought so far from land. The French were escorting a American grain convoy to Brest to feed a starving population; the British were bent on destroying the battle fleet of the nascent French Republic. Both sides would claim victory in the ensuing battle; and both had reason to do so. In 'The Glorious First of June' Sam Willis tells, with thrilling immediacy and masterly clarity, the gripping story of an epic and complex battle.