 Howe benefited from Montagu 's withdrawal , as his own battered fleet passed close to the scene of this stand @-@ off on 10 June , pushing north into the English Channel . With Villaret and Cornic fortuitously pursuing Montagu to the south , Howe was free to pass Ushant without difficulty and arrived off Plymouth on 12 June , joined soon afterwards by Montagu . Villaret had anchored with Cornic in Bertheaume Bay the day before , but Saint @-@ André refused to allow him to enter Brest until the republican attitudes of the town 's population had been assessed . On 12 June , the convoy from America finally arrived off France , having lost just one ship in passage during a storm . 
 Howe benefited from Montagu <a href='null_genetive' title='1'><mark>'s</mark></a>withdrawal , as his own battered fleet passed close to the scene of this stand @-@ off on 10 June , pushing north into the English Channel . With Villaret and Cornic fortuitously pursuing Montagu to the south , Howe was free to pass Ushant without difficulty and arrived off Plymouth on 12 June , joined soon afterwards by Montagu . Villaret <a href='been_done' title='2'><mark>had</mark></a> anchored with Cornic in Bertheaume Bay the day before , but Saint @-@ André refused to allow him to enter Brest until the republican attitudes of the town <a href='null_genetive' title='3'><mark>'s</mark></a>population <a href='been_done' title='4'><mark>had</mark></a> been assessed . On 12 June , the convoy from America finally arrived off France , <a href='been_done' title='5'><mark>having</mark></a> lost just one ship in passage during a storm . 
Howe benefited from Montagu  withdrawal , as his own battered fleet passed close to the scene of this stand @-@ off on 10 June , pushin north into the English Channel . With Villaret and Cornic fortuitously pursuing Montagu to da south , Howe was free to pass Ushant w/o difficulty and arrived offf Plymouth on 12 June , joined soon afterwards by Montagu . Villaret done anchored with Cornic in Bertheaume Bay tdaday b4 , but Saint @-@ André refused to allow him to enter Brest until the republican attitudes of the town  population done been assessed . On 12 June , thdaonvoy from America finally arrivedoffff France , done lost jus one ship in passage during a storm .