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Updated: May 4, 2025

Not a single ship fell into the enemy's hands, and the campaign, and indeed the war, ended by Howe taking the mass of his force down to Gibraltar and performing his remarkable feat of relieving it in the face of the Spanish squadron. For the power and reach of a well-designed concentration there can be no finer example. See post, pp. 222-24.

Sir Julian Stafford Corbett - Some Principles of Maritime Strategy