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Continuing north (a'), she was now much separated. D'Estaing afterwards re- formed his fleet on its leewardmost ship (BC).
Byron's action off Grenada was the most disastrous, viewed as an 1 Byron's Report.
1779.] BYRON'S DISASTER. 439 isolated event, that the British Navy had encountered since Beachy Head, in 1690. That the Cornwall., Grafton, and Lion were not cap- tured was due simply to the strained and cautious inaptitude of the French admiral. This Byi-on virtually admitted. "To my great s...urprise no ship of the enemy was detached after the Lion. The Grafton and Cormoall might have been weatliered by the French, if they had kept their wind, . . . but they persevered so strictly in de- clining every chance of close action that they contented themselves with firing upon these shijis when passing barely within gunshot, and suffered them to rejoin the squatb'on, without one effort to cut them off." Suffren,! who led the French on the starboard tack, and whose ship, the Fantasque, 64, lost 22 killed and 43 wounded, wrote : " Had our admiral's seamanship equalled his courage, we would not have allowed four dismasted ships to escape."' That the Momnouth and Fame could also have been secured is extremely probable ; and had Byron, in order to save them, borne down to renew the action, the disaster might have become a catastrophe.
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Continuing north (a'), she was now much separated. D'Estaing afterwards re- formed his fleet on its leewardmost ship (BC).
Byron's action off Grenada was the most disastrous, viewed as an 1 Byron's Report.
1779.] BYRON'S DISASTER. 439 isolated event, that the British Navy had encountered since Beachy Head, in 1690. That the Cornwall., Grafton, and Lion were not cap- tured was due simply to the strained and cautious inaptitude of the French admiral. This Byi-on virtually admitted. "To my great s...urprise no ship of the enemy was detached after the Lion. The Grafton and Cormoall might have been weatliered by the French, if they had kept their wind, . . . but they persevered so strictly in de- clining every chance of close action that they contented themselves with firing upon these shijis when passing barely within gunshot, and suffered them to rejoin the squatb'on, without one effort to cut them off." Suffren,! who led the French on the starboard tack, and whose ship, the Fantasque, 64, lost 22 killed and 43 wounded, wrote : " Had our admiral's seamanship equalled his courage, we would not have allowed four dismasted ships to escape."' That the Momnouth and Fame could also have been secured is extremely probable ; and had Byron, in order to save them, borne down to renew the action, the disaster might have become a catastrophe.
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