Subsequent reports increased alarm on the mainland by telling of French landings in Conception Bay.

The Senegalese tirailleurs particularly distinguished themselves in the attack during the initial French landings on the southern shore of the Dardanelles.

He then returned to England, this time disguised as a merchant, to carry out another survey of the coast for a French landing.

The vaults inside the fort now contain a museum about the French landing in Tamsui.

Despite a widespread belief that French landing was imminent, Wolfe thought that it was unlikely his men would be called into action.

General Ligonier estimated that he would have only 10,000 regular troops immediately available to resist any French landing.

Much of the southern English coast was fortified to repel a French landing.

Work began in 1779, after a failed French landing at St Ouen's Bay on 1 May 1779.

The main event of the campaign were the successful British and French amphibious landings at Duala.

Irish volunteers began to trickle into the French camp from all over Mayo following the news of the French landing.