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Fighting Instructions
British naval code
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- In naval warfare: The age of fighting sail
These Fighting Instructions, though soundly conceived when first issued in 1653, were unsuited to this new opponent, for the implementing system of signals was unimaginative and constraining. Indeed, the two most admired tactical writers of the day, Paul Hoste and Sébastien François Bigot de Morogues, were…
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