Battle of Saint-Cast

Battle of Saint-Cast
	Part of the Seven Years' War
	; Engraving by Nicolas Ozanne
Date	11 September 1758
Location	near Saint-Cast, France48.6300°N 2.2567°W
Result	French victory
Belligerents
Great Britain	France
Commanders and leaders
Thomas Bligh; Alexander Dury †; George Anson; Richard Howe	Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon
Strength
10,000	8,000-9,000 soldiers and militiamen
Casualties and losses
2,300 killed or wounded; 800 prisoners	300

The Battle of Saint-Cast was a military engagement during the Seven Years' War on the French coast between British naval and land expeditionary forces and French coastal defence forces. Fought on 11 September 1758, it was won by the French.

During the Seven Years' War, Britain mounted numerous amphibious expeditions against France and French possessions around the world. In 1758 a number of expeditions, then called descents, were made against the northern coast of France. The military objectives of the descents were to capture and destroy French ports, divert French land forces from Germany, and suppress privateers operating from the French coast. The battle of Saint-Cast was the final engagement of a descent in force that ended in a French victory.

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