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Ushant

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Ushant

French island 18 km/11 mi west of Brittany, area 15 sq km/6 sq mi, off which the British admiral Richard Howe defeated the French navy 1794 on ‘the Glorious First of June’; population (2001 est) 1,000. The chief town is Lampaul.



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For two days the yellow cog ran swiftly before a northeasterly wind, and on the dawn of the third the high land of Ushant lay like a mist upon the shimmering sky-line.
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