The force inventory behind the counterfactual is uncertain. British National Archives slips, French documents, and a translated secondary account disagree about ship locations. Naval-History.Net provides a list that falls broadly between those conflicting accounts, so it becomes the working inventory. The source conflict remains visible instead of being concealed behind an apparently definitive order of battle.
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Reconciling conflicting French fleet-location sources
A synthesized fleet-location list provides a working inventory when archival and published accounts disagree.