. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. Greyhound, 16, Capt. Wm. Kiggeus; the Reserve, 48, Capt. Thos. Crawley; and the Hawk,fireship, Capt. Wm. Harman, which may have been picked up by the fleet while cruising, seem to havebeen added. Wheu the French were sighted the Cape bore by S., about 21 miles. 350 MAJOR OPERATIONS, lOGO-171-1. [1692. to the south-west of the AUies, Tourville had the option whetherhe would or would not engage. He had not received the orderto avoid an action ; he beheved that he was expected to fight; andmortification at the manner in whi
. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. Greyhound, 16, Capt. Wm. Kiggeus; the Reserve, 48, Capt. Thos. Crawley; and the Hawk,fireship, Capt. Wm. Harman, which may have been picked up by the fleet while cruising, seem to havebeen added. Wheu the French were sighted the Cape bore by S., about 21 miles. 350 MAJOR OPERATIONS, lOGO-171-1. [1692. to the south-west of the AUies, Tourville had the option whetherhe would or would not engage. He had not received the orderto avoid an action ; he beheved that he was expected to fight; andmortification at the manner in which his previous proceedingshad been criticised inclined him to the combat. Moreover, heseems to have been at first quite ignorant as to the overwhelmingstrength of the Alhes, and to have supposed that not more thanfive and forty ships were opposed to him. He therefore orderedhis whole fleet to keep away together for the enemy, who, , awaited him on the starboard tack in the natural order,the Dutch, that is, being in the van, and Ashby, with the Blue. MKDAli CUMMEMOKATIVE OF THE ACTIONS OFF CAPE RAUFLEURAND LA HOUGUE, 1692. (Fnim III! iirii/i/Ki! kiiHlh/ lent hij Captain Prhicc Loid-f of Battcnhcro, ) squadron, occupying the rear. Supposing for a short time thatthe French might stand to the northward, Russell had signalledhis own rear to tack; but when, soon after 4 , he saw theenemy standing to the southward and preparing to form line onthe same tack as the Allies, he annulled the order ere Ashby hadgone far towards obeying it. Tourville indeed accepted thechallenge in the handsomest manner, when he might have dis-covered a dozen excellent reasons for declining it. When, says Mahan, they were within easy range, theFrench hauled their wind on the same tack, keeping the weather-gauge. Tourville, being so inferior in numbers, could not whollyavoid the enemys line extending to the rear of his own, which
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