Word: quiberon
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...powdered French officers with phony French money printed by the solid Bank of England. These cadres were also supplied by the British with arms and uniforms for 17,000 infantrymen and 6,000 cavalrymen, who were supposed to be waiting for their chance. When the expedition arrived at Quiberon Bay, it found less than half the recruits it expected, its staff work was atrocious, and the expedition was a blood-saturated flop...
...British have a weakness for lost causes like that of Quiberon. There have been others-Barcelona in 1705, Toulon in 1793, Norway in 1940. But the worst of them all, because the job looked so easy and the repercussions of failure were so drastic, was last week's fiasco at Dakar...
...Fleet and practically destroyed by a storm in the North Sea. In 1759 Louis XV's Army waited in Brittany for Admiral Conflans to break the British blockade of Brest, abandoned its plan to invade Britain when Admiral Sir Edward Hawke dispersed the French Fleet at Quiberon Bay. Again in the winter of 1804-05 Napoleon gathered a host of 150,000 men across the Channel, but his indecisive admirals never succeeded in luring the British Fleet away to the West Indies and finally he turned his back and marched off to beat the Austrians...
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