The battle, however, even though both the French Commander-in-Chief and the Spanish Second in Command[110] and also the big _Santisima Trinidad_ with the Spanish Third in Command,[111] had surrendered, was not yet over. There were still a number of ships of the enemy that were yet apparently unbeaten, besides one group that had hardly fired a shot as yet. At three o'clock, or a few minutes after that, the _Temeraire's_ men had again to stand to their guns. Fresh foes were seen approaching. These were five of the ships of Villeneuve's van squadron under Rear-Admiral Dumanoir. Admiral Villeneuve's last signal had been to order Dumanoir's squadron, which had been cut off by Nelson's tactics and had so far not been engaged at all, to head round and come to the rescue of the centre and rear. There were originally ten ships under Dumanoir's command, but five of them, after they came round, broke away, and edged off to leeward towards where Admiral Gravina (the Spanish Commander-in-Chief, now left by Villeneuve's surrender the senior officer on the enemy's side) was rallying some of the rear ships to try and escape into Cadiz. What befell these does not concern us. Dumanoir's remnant of five (four French ships and one Spaniard) stood along a little to windward of the ships engaged as far as where the _Temeraire_ lay, making it appear as though they were coming down to attack. 'At 3,' says the _Temeraire's_ log, 'observed five of the enemy in good order, starboard side. Sent the men from the quarter-deck guns to assist on the other decks. The _Sirius_ made sail from us, when four of the enemy's ships opened their fire on our starboard side; having but few guns clear of the prizes, cut them loose.' 'While they were about three-quarters of a mile to windward,' says Captain Harvey describing what happened in his letter home, 'they opened their guns upon the _Temeraire_ and her prizes, and for some time I could return no guns; but when those we could fight with were brought to bear upon the enemy, the gentlemen thought proper to haul to a more respectable distance, and thus towards evening with me ended this most glorious action.'[112] Dumanoir's fire did little harm to the _Temeraire_ herself. It mortally wounded one of her midshipmen who was on board the _Redoutable_, and cut away the _Fougueux_' main and mizen masts,--the _Fougueux_ had been cleared away from alongside the _Temeraire_ a few moments previously, and allowed to swing athwart the _Temeraire's_ stern, end-on to Dumanoir's ships as they passed by,--but that was practically all they did. 'Half-past 4,' says the _Temeraire's_ log, 'ceased firing.' The _Temeraire_ had now played her part. It only remained to house and secure the guns.