"Battle between the Héros and the Superb"
Manufactory Petitpierre et Cie French
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The subject is one of the battles that took place in 1782 and 1783 in the Indian ocean between a French squadron under the bailli de Suffren in his flag-ship the Héroes and an English force under Sir Edward Hughes in the Superb, in which the French had the advantage.