La Hogue

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

a roadstead on the E. side of the peninsula of Cotentin, in the N. of France; not to be confounded with Cape La Hague. On May 19, 1692, the French fleet of 44 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 90 vessels under the Jacobite Admiral Russell . Twelve large is now the the republic, sh-Gezinan fleet n in 1912, to enforce ernment. Pop. about na), a tribe of North numbering about a ing in a collection of illages, in New Mexico r'-), hare's-tail grass, inacee, tribe Avenen. hairy, annual, tufted flat leaves, leaves, a short vns. Found in Guernted near Saffron Walcommon in southern ts of Asia. (lä häg), the N. W. peninsula of Cotentin, over against Alder Islands. It is 168 feet high. ded with LA N FRANCOIS DE riter; born in 1789. He first 1763 by a successrick," His fame was hy a series of eloquent plays "Mélanie," "Coriolanus." His are, however, his published in 12 vols. Lyceum, or Course in "Literary Correspondin 1801, caused fierce evolution at first but after five refusing to the extremcer of Church work, "Caanked among his pen. He 308. ral Germany, of 100 miles, Lower Lahnhög), a roadstead peninsula of Coter ot to be con On May fleet of 44 seil andor ais XIV. had celof invading Eng- James II., was decombined English and 90 vessels under the Russell. Twelve larga 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.