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Title: The influence of sea power upon history, 1660-1783
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer), 1840-1914
Subjects: Naval history Sea-power
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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out, a tendency increased in this caseby the slowness of the fourth ship from the rear, the Pru-dent. The French flag-ship, Ville de Paris, of one hun-dred and twenty guns, bearing De Grasses flag, pushed forthe gap thus made, but was foiled by the Canada, seventy-four, whose captain, Cornwallis, the brother of Lord Corn-wallis, threw all his sails aback, and dropped down in frontof the huge enemy to the support of the rear, — an examplenobly followed by the Resolution and the Bedford im-mediately ahead of him (a). The scene was now varied andanimated in the extreme. The English van, which hadescaped attack, was rapidly anchoring (b) in its appointedposition. The commander-in-chief in the centre, proudlyreliant upon the skill and conduct of his captains, made ^ When a fleet is in line ahead, close to the wind, on one tack, and the shipsgo about together, they will, on the other tack, be on the same line, but not oneahead of the other. This formation was called bow-and-quarter line.
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P1.XIX. HOOD & DE GRASSE.JAN. 25, 3782. FRENCH c=.ENGLISH ==» W!ND, E.S.E. AT ST. CnRTSTOPIIER. 473 signal for the ships ahead to cany a press of sail, andg-ain their positions regardless of the danger to the threat-ened rear. The latter, closely pressed and outnumbered,stood on unswervingly, shortened sail, and came to anchor,one by one, in a line ahead (B, B), under the roar of theguns of their bafilcd enemies. The latter filed by, deliveredtheir fire, and bore off again to the southward, leaving theirformer berths to their weaker but clever antagonists. The anchorage thus brilliantly taken by Hood was notexactly the same as that held by De Grasse the day before ;but as it covered and controlled it, his claim that he tookup the place the other had left is substantially correct. Thefollowing night and morning were spent in changing andstrengthening the order, which was finally established asfollows (Plate XVIIL, B, B). The van ship was anchoredabout four miles southeast from Bas

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