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Appointed Rear-Admiral, and was shortly after given command of a small squadron intended to destroy a large number of flat-bottomed boats and stores which were being collected at Havre for an invasion of the English coasts
Bombarded Le Harvre for two days and nights, and inflicts great loss of war-material on the enemy
Takes many more of the enemys flat-bottomed boats and in blockades the French coast as far as Dieppe
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