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Updated: June 2, 2025

Why the rest of the van should also have been led thus astray can be explained only on the ground that Carkett's general views were shared by the divisional commander, a rear-admiral, who, as was proved a year later, possessed high courage of the pure game-cock order, but was wholly thoughtless of gaining an unfair advantage, two against one, by tactical ingenuity.

A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan - Types of Naval Officers: Drawn from the History of the British Navy