As the nations from which the combatants in this conflict were respectively taken were hostile to each other, and as the men fought, of course, for their lives, the engagement was attended with the usual horrors of a desperate naval encounter.

Hundreds were slain.

The dead bodies of the combatants fell from the galleys into the lake and the waters of it were dyed with their blood.
There were land combats, too, on the same grand scale.

In one of them five hundred foot soldiers, twenty elephants, and a troop of thirty horse were engaged on each side.

This combat, therefore, was an action greater, in respect to the number of the combatants, than the famous battle of Lexington, which marked the commencement of the American war; and in respect to the slaughter which took place, it was very probably ten times greater.