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vided. These five conflicts were not rendered inde 

 cisive by any overwariness in manoeuvring, for De 

 Suffrein's attacks were carried out with as much 

 boldness as skill, and his stubborn antagonist was 

 never inclined to balk him of a fair battle; but the 

 two hardy fighters were so evenly matched that they 

 would pound one another till each was helpless to 

 inflict injury. Very different were the three con 

 secutive battles that took place in the same waters, 

 on the 25th of April, 1758, the 3d of August, 1758, 

 and on the loth of September, 1759, between Po- 

 cock and d'Ache, 10 where, by skilful manoeuvring, 

 the French admiral saved his somewhat inferior 

 force from capture, and the English admiral gained 

 indecisive victories. M. Riviere, after giving a most 

 just and impartial account of the battles, sums 

 up with the following excellent criticism. 11 



"It is this battle, won by Hawke, the 2Oth of No 

 vember, 1757, and the combats of Pocock and 

 d'Ache, from which date two distinct schools in the 

 naval affairs of the i8th century: one of these was 

 all for promptness and audacity, which were re 

 garded as the indispensable conditions for victory; 

 the other, on the contrary, praised skilful delays 



10 "La Marine Francaise sous le Regne de Louis XV," par 

 Henri Riviere, Lieutenant de Vaisseau, Chevalier de la 

 L6gion d' Honneur. (Paris et Toulon, 1859), pp. 385 and 439. 



11 Ibid., p. 425. I pay more attention to the sense than to 

 the letter in my translation. 



