A full and true account of a terrible and bloody engagement at sea, between a squadron of the French fleet and the naval forces under the command of our English admiral together with a particular account of the sinking of three of the French men of war, taking of two, and disabling most of therest [sic], with the great courage and bravery of our English sea-men / in a letter to an eminent merchant in the city of London. J. H. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B23810 of text R33593 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B23810 Wing H66A ocm 13527972

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 eng Great Britain -- History, Naval -- Stuarts, 1603-1714. Great Britain -- History -- William and Mary, 1689-1702. eebo A full and true account of a terrible and bloody engagement at sea, between a squadron of the French fleet and the naval forces under the command of o J. H. 1690 2 649 16 0 0 0 0 0 246.53 F The rate of 246.53 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2014-04 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-10 Sampled and proofread 2014-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A Full and True ACCOUNT Of a Terrible And Bloody Engagement At SEA ; Between a Squadron of the French Fleet , And the Naval Forces , Under the Command of Our English Admiral . TOGETHER , With a particular Account , of the Sinking of Three of the French Men of War ; taking of Two , and Disabling most of the rest : With the great Courage and Bravery of our English Sea-Men . In a Letter to an Eminent Merchant in the City of London . Printed , According to Order . SIR ,

BEing very much in haste , I here give you a few particulars of our Late and Bloody Engagement , with part of the French Fleet , which take as followeth .

Our Admiral with nine Ships of War , cruising off the French Coast , overtook a small Portugeze Vessel , that had a while before been Chas'd by a French Privateer , and after several Questions concerning her Voyage and other Matters ; he was inform'd by the Master ; that he had but six hours before seen about Nine Leagues of Brest , Thirteen French Men of War , design'd as 〈◇〉 was Credibly inform'd in a direct Course to joyn the Thoulon Fleet , whereupon the Admiral , without delay , caused all His Squadron to vere out all the Sail they could , and made right after them : About nine of the Clock the next Morning he happily got sight of them ; at which , the English giving a gallant Shout , made all the way they possibly could up to them ; the French steered away at the sight of our Fleet , as fast as could be ; but finding that twas impossible to avoid Fighting , with a seeming Bravery ▪ at last they turned , and lay by , expecting 〈◇〉 with all the outward R●… olution as could be , within ● Cannon-shot : Our Admir●… at last advancing , gave the Signal of Battel , and followed it Himself with a Gallant Broad-side ; which the French Admiral as bravely returned .

And now by this time our Fleet advancing , they fell to it pell-mell ; and notwithstanding the Disadvantage of Number , they quickly made the French perceive that English Hearts were resolved to run the greatest Hazards , rather than seem to have the least apprehensions of the inequality of their Number ; the Fight however continued obstinate for the space of three Hours , and then the ●… ch Admiral receiving 〈…〉 Shot , 〈…〉 ●nd endeavoured to bea●… 〈◇〉 ; but our Admiral perceiving their Design , made up through the midst of them with such Vigor , that we quickly 〈◇〉 our Selves Masters of Two of their best Ships and had the satisfaction of seeing three more fink down-right before us ; the rest much shatter'd and torn , with much ado , got away , leaving us with our two Prizes , and heartily re●oycing for the present Advantages we had gained , and wishing for the like Opportunities hereafter . This is all at present from yours

J. H.
ADVERTISEMENT .

THere is lately Published a New Play ; Entitusled , The Bloody Duke , or , the Adventures for a Crown ; a Tragi-Comedy as it was Acted at the Court at Alba Regalis , by several Persons of great Quality . This Play , together with those two New ones lately Publisht ; Entituled , The Abdicated Prince , and the late Revolution : Containing , a full Account of the private Intriegues of the Two last Reigns , and the Most Remarkable Transac●… on● that have happened since . Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster .

LONDON : Printed for W. Brown in Aldersgate-street .