Seven ships of the line got into the River Vilaine [lay there fourteen months, under strict watching, till their backs were broken, "thumping against the shallow bottom every tide," and only "three, with three frigates," ever got out again]; eight more escaped to different ports," into the River Charente ultimately.

"Conflans's own ship and another were run on shore, and burnt.

One we took." Two, with their crews, had gone to the bottom; one under Hawke's cannon; one partly by its own mismanagement.

"Two of ours were lost in the storm [chasing that SOLEIL and HEROS], but the crews saved.

Lord Howe, who attacked LA FORMIDABLE, bore down on her with such violence, that her prow forced in his lower tier of guns.