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    Just to be clear the book linked is a treatise on the tactics of fleet actions during the 1730s to 1790s, the period of British failures on a strategic level, as well as some inconclusive or marginal fleet actions - with a manuscript of volume one sent to and read by Admiral Rodney used to form the orders for one of his fleet actions and shared around other officers in the fleet afterwards.
    The second volume was written after the first of the 'new' actions with dramatically more success had been performed, but published before Trafalgar.

    I don't think it touches much on single ship/squadron action, though the principles of manoeuvre would still apply in a simpler form. Important for the context of the thread.
    Last edited by Lieste; 11-17-2021 at 10:49.

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