Sixty boats conveyed the troops to the coast.

Mackay was sent on shore first with the British regiments.
The Prince soon followed.

He landed where the quay of Brixham now stands.

The whole aspect of the place has been altered.

Where we now see a port crowded with shipping, and a market place swarming with buyers and sellers, the waves then broke on a desolate beach: but a fragment of the rock on which the deliverer stepped from his boat has been carefully preserved, and is set up as an object of public veneration in the centre of that busy wharf.
As soon as the Prince had planted his foot on dry ground he called for horses.