With this view they set sail on the fifth day of July.

They bombarded Dieppe, and reduced the greatest part of the town to ashes.

Thence they steered to Havre-de-Grace, which met with the same fate.

They harassed the French troops who marched after them along shore.

They alarmed the whole coast, and filled every town with such consternation that they would have been abandoned by the inhabitants had not they been detained by military force.