Lagos, battle of, 1693. On 17 June 1693 off Lagos in southern Portugal, Sir George Rooke, escorting a convoy of 400 vessels to the Mediterranean, was attacked by the French admiral de Tourville with a vastly superior force. One hundred English and Dutch merchantmen were lost.
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