Please answer the following question: Information:  - The Nine Years' War (168897)  often called the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg  was a major conflict between Louis XIV of France and a European-wide coalition of Austria and the Holy Roman Empire, the Dutch Republic, Spain, Britain, and Savoy. It was fought on the European continent and the surrounding seas, Ireland, and in North America. It also encompassed a theatre in Ireland and in Scotland, where William III and James II struggled for control of Britain and Ireland, and a campaign in colonial North America between French and English settlers and their respective Indian allies, today called King William's War by Americans.  - This article deals in detail with the action on 19 May 1692 . For an overview of the battle , its background and aftermath , see Battles of Barfleur and La Hogue The action at Barfleur was part of the battle of Barfleur - La Hogue during the War of the Grand Alliance . A French fleet under Anne Hilarion de Tourville was seeking to cover an invasion of England by a French army to restore James II to the throne , but was intercepted by an Anglo - Dutch fleet under Edward Russell , 1st Earl of Orford on 19 May Old Style ( 29 May New Style ) 1692 .  - Barfleur is a commune in the Manche department in the Basse-Normandie region in northwestern France. It is twinned with Lyme Regis in the United Kingdom.  - The Julian calendar, proposed by Julius Caesar in 46 BC (708 AUC), was a reform of the Roman calendar. It took effect on 1 January 45 BC (AUC 709) (shortly before the Roman conquest of Egypt), by edict. It was the predominant calendar in the Roman world, most of Europe, and in European settlements in the Americas and elsewhere, until it was refined and gradually replaced by the Gregorian calendar, promulgated in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII. The Julian calendar gains against the mean tropical year at the rate of one day in 128 years. For the Gregorian the figure is one day in 3,030 years. The difference in the average length of the year between Julian (365.25 days) and Gregorian (365.2425 days) is 0.002%.  - Normandy (pronounced , Norman: "Normaundie", from Old French "Normanz", plural of "Normant", originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is one of the regions of France, roughly corresponding to the historical Duchy of Normandy.  - The related naval battles of Barfleur and La Hogue took place between 29 May and 4 June New Style (NS), 1692 (1924 May in the Old Style (OS) Julian calendar then in use in England). The first action took place near Barfleur; later actions were at Cherbourg and Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue in the Cotentin peninsula, Normandy, France. It was the decisive naval battle of the Nine Years' War, known to the British as the War of the English Succession.  - Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.    After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'action at barfleur' exhibits the relationship of 'instance of'. Find the answer from the choices below.  Choices: - 1  - action  - battle  - calendar  - campaign  - commune  - conflict  - department  - duchy  - edict  - england  - gregorian calendar  - julian calendar  - june  - may  - nine  - region  - republic  - saint  - style  - war  - word  - year
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