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115: 103: 802:, a turn in the weather forced Popham to abandon the first attack. The expedition stayed at sea for another two days before on 18 May a captured ship revealed to Popham and Coote that the invasion craft at Flushing were making haste down the canal for Ostend and Dunkirk. With the weather having improved, it was decided that the attack should immediately go forward. The ships reached their various starting points at 1 a.m. on 19 May, by which time the wind had gotten up again and the sea was becoming rougher. Popham deliberated putting off the attack again, but was stopped in this from intelligence taken from a newly captured 2031: 885:
impossible to get any men off the beach. Coote found his communication with Popham's ships cut off, and on his own initiative attempted to send some boats of troops off to the ships. These boats quickly filled with water as they made way and the men on board only narrowly avoided being killed. Seeing that further attempts to get to sea were hopeless and expecting that the weather would moderate on the following day, Coote formed a position on the sandbanks, facing inland. There the engineers hastily constructed
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argues that as the destruction of the canal gates had the impact they had intended, the expedition was "a thoroughly well-designed, and brilliantly-executed enterprise". The Admiralty was blamed for the loss of Coote, with it being suggested that had Popham come up against less opposition to his plan
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Hearing the news, Coote begged Popham for the landings to go ahead, expecting that by the time their mission had been completed the weather would have quietened enough that the troops could reembark safely. Popham put the landings into effect immediately without waiting for the troopships to organise
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3 miles (4.8 km) east of Ostend. The presence of British troops was not first reported by the Dutch for several hours, and at 4:15 a.m. the Ostend batteries opened fire on the British ships of the two harbour parties. Popham's bomb ketches then began to return fire, quickly setting fires in the
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to the troops as they made their advance on the sluices. As they began to receive heavy damage, Popham started rotating the ships assigned to attack the Ostend batteries so that the distraction could continue on, but the ships then found that as the water around the batteries had lowered they could
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meant that he was still unable to do anything to assist Coote. The French force pushed the British flanks in over a period of two hours of fighting, during which time Coote himself was badly injured while trying to rally the 11th. The decision was then made to capitulate, before which the Royal
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Coote's force then began to make its way back to the landing beach, finding minimal resistance as it did so and having only five casualties. They reached the beach at around 11 a.m., and Popham looked to re-embark them all by noon. The weather, however, had continued to worsen and it was now
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The force stayed at the ready in their positions through the following day and night, with the weather conditions getting steadily worse. News of the attack had since reached the surrounding settlements, and soldiers had been formed together from the garrisons at
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not get close enough to attack, leaving the batteries open to take aim at Coote's soldiers. In order to distract the guns while the mines were brought up to destroy the gates a request for surrender was sent to the commander of the Ostend garrison. Major-General
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Men were sent to ensure that the garrison could not send fresh defenders across from the town via the harbour ferry route, and defensive positions were taken up around the sluices. Portions of the 11th and 23rd light infantry took control of
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Popham only revealed his plans, which had been kept highly secret, to his men once the ships were at sea. Intending to make a quick crossing of the English Channel, the ships were initially halted in this action by a violent
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ashore. The sea was so rough by this stage that he was persuaded by another ship to give up landing his reinforcements in case they were all killed in the attempt. The operation on shore continued, and at 10:20 a.m. the
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The weather at sea continued to worsen after this and Coote looked to hurry the attack. At around 6 a.m. the warships assigned to the east side of Ostend harbour were sent towards the shore so that they could give
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that he was "extremely happy in the success of your very important and very well digested attempt upon Ostend", calling it a "complete success". Despite the failure to rescue Coote's force, naval historian
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were to respectively anchor to the north-north-west and east of the town to bombard it. The rest of the ships and Coote's soldiers would then be left to the main attack, for which Popham attached a
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emplaced there. Five other ships were to ensure that the mouth of Ostend harbour was kept open for the British, and to attack any shipping they found to the east of the town. Two
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town and damaging ships in the canal basin. Apart from one troopship that had become separated during the night, Coote's soldiers were all landed with their equipment by 5 a.m.
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Popham was fully aware that the expedition was dangerous and might fail, and that his part in it was very unpopular with many members of the military. He sent a letter to the
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When it was clear the Coote had surrendered, Popham weighed anchor and moved out to sea. Plans had been made to follow up the Ostend operation with similar attacks on the
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Artillery pushed its guns into the sea to stop them from being captured. Coote's force lost 163 men killed and wounded, with 1,134 men subsequently captured.
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requesting that if he was unsuccessful that Spencer would ensure Popham's subsequent trial would be fair. The force was ready to set sail on 14 May.
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and at Flushing, but these did not take place. Despite the ignominious end to Coote's force, the goal of the operation had been achieved.
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In 1798 the French Revolutionary Wars were ongoing and France had for several years been threatening what would be the first of several
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gates and the new sluices. This would hamper the operational capability of the canal and interrupt French maritime movement between
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themselves, so that the de-embarkation was done out of the pre-arranged order. Coote's troops began to be landed, unobserved, on
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in April then it would have been put into action before the coming of the bad weather and the losses would have been avoided.
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directly opposing the British with other units on the flanks. Popham observed the French attack from his ships but the
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formed with seamen from his largest vessels to bolster it. Another contingent of sailors were assigned to take the
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While Popham's crews had been trained to arrive at their positions in the dead of night without the use of
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gates had been built but left unprotected. Grey put forward the plan on the recommendation of
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then succeeded with some of the Guards light infantry, 23rd and 49th grenadiers, and two
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in securing the approaches to the harbour, despite attacks from a multitude of
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commandeered some flat-bottomed boats and attempted to bring his four
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and sluices were blown up by a mixed party of sailors and engineers.
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were organised to go ahead of the force to show them the way in.
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Intelligence Branch, Quartermaster-General's Department (1884).
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of twenty-seven warships, of which five had been converted into
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be made at Ostend where they could then destroy the canal's
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and Army of Reserve. In April a proposal was put forward by
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and the coastal road. At 9:30 a.m. the missing troopship,
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In order to avoid attacks by Royal Navy warships in the
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Index

Ostend Raid (1798)
French Revolutionary Wars
Ostend
Batavian Republic
Bruges–Ostend Canal
Kingdom of Great Britain
Great Britain
First French Empire
France
Batavian Republic
Batavian Republic
Home Riggs Popham
Eyre Coote
POW
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e
Naval battles
French
Revolutionary Wars

Sardinia
Nymphe vs. Cléopâtre
Embuscade vs. Boston
Toulon
1st Genoa
Crescent vs. RĂ©union
Guernsey
May 1794
Ushant
Alexander
Den Helder

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