[1][2] Fought off the coast of Normandy the battle was decisive victory for the Royal Navy and its Dutch allies, thwarting an expected French invasion of England.

West's The Battle of the Boyne, completed the same year, depicted a celebrated victory over French-Jacobite forces during same conflict.

West condensed the complex events of the battle into a single dramatic composition using poetic licence.

Particular emphasis is given to George Rooke on the left of the painting standing upright in a boat wit his sword raised.

The work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C..[4] This article about an eighteenth-century painting is a stub.