The second hi command will, after my intentions are made known to him, have the entire direction of his line, to make the attack upon the enemy, and to follow up the blow until they are captured or destroyed. Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 - Page 317by Julian Stafford Corbett - 1905 - 366 pagesFull view - About this book
| Harold Winter Hodges, Edward Arthur Hughes - Great Britain - 1922 - 260 pages
...Second in Command will in fact Command [his line] and after my intentions are made known to him will have the entire direction of His Line to make the...the Enemy and to follow up the Blow until they are Capturd or destroy' d. If the Enemy's fleet should be seen to Windward [in Line of Battle] but [and]... | |
| Harold Winter Hodges, Edward Arthur Hughes - Great Britain - 1922 - 260 pages
...Second in Command will in fact Command [his line] and after my intentions are made known to him will have the entire direction of His Line to make the...the Enemy and to follow up the Blow until they are Capturd or destroy'd. If the Enemy's fleet should be seen to Windward [in Line of Battle] but [and]... | |
| Edward Keble Chatterton - Naval battles - 1925 - 364 pages
...he was careful to emphasize the following points : ' The Second in Command will, after my intentions are made known to him, have the entire direction of...up the blow until they are captured or destroyed.' Nelson further intimated that he would ' probably make the Second in Command's signal to lead through... | |
| Edward Keble Chatterton - Naval battles - 1925 - 360 pages
...he was careful to emphasize the following points : ' The Second in Command will, after my intentions are made known to him, have the entire direction of...up the blow until they are captured or destroyed.' Nelson further intimated that he would ' probably make the Second in Command's signal to lead through... | |
| Alfred Thayer Mahan - History - 1987 - 660 pages
...well proteets the funetions both of the commander-in-chief and the second), "have the entire direetion of his line, to make the attack upon the enemy, and...up the blow until they are captured or destroyed." The size and cost of the individual iron-elad of the present day makes it unlikely that fleets will... | |
| GĂ©rard Chaliand - History - 1994 - 1126 pages
...on which ever Line the Commander in Chief may direct. The Second in Command will after my intentions are made known to him have the entire direction of...up the Blow until they are captured or destroyed. The whole impression of the British must be, to overpower from two or three Ships ahead of their Commander... | |
| Dudley Pope - Fiction - 1999 - 384 pages
...wrote, then crossed out the last six words, put a comma after "will" and continued, "after my intentions are made known to him, have the entire direction of...the Enemy, and to follow up the Blow until they are Capturd or destroy'd." Nelson was writing his famous Memorandum, "The Nelson Touch," which his secretary,... | |
| Edgar Vincent - History - 2003 - 654 pages
...greatest freedom to his subordinates. Collingwood, Nelson's second-in-command, 'will after my intentions are made known to him, have the entire direction of...up the blow until they are captured or destroyed'. 'The remainder of the Enemy's Fleet, 34 Sail, are to be left to the management of the Commander-in-Chief,... | |
| Michael A. Palmer - History - 2005 - 412 pages
...making signals." Collingwood would bear the heaviest responsibility; he would, "after my intentions are made known to him, have the entire direction of...up the blow until they are captured or destroyed." On the morning of the battle Nelson also entrusted Blackwood of the Euryalus, an experienced captain... | |
| Nicholas Blake, Richard Lawrence - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 214 pages
...columns with an advanced squadron. The second was to separate the enemy's centre and rear from his van. 'If the enemy's fleet should be seen to windward in line of battle . . . they will probably be so extended that their van could not succour their rear. I should therefore... | |
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