He was brave enough to do anything, but not strong enough to bear the heaviest burdens.

Tourville was in fact the forerunner of the careful and skilful tacticians of the coming era, but with the savor still of the impetuous hard-fighting which characterized the sea commanders of the seventeenth century.

He doubtless felt, after Beachy Head, that he had done very well and could be satisfied; but he could not have acted as he did had he felt, to use Nelson's words, that "if we had taken ten ships out of the enemy's eleven, and let the eleventh escape, being able to take her, I could never call such a good day." The day after the sea fight off Beachy Head, with its great but still partial results, the cause of James II.

was lost ashore in Ireland.
The army which William had been allowed to transport there unmolested was superior in number and quality to that of James, as William himself was superior as a leader to the ex-king.

The counsel of Louis XIV.