appuyée, rested, had turned one end of it towards

Pag'e 43. — i. de douze, of twelve-pounders.

Pag'e 44. — i . branle-bas, clearing, preparing for action.

2. de haut-bord, cf. page 7, note i. Nelson states in his officiai report that he had fourteen ships of the line, thirteen of which carried seventy-four guns each, and one only fifty. But as one of the French ships carried one hundred and twenty guns, and two others (Nelson says three) carried eighty guns each, the armament of the French was greater than that of the English.