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" Command's signal to lead through, about their twelfth Ship from their Rear (or wherever he could fetch if not able to get so far advanced) ; my Line would lead through about their centre, and the Advanced Squadron... "
The History of the British Navy: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time - Page 307
by Charles Duke Yonge - 1866
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The Naval Chronicle, Volume 14

James Stanier Clarke, Stephen Jones, John Jones - Europe - 1805 - 584 pages
...fleet should be seen to windward in line of battle, and that the two lines and advanced squadron could fetch them ; they will probably be so extended, that...command's signal, to lead through about their twelfth Ship from their rear, (or wherever he could fetch, if not able to get so far advanced) : my line would lead...
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The life of ... Horatio lord viscount Nelson, Volume 2

James Harrison (biographer of Nelson.) - 1806 - 522 pages
...enemy's fleet are seen to windward in line of battle, and that the two lines and advanced squadron could fetch them, they, will probably be so extended that...the second in command's signal to lead through about the twelfth VOL. II. 3 Q ship from their rear ; or wherever he could fetch, if not able to get so far...
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The British trident; or, Register of naval actions, from ... the ..., Volume 5

Archibald Duncan - 1806 - 380 pages
...enemy's fleet is seen to windward, in line of battle, and that the two lines and advanced squadron could fetch them, they will probably be so extended, that their van could not VOL. v. D succour their rear. I should therefore probably make the second in command's signal, to lead...
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Authentic narrative of the death of lord Nelson

sir William Beatty - 1807 - 114 pages
...Fleet should be seen to windward in line of battle, and that the two lines and advanced squadron could fetch them, they will probably be so extended that...Command's signal to lead through about their twelfth ship from their rear; or wherever he could fetch, if not able to get so far advanced. My line would lead...
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The Naval History of Great Britain: From the Year MDCCLXXXIII to MDCCCXXII.

Edward Pelham Brenton - Great Britain - 1824 - 588 pages
...cuemy's fleet are seen to windward, in line of buttle, and that the two lines and advanced squadron could fetch them, they will probably be so extended that...rear; I should therefore probably make the second in command a signal to lead through, about the twelfth ship from their rear (or wherever he could fetch,...
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Naval Sketchbook: Or, The Service Afloat and Ashore, with Characteristic ...

William Nugent Glascock - Great Britain - 1826 - 320 pages
...are captured or destroyed. " If the enemy's fleet should be seen to windward in line of battle, and that the two lines and the advanced squadron can fetch them, they will H 3 probably be so extended, that their van could not succour their rear. I should, therefore, probably...
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The life of Nelson revised and illustrated, by the Old Sailor

Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Matthew Henry Barker - 1836 - 500 pages
...fleet should be seen to windward, in line of battle, and that the two lines and advanced squadron could fetch them, they will probably be so extended, that...second in command's signal, to lead through about the twelfth ship from their rear, or wherever he could fetch, if not able to get so far advanced. My...
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The Naval History of Great Britain: From the Declaration of War by ..., Volume 4

William James - Great Britain - 1837 - 408 pages
...should be seen to windward in line of battle, and that the two lines and the advanced squadron could fetch them, they will probably be so extended that...second in command's signal, to lead through about the twelfth ship from their rear, or wherever he could fetch, if not able to get so far advanced. My...
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The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Year MDCCLXXXIII. to MDCCCXXXVI.

Edward Pelham Brenton - Great Britain - 1837 - 778 pages
...enemy's fleet are seen to windward, in line of battle, and that the two lines and advanced squadron could fetch them, they will probably be so extended that...rear ; I should therefore probably make the second in command a signal to lead through, about the 12th ship from their rear (or wherever he could fetch,...
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The dispatches and letters of vice admiral ... Nelson, with notes ..., Volume 7

Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1846 - 864 pages
...that the two Lines and the Advanced Squadr can fetch them8, they will probably be so extended that th Van could not succour their Rear. I should therefore probably make" the Second in Commam signal to lead through, about their twelfth Ship from th< Rear, (or wherever he1 could fetch,...
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