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Anguilla, Battle of

Years: 1745 - 1745

The Battle of Anguilla is a military engagement that takes place on the British-controlled Caribbean island of Anguilla on June  1, 1745, during the War of the Austrian Succession.

A French force lands seven hundred and sixty men and marches inland but is repulsed with heavy losses by the British, who now counterattack, forcing the French to flee and causing one hundred casualties as well as fifty captured.

"If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development."

— Aristotle, Politics, Book I, Chapter 2