He had himself scarcely sprung on dry ground when he received a wound in the thigh from a cannon ball, and was carried back to his skiff.

His men reembarked in confusion.

Ships and boats made haste to get out of the bay, but did not succeed till four hundred seamen and seven hundred soldiers had fallen.

During many days the waves continued to throw up pierced and shattered corpses on the beach of Brittany.

The battery from which Talmash received his wound is called, to this day, the Englishman's Death.
The unhappy general was laid on his couch; and a council of war was held in his cabin.