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"I was between the devil and the deep sea."

The Royal Navy's nightmare was that a powerful French fleet would break out of blockade and fall upon inferior blockading squadrons down the coast, destroying Royal Navy squadrons while a combined Franco-Spanish fleet only gets larger and larger.

Bruix almost pulled it off.  He arrived at Cadiz.  Admiral Lord Keith was blockading with 15 ships of the line.  Bruix had 25 ships of the line and there were 21 Spanish ships in Cadiz, ready to sail.  The French and English lines of battle parallel each other.  Keith determined to keep the French out of Cadiz.  The French have the weather gauge in a rising westerly gale.