the scene of action. Able thus to remain, while the
British had to retire to Bombay, he sustained the Sultan of Mysore
in his embarrassing hostility to the British; and in the end he saved
Cuddalore by readiness and dexterity despite the now superior numbers
of the British fleet. He was a great sea-captain, Hughes was not; and
with poorer instruments, both in men and ships, the former overcame
the latter.

On the 29th of June a British frigate, the _Medea_, bearing a flag of
truce, reached Cuddalore. She brought well-authenticated intelligence
of the conclusion of peace; and hostilities ceased by common consent.

[Footnote 136: Now Mauritius.]

[Footnote 137: On the Malabar--western--coast.]

[Footnote 139: See _ante_, p. 163.]

[Footnote 140: I infer, from the accounts, that the _Monmouth_ was
well east of the _Hero_, that the French had passed her first, and
that the _Heros_ was now on her port beam; but this point is not
certain.]

[Footnote 141: Expressions in Johnstone's Report.]

[Footnote 142: Charnock, however, says that in 1762, immediately after
receiving his post-commission, he commanded in succession the _Hind_,
20, and the _Wager_, 20. Moreover, before his appointment to the
expedition of 1781, he had been Commodore on the Lisbon Station. But
he had spent comparatively little time at sea as a captain.--W.L.C.]

[Footnote 143: See _ante_, pp. 79, 80.]

[Footnote 144: One being the captured British _Hannibal_, 50, which
was commissioned by Captain Morard de Galles, retaining the English
form of the name, Hannibal, to distinguish her from the _Annibal_, 74,
already in the squadron.]

[Footnote 145: In the plan, Positions II and III, the second position
is indicated by ships with broken outlines. These show the two
lines of battle in the engagement until the wind shifted to
south-south-east. The results of the shift constituted a third
position, consecutive with the second, and is indicated by ships in
full outline.]

[Footnote 146: Previously the British East Indiaman, _Elizabeth_.]

[Footnote 147: Forty-five degrees.]

GLOSSARY

OF NAUTICAL AND NAVAL TERMS USED IN THE TEXT

(_This glossary is intended to cover only the technical expressions
actually used in the book itself._)

ABACK. A sail is aback when the wind blows on the forward part tending
to move the vessel astern.

ABAFT. Behind, towards the stern.

ABEAM. }
ABREAST. } See "Bearing."

AFT. See "Bearing."

AHEA