The English had just made a descent upon the coasts of Georgia, and taken possession of Savannah.

They threatened Carolina, and even Virginia.
Scarcely were the French ships in trim to put to sea when Count d'Estaing made sail for the Antilles.

Zealous and brave, but headstrong and passionate, like M.de Lally-Tollendal, under whom he had served in India, the admiral could ill brook reverses, and ardently sought for an occasion to repair them.

The English had taken St.Pierre and Miquelon.
M.de Bouille, governor of Iles-du-Vent, had almost at the same time made himself master of La Dominique.

Four thousand English had just landed at St.Lucie; M.d'Estaing, recently arrived at Martinique, headed thither immediately with his squadron, without success, however: it was during the absence of the English admiral, Byron, that the French seamen succeeded in taking possession first of St.Vincent, and soon afterwards of Grenada.