Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Muna January 1755, Howe akapiwa mutungamiri wechina-rate HMS "Dunkirk" uye akatumirwa kuNorth America sechikamu cheboka raitungamirirwa naAdmiral Edward Boscawen: kubata kwake kweFrance "Alcide" kwaiva pfuti yokutanga yakapfurwa muHondo yeMakore Manomwe. Akasarudzwa nhengo yeparamende yeDartmouth muna Chivabvu 1757 uye akava mukuru mukuru wechitatu-chikamu HMS "Magnanime" muChannel muna Chikunguru 1757. Kubvira ipapo kusvikira rugare rwa1763, akashanda muChannel mumakwikwi akasiyana-siyana asina maturo pamusoro pemhenderekedzo yeFrance, achiwana mukurumbira semukuru akasimba uye ane unyanzvi nokuda kwebasa rake mumutsara wezvikepe zvegungwa pamhenderekedzo yeFrance kusanganisira Raid paRochfort munaSeptember 1757. Akakwidziridzwa kuva commodore, ane pennant yake yakafara muHMS yechitatu-yepamusoro "Essex", akapinda muRaid paSt Malo munaJune 1758, Hondo yeSaint Cast munaGunyana 1758 uye
Kurwisa Cherbourg muna August 1758. Akanyatsozivikanwa nokuda kwekuzvibata kwake paRochfort, kwaakanga atora Île-d'Aix, uye akarondedzerwa naGeorge Rodney seanoita mabasa ake "nechigadziro chakadaro uye chakasimba, sezvo chakanyatsomupa kurumbidzwa kwepasi rose kweuto neuto rehondo".