The challenge Competition was accepted Receiving and widely disseminated Dispersal throughout the city , so that when Captain Jean-Baptiste-François Bompart of `` Embuscade '' sailed Self_motion out to meet Come_together Courtenay on the morning of 31 July , the shore was crowded Filling with thousands of sightseers .

After a close encounter Hostile_encounter with French ships in the Delaware River , `` Boston '' eventually escaped Escaping to St John 's , Newfoundland while `` Embuscade '' refitted in New York .