Battle of Providien

Battle of Providien
	Part of the Anglo-French War (1778–1783)
	; Plan of the battle of Providien
Date	12 April 1782
Location	Off Ceylon, Bay of Bengal8°15′17.94″N 81°30′47.02″E / 8.2549833°N 81.5130611°E
Result	French victory
Belligerents
France	Great Britain
Commanders and leaders
Pierre Suffren	Edward Hughes
Strength
12 ships of the line	11 ships of the line
Casualties and losses
225 killed and wounded	567 killed and wounded

The Battle of Providien was the second in a series of naval battles fought between a British fleet, under Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes, and a French fleet, under the Bailli de Suffren, off the coast of India during the Anglo-French War. The battle was fought on 12 April 1782 off the east coast of Ceylon, near a rocky islet called Providien, south of Trincomalee.^[5]

^ Clodfelter, Micheal (24 April 2017). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015, 4th ed. McFarland. ISBN 9781476625850.
^ Castex (p. 315) calls this a French victory on account of more severe damage to Hughes's fleet. Mahan (p. 566) and Malleson (p. 26) do not explicitly designate a victor.
^ ^a ^b Castex (2004), pp. 315–19
^ Malleson, p. 26
^ Cunat, p.128

[1] Clodfelter, Micheal (24 April 2017). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015, 4th ed. McFarland. ISBN 9781476625850.

[2] Castex (p. 315) calls this a French victory on account of more severe damage to Hughes's fleet. Mahan (p. 566) and Malleson (p. 26) do not explicitly designate a victor.

[Castex315-3] Castex (2004), pp. 315–19

[Malleson26-4] Malleson, p. 26

[cunat128-5] Cunat, p.128

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Battle of Providien

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