The loss of the French and Spaniards, by their own accounts, was considerable; the former having three hundred and six killed,-among whom were Captains Moncousu, of the Dessaix, seventy-four, and Lalonde, of the Indomptable, eighty-four,-and near five hundred wounded; five gun-boats were sunk, and others damaged; and the forts, in which eleven men were killed, received considerable injury.
"Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I"
Sir John Ross
The battle lasted from half-past eight o'clock in the morning, when the fort of St. Garcia opened its fire, till two in the afternoon, when the last shot was fired from the French ship Indomptable.
"Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I"
Sir John Ross
A second later, however, the captain of the Royal Sovereign caught the Indomptable in an unguarded moment, and, springing towards one of the electric knobs before him, pressed it.
"The Great War in England in 1897"
William Le Queux