Ushant
an island off the W. coast of Finisterre; area 20 square miles. Pop. about 2,500. The coasts are escarped and difficult of access; the soil is fertile. The about 2,500. The coasts are escarped and island has two lighthouses and a telebrated sea fights took place between the English and the French in 1778, and Vol. X USHER in 1794. The first was indecisive; in the second Lord Howe gained a great victory.