Admiral Lord Howe's victory over the French, 1 June 1794, (c1857). Earl Howe (1726-1799) commanded the English fleet that decisively defeated the French in the Battle of Ushant (the Glorious First of June) in 1794. From England's Battles by Sea and Land, volume I, by Lieutenant Colonel William Freke Williams, published by the London Printing and Publishing Company, 1857.