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It was afterwards discovered that the French ships had all, more or less, suffered, some of those that had taken the chief part in the action being tremendously knocked about, their decks being ripped up by the Glatton's shot; one of them, indeed, sank on reaching Flushing harbour.
The two headmost French ships then tacked, one placing herself alongside to windward, and the other on the Glatton's bow, while the other ships engaged her on her lee-quarter and stern.
During this interval the Glatton's fire had ceased, and one of the French ships stood towards her, in the hopes, probably, of making her their prize, but the British crew hurrying to their guns, soon undeceived them, and compelled their still remaining antagonists to follow their consorts.
A fierce cannonade was kept up, the Glatton engaging on both sides so near, that her yard-arms were nearly touching those of the enemy; the shrieks and cries which arose from them showing the terrible effect of the Glatton's shot though the French commodore, at all events, exhibited no want of courage in the way he fought his ship.
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