On this occasion the French occupied the centre.

The affair was indecisive, if a battle can be called so in which an inferior force attacks a superior, inflicts an equal loss, and frustrates the main object of the enemy.

A week later Ruyter again attacked, with results which, though indecisive as before as to the particular action, forced the allied fleet to return to the English coast to refit, and for supplies.

The Dutch in these encounters had fifty-five ships-of-the-line; their enemies eighty-one, fifty-four of which were English.
The allied fleets did not go to sea again until the latter part of July, and this time they carried with them a body of troops meant for a landing.

On the 20th of August the Dutch fleet was seen under way between the Texel and the Meuse.