Battle of La Hogue

This engraving by Auguste Trichon, titled “Battle of La Hogue,” depicts an episode from the naval Battle of La Hogue in 1692, during the War of the League of Augsburg. The scene shows small craft attacking large warships amid smoke, gunfire, and maritime turmoil, emphasizing the violence of the engagement. The image highlights the spectacular nature of the battle and the confusion of naval operations carried out off the coast of Normandy. Published in 1866 in volume 2 of the Dictionnaire populaire illustré d'histoire, de géographie, de biographie, de technologie, de mythologie, d'antiquités, des beaux-arts et de littérature, this illustration belongs to the nineteenth-century scholarly tradition that sought to give visual form to major military and maritime episodes of the past.