Lucia, and anchored there at three P.M.the 13th.

The same afternoon half the troops were landed, and the rest the next morning.

They seized at once a better port, to which the admiral was about to move the transports when the appearance of D'Estaing prevented him.

All that night the transports were being warped inside the ships-of-war, and the latter anchored across the entrance to the bay, especial care being taken to strengthen the two extremities of the line, and to prevent the enemy from passing inside the weather end, as the English ships in after years did at the battle of the Nile.

The French was much more than double the English fleet; and if the latter were destroyed, the transports and troops would be trapped.
D'Estaing stood down along the English order twice from north to south, cannonading at long range, but did not anchor.