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Type of victory

The French strategic goal of resupply is achieved while the battle between the fleets is tactically indecisive. If there is no objection to this description of the results the article should be edited to reflect this, so that the result is: tactically indecisive, French strategic victory.Tttom1 (talk) 03:56, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There was no strategic gain here, certainly not French. Landing supplies does not constitute strategic victory, bearing in mind the Allies wre landing supplies for their own forces farther north. As for deployment of their fleet, the French could not agree on how to utilise their navy in the Irish Sea or western approaches. In the end nothing effective was done, so where's the strategic victory. The correct, and best, description of this battle is a French 'limited tactical victory' (lynn 203). I'll change it later if there's no challenge. Rebel Redcoat (talk) 19:06, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]