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the advantage that this force had to hold the wind
and the arrival of the night at the moment when we were looking
and where we could have flattered ourselves that we would reach it, all this
has created, Monsieur le Duc, that after an hour
of cannonade at fairly long distances, between all
ships of the two squadrons, that of the English taking advantage
of the night and the advantage of the wind, found itself
out of sight the next day at the crack of dawn
no matter what care and order Mr. de Ternay gave to join it.
One of their ships to which the Neptune had given
chase to, having successively of our
of our own, we supposed that it must have suffered some loss.
to have made some loss. All this small engagement
did not cost the king 30 men. He would have had
more success and no doubt a glorious effect for the navy and the
for the navy and the nation, if M. de Ternay had not
had not thought with reason that the principal object of his mission
of his mission being to lead and deposit in America the
America, the troops and the convoys that he had been
entrusted to him. There could be a lot of inconvenience and delay
and delay, in fighting a costly battle