Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY: OUTLINE OF EVENTS IN EUROPE, 1783–1793
- CHAPTER II THE CONDITION OF THE NAVIES IN 1793—AND ESPECIALLY OF THE FRENCH NAVY
- CHAPTER III THE GENERAL POLITICAL AND STRATEGIC CONDITIONS, AND THE EVENTS OF 1793
- CHAPTER IV THE WEST INDIES, 1793–1810
- CHAPTER V THE NAVAL CAMPAIGN OF MAY, 1794, AND BATTLE OF THE FIRST OF JUNE
- CHAPTER VI THE YEAR 1794 IN THE ATLANTIC AND ON THE CONTINENT
- CHAPTER VII THE YEAR 1795 IN THE ATLANTIC AND ON THE CONTINENT
- CHAPTER VIII THE MEDITERRANEAN AND ITALY.—FROM THE EVACUATION OF TOULON IN 1793 TO THE BRITISH WITHDRAWAL FROM THAT SEA, IN 1796, AND BATTLE OF CAPE ST. VINCENT, IN FEBRUARY, 1797.—AUSTRIA FORCED TO MAKE PEACE
- CHAPTER IX THE MEDITERRANEAN IN 1797 AND 1798
- CHAPTER X THE MEDITERRANEAN FROM 1799 TO 1801
- CHAPTER XI THE ATLANTIC, 1796–1801.—THE BREST BLOCKADES.—THE FRENCH EXPEDITIONS AGAINST IRELAND
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CHAPTER VI - THE YEAR 1794 IN THE ATLANTIC AND ON THE CONTINENT
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY: OUTLINE OF EVENTS IN EUROPE, 1783–1793
- CHAPTER II THE CONDITION OF THE NAVIES IN 1793—AND ESPECIALLY OF THE FRENCH NAVY
- CHAPTER III THE GENERAL POLITICAL AND STRATEGIC CONDITIONS, AND THE EVENTS OF 1793
- CHAPTER IV THE WEST INDIES, 1793–1810
- CHAPTER V THE NAVAL CAMPAIGN OF MAY, 1794, AND BATTLE OF THE FIRST OF JUNE
- CHAPTER VI THE YEAR 1794 IN THE ATLANTIC AND ON THE CONTINENT
- CHAPTER VII THE YEAR 1795 IN THE ATLANTIC AND ON THE CONTINENT
- CHAPTER VIII THE MEDITERRANEAN AND ITALY.—FROM THE EVACUATION OF TOULON IN 1793 TO THE BRITISH WITHDRAWAL FROM THAT SEA, IN 1796, AND BATTLE OF CAPE ST. VINCENT, IN FEBRUARY, 1797.—AUSTRIA FORCED TO MAKE PEACE
- CHAPTER IX THE MEDITERRANEAN IN 1797 AND 1798
- CHAPTER X THE MEDITERRANEAN FROM 1799 TO 1801
- CHAPTER XI THE ATLANTIC, 1796–1801.—THE BREST BLOCKADES.—THE FRENCH EXPEDITIONS AGAINST IRELAND
- Plate section
Summary
While the British ships engaged on the 1st of June were refitting, Admiral Cornwallis, on the 22d of the month, sailed in command of Montagu's division for a cruise to the westward, from which he returned to port on the 8th of July. With this short exception, both the Channel and the Bay of Biscay were left unguarded until the 3d of September, when Howe again sailed with thirtyfour ships-of-the-line, five of which were Portuguese, returning on the 21st to Torbay after a tempestuous cruise. The fleet remained in port until November 8, when the “Canada” seventy-four arrived with the news that her consort, the “Alexander,” of similar force, had been captured two hundred miles west of Ushant by a French division of five ships-of-the-line, from which she herself had escaped by better sailing. The British at once put to sea, but, it is needless to say, failed to find the French ships, which had cruised with impunity during their absence; and on the 29th the fleet anchored again at Spithead, a station so far to the eastward as to indicate little expectation of interfering with any of the operations of the enemy from Brest. There accordingly it remained until the 14th of the following February. The protection of commerce was entrusted to squadrons of frigates, whose young and enterprising commanders did much service by capturing or dispersing the French forces of a similar character.
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