That the few guns of these batteries which were rendered available by the position of the floating defences, repelled, with little or no loss to themselves, and some injury to the enemy, a vastly superior force of frigates which attacked them.
5th.

That the line of floating defences was conquered and mostly destroyed, while the fixed batteries were uninjured.
6th.

That the fortifications of the city and of Amack island were not attacked, and had no part in the contest.
7th.

That, as soon as the Crown-batteries were unmasked and began to act, Nelson prepared to retreat, but, on account of the difficulty of doing so, he opened a parley, threatening, with a cruelty unworthy of the most barbarous ages, that, _unless the batteries ceased their fire upon his ships, he would burn all the floating defences with the Danish prisoners in his possession;_ and that this armistice was concluded just in time to save his own ships from destruction.
8th.

That, consequently, the battle of Copenhagen cannot be regarded as a contest between ships and forts, or a triumph of ships over forts: that, so far as the guns on shore were engaged, they showed a vast superiority over those afloat--a superiority known and confessed by the English themselves.
_Constantinople_ .-- The channel of the Dardanelles is about twelve leagues long, three miles wide at its entrance, and about three-quarters of a mile at its narrowest point.