On sea England was now showing the world how she still could fight. Following the desperate struggle off Sardinia, in which Italy had rendered us such valuable help, our Mediterranean Squadron attacked the French Fleet off Cape Tresforcas, on the coast of Morocco, and after a terrific battle, extending over two days, defeated them with heavy loss, several of the enemy's vessels being torpedoed and sunk, two of them rammed, and one so badly damaged that her captain ran her ashore on Alboran Island. After this hard-earned victory, our Squadron passed out of the Mediterranean, and, returning home, had joined hands with the battered remnant of our Channel Fleet, now reinforced by several vessels recalled from foreign stations. Therefore, while the enemy marched upon London, we had collected our naval strength on the south coast, and at length made a final descent upon the enemy in British waters. The British vessels that passed Beachy Head coming up Channel on the night of the bombardment of London included the _Empress of India_, _Inflexible_, _Nile_, _Trafalgar_, _Magnificent_, _Hood_, _Warspite_, _Dreadnought_, _Camperdown_, _Blenheim_, _Barham_, _Benbow_, _Monarch_, _Anson_, _Immortalité_, and _Royal Sovereign_, with four of the new cruisers built under the Spencer programme, viz. the _Terrible_, _Powerful_, _Doris_, and _Isis_, and a number of smaller vessels, torpedo boats, and "destroyers." At the same hour that our vessels were passing Beachy Head, the Coastguard at Sandwich Battery were suddenly alarmed by electric signals being flashed from a number of warships that were slowly passing the Gull Stream revolving light towards the Downs. The sensation these lights caused among the Coastguard and Artillery was immediately dispelled when it was discovered that the warships were not hostile, but friendly; that the Kaiser had sent a German Squadron, in two divisions, to assist us, and that these vessels were on their way to unite with our own Fleet. The first division, it was ascertained, consisted of the _Baden_, flying the flag of Vice-Admiral Koester; the _Sachen_, commanded by Prince Henry of Prussia; the _Würtemberg_, and the _Bayern_--all of 7400 tons, and each carrying 18 guns and nearly 400 men; while the despatch boat _Pfeil_, the new dynamite cruiser _Trier_, and a number of torpedo boats, accompanied them. The second division, under Rear-Admiral von Diederichs on board the _König Wilhelm_, consisted of the _Brandenburg_, _Kürfurst Friedrich Wilhelm_, and _Woerth_, each of 10,300 tons, and carrying 32 guns; the _Deutschland_ and the _Friedrich der Grosse_, with the despatch vessel _Wacht_, and several torpedo gunboats and other craft.