Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Raid on St Malo" in English language version.
The transports, having the Guards on board, were ordered to stand in near the shore, protected by three of the frigates. The troops were pulled towards the shore in flat-bottomed boats, when a battery opened fire upon them at short range; but the well-directed fire from the frigates soon silenced the enemy's guns, and the troops soon after landed without opposition, and seized the village of Cancale.
