The history of the invasion year may be concluded with a brief notice of the fate of Thurot. He escaped from Dunkirk with five ships on the 17th October, and made his way to the coast of Norway. From thence he came down to the Hebrides early in 1760. Two of his vessels were disabled by weather at different times and left him. On the 20th February he appeared off Carrickfergus in the north of Ireland, and took the place. On the 28th of the same month Captain Elliot of the =Eolus=, with two other frigates, fell in with the three Frenchmen and took them after a sharp fight, in which Thurot, a brave humane man worthy of a better service and a better fate, lost his life. And so went out the last spark of the French scheme for the destruction of England. When darkness closed down on the Bay of Quiberon on the 20th November, the great operations of naval warfare came to an end, for there was no longer any fleet to meet ours at sea. The navy had duty to do both during 1759 and afterwards in co-operating with the army in the conquest of French possessions. But its work, however indispensable, was ancillary, and a repetition of the same tale with the same moral would be tedious. I shall therefore, as in the case of the operations of the reigns of King William and Queen Anne, simply give a list of the expeditions. +----------------------------------------------------+----------+------------+ | Expedition. | When | When | | | Begun | Ended | +----------------------------------------------------+----------+------------+ | Commodore Moore and Major-General Hopson | End of | May 1759. | | attack Martinique unsuccessfully, and Guadaloupe | November | | | successfully. The arrival of Bompart’s squadron | 1758 | | | compelled Moore to concentrate his ships, which | | | | gave the French privateers an opportunity to do | | | | considerable injury to our trade. Their activity | | | | confirmed the British Government in its intention | | | | to deprive them of their ports of supply by taking | | | | all the French islands. No action took place | | | | with Bompart. | | | | | | | |Vice-Admiral Saunders and Wolfe sail from |17th |18th October| |Spithead, pick up the ships left on the American | February | 1759. | |coast, and take Quebec on the 17th August. | 1759. | | |Saunders sailed for home two months later. | | | | | | |