Judge for yourself. The letter Broers is talking about:

“I have told you of this brilliant success ... it is enough for me to tell you that the English have not captured one of our guns ... The enemy has been thrown into the most unheralded retreat ... They did not even have time to set fire to their ships ... They have not burned our stores of wood and rope. I have visited the naval arsenal, and I can assure you that even the worst they have done to us is reparable.”