Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Aix, Ile d' (Seven Years' War).

Fought March 4, 1758, when a British squadron of seven sail, under Sir Edward Hawke, attacked a French squadron of five ships of the line and six frigates, convoying forty transports, and drove them ashore on the Ile d'Aix. This delayed the French expedition to North America, and facilitated the capture of Cape Breton.