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"Il n'y a rien dans l'histoire du monde de comparable aux forces navales de l'Angleterre,
"Il n'y a rien dans l'histoire du monde de comparable aux forces navales de l'Angleterre,
The five rear ships of the enemy would each have two opponents close aboard. The leading French ship on the weather side was to be kept farther off, so that while attacking the sixth Englishman she could "contain" the van ships if they attempted to reinforce the rear by tacking. Troude: Batailles Navales. Between four and five hundred yards.
To remedy the difficulty the complements were filled up with coast-guard militia, with marine troops until then employed only to form the guards of the ships, and finally with what were called 'novices volontaires, who were landsmen recruited by bounties. It may be imagined what crews were formed with such elements." Troude, Batailles Navales, vol. ii. p. 202.
Ledyard, vol ii. p. 599; Campbell: Lives of the Admirals. See also letter of Sir Richard Haddock, Naval Chronicle, vol. xvii. p. 121. Hoste: Naval Tactics. See Map, p. 107. Martin: History of France. Brandt: Life of De Ruyter. Campbell: Lives of the Admirals. Troude: Batailles Navales de la France, year 1673. Ibid. Troude: Batailles Navales de la France, year 1673.
The British account differs materially as to the cause of the distance separating the two rears. Such contradictions are common, and, except for a particular purpose, need not to be reconciled. Alms seems to have been not only a first-rate seaman, but an officer capable of resolute and independent action; his account is probably correct. Troude: Batailles Navales.
Clerk: Naval Tactics. Jurien de la Gravière: Guerres Maritimes. Mahon: History of England. Mahon: History of England. For these, see Troude: Batailles Navales. See Plate VIII. Troude: Batailles Navales de la France. Lapeyrouse-Bonfils. Mahon: History of England. Campbell: Lives of the Admirals. Mahon: History of England. Martin: History of France. Martin: History of France.
Others of the condemned men bore fair characters; and even Richard Norris, who absconded to avoid trial, had been of respectable repute. Troude: Batailles Navales de la France
This advantage would be gained by a loss of ground to leeward and consequent disorder in the line; which, if the act were repeated by several ships, could only be restored by the whole line keeping away. Davies: History of Holland. Martin: History of France. Gougeard: Marine de Guerre. Troude: Batailles Navales.
Rodney's Life, vol. ii. p. 242. Chevalier, p. 311. Kerguelen: Guerre Maritime de 1778. Letter of De Grasse to Kerguelen, p. 263. Troude: Batailles Navales.
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