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Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816

PART IX
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For his original signal he substituted two in MS.

with the following neatly worded significations: 'No.

32.

To break through the enemy's line together and engage on the opposite side.No.33.To break through the enemy's line in succession and engage on the other side.' Had these two lucid significations been adopted by Howe there would have been no possible ambiguity as to what was meant.
[7] Laughton, _Nelson's Letters and Despatches_, p.151.Ross, _Memoir of Lord de Saumarez_, vol.i.
[8] This last mediaeval proviso was omitted in the later editions.

It is not found in Hoste.
[9] Ross, _Memoir of Saumarez_, i.212.Nelson refers to 'Signal 54, Art.XXXVII.of the Instructions,' which must have been a special and amplified set issued by Jervis.


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