. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. t the time. 2 Delavall, in his dispatch, calls this ship the Conqiierant; but the Conquerant wasapijarently not destroyed. The true name appears, no duubt, in tJie French p. 356. ^ Kooke shifted his flag for the occasion to the Earjle. 1092.] THE ACTION IN THE BAY OF LA HOUGUE. 355 in shore that only small craft could approach them.^ The boatsof the fleet were then got out, and, with the fireships, they burntsix French ships that night. The troops destined for the invasionof England assisted in the defence; and s
. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. t the time. 2 Delavall, in his dispatch, calls this ship the Conqiierant; but the Conquerant wasapijarently not destroyed. The true name appears, no duubt, in tJie French p. 356. ^ Kooke shifted his flag for the occasion to the Earjle. 1092.] THE ACTION IN THE BAY OF LA HOUGUE. 355 in shore that only small craft could approach them.^ The boatsof the fleet were then got out, and, with the fireships, they burntsix French ships that night. The troops destined for the invasionof England assisted in the defence; and so shallow was the waterinto which some of the ships had been run that the French cavalryrode right down among the English and Dutch boats, and some ofthe troopers were actually pulled from their chargers by the seamensboathooks. On the English side there was very little loss. Onthe following morning the boats were sent in again to completethe destruction, and the remaining six men-of-war were all transports and storeships, which had taken refuge up a. MEDAL COMMEMORATIVE OF THE BURNING OF FRENCH SHIPS ATLA HOUGUE, ETC., 1G92. (From an orUjlnal kindli/ lent bij Captain Prince Louis of Battenlierg, ) creek, were also given to the flames ; and the ex-King James, whowitnessed the whole spectacle, experienced the mortification ofseeing his hopes of an invasion of England, and of a re-acquisitionof a crown, annihilated, and the finest ships of his only allyrendered for ever harmless. Until far into the nineteenth centurythe weather-worn ribs of some of those ships were still visible atlow spring tides in the Bay of La Hougue. In March, 1833,numerous relics were recovered from the wreckage. They are nowpreserved in the Musee de la Marine in Paris. Russells detailed dispatch, describing the affair, and dated fromPortsmouth on June 2nd, informed Nottingham that sixteen French Ihey were also well covered by tlie fire of forts. J A J 356 MAJOB OFEEATIONS, 16G0-171
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