Majorian, deprived of the fleet that was necessary for the invasion, cancelled the attack on the Vandals.
Courbet decided not to incur unnecessary casualties, and cancelled the planned attack.
"Recommend heading two-thr-ee-zero, flank speed, and canceling the attack on the tanker, sir," the executive officer said.
Treacy was to join them for his own protection, but arrived late, to discover that Collins had cancelled the attack.
The surviving Japanese leaders cancelled the attack after such heavy losses and all aircraft jettisoned their bombs and torpedoes.
Zero hour was set for 03:00 on the night of June 1-2, but at the last moment an order came down to cancel the attack.
The British guns ran out of ammunition, which led Pakenham to cancel the attack.
There was no one at the front with sufficient authority to cancel the attack.
Hitler canceled the attack before any clear outcome.
Xu, believing that Qian was not that ill, cancelled the planned attack.