 Accordingly, "Démocratie" and the rest of the 2nd Squadron were sent to Algiers, where they joined a group of seven passenger ships that had a contingent of 7,000 troops from XIX Corps aboard.While at sea, the new dreadnought battleships and and the "Danton"-class battleships and , which took over as the convoy's escort.Instead of attacking the convoys, "Goeben" bombarded Bône and Philippeville and then fled east to the Ottoman Empire.