Order of Battle
| Captain Pym's squadron | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Sirius | Fifth rate | 36 | Captain Samuel Pym | 0 | 0 | 0 | Scuttled to avoid capture. | |||
| HMS Iphigenia | Fifth rate | 36 | Captain Henry Lambert | 5 | 13 | 18 | Surrendered on 27 August. | |||
| HMS Nereide | Fifth rate | 32 | Captain Nesbit Willoughby | 92 | 130 | 222 | Surrendered on 24 August | |||
| HMS Magicienne | Fifth rate | 32 | Captain Lucius Curtis | 8 | 20 | 28 | Scuttled to avoid capture. | |||
| Casualties: 105 killed, 163 wounded, 268 total, all survivors captured. | ||||||||||
| Captain Duperré's squadron | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bellone | Fifth rate | 40 | Captain Guy-Victor Duperré | 13 | 35 | 48 | ||||
| Minerve | Fifth rate | 48 | Captain Pierre Bouvet | 15 | 42 | 57 | ||||
| Victor | Corvette | 18 | Lieutenant Nicolas Morice Replaced by Henri Moisson |
4 | 1 | 5 | ||||
| Ceylan | Captured East Indiaman | 26 | Lieutenant Vincent Moulac | 4 | 19 | 23 | ||||
| Windham | Captured East Indiaman | 26 | Ensign Darod | 0 | 0 | 0 | Captured by HMS Sirius on 21 August. | |||
| Casualties: 36 killed, 112 wounded. | ||||||||||
| Commodore Hamelin's reinforcements | ||||||||||
| Vénus | Fifth rate | 40 | Commodore Jacques Hamelin | — | — | — | ||||
| Manche | Fifth rate | 40 | Captain Jean Dornal de Guy | — | — | — | ||||
| Astrée | Fifth rate | 40 | Captain René Le Marant | — | — | — | ||||
| Entreprenant | Brig | 16 | Captain Pierre Bouvet | — | — | — | ||||
| Sources: Macmillan pp. 29–37, James pp. 273–289 | ||||||||||
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