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note says 'These instructions were written in 1780 and afterwards very much curtailed, though the general plan is the same.' [9] Lacour Gayet, _La marine militaire de la France sous Louis_ XV, 1902, pp.

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_ADMIRAL EDWARD RUSSELL_, 1691.
[+From a printed copy in the Library of the United Service Institution+.] _Fighting Instructions_.
I.When the admiral would have the fleet draw into a line of battle, one ship ahead of another (according to the method given to each captain), he will hoist a union flag at the mizen peak, and fire a gun; and every flagship in the fleet is to make the same signal.[1] II.

When the admiral would have the fleet draw into a line of battle, one ship abreast of another (according to the method given to each captain), he will hoist a union flag and a pennant at the mizen-peak, and fire a gun; and every flagship in the fleet is to do the same.
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When the admiral would have the admiral of the white and his whole squadron to tack, and endeavour to gain the wind of the enemy, he will spread a white flag under the flag at the main top-mast-head, and fire a gun, which is to be answered by the flagships in the fleet; and when he would have the admiral of the blue do the same, he will spread a blue flag on that place.
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