Battle of the French ship Triton against the English ship Jupiter and the English frigate Médée, 20 October 1778. Painted in 1837 by Pierre-Julien Gilbert (1783–1860).
The Battle of the French ship Triton against the English ship Jupiter and the English frigate Médée on 20 October 1778 took place during the early naval phase of the Anglo-French War (1778–1783), itself part of the wider American War of Independence. In this period of intensified maritime warfare, French and British warships sought to disrupt each other’s commerce and assert control over key sea lanes. The action saw the French Triton engaged by two British opponents, illustrating the often isolated but hard-fought encounters that characterized naval operations in the Atlantic and Channel waters after France entered the war in support of the American colonies. Such clashes, though smaller in scale than fleet battles, formed an important part of the relentless struggle for naval superiority between Britain and France.
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