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It was not a case of the new displacing the old, but of the military element in a military organization asserting its necessary and inevitable control over all other functions. Chabaud-Arnault: Revue Mar. et Col. 1885. Campbell: Lives of the Admirals. Lapeyrouse-Bonfils: Hist. de la Marine Française. Campbell: Lives of the Admirals. Martin: History of France. Martin: History of France.
République d'Angleterre. Lefèvre-Pontalis: Jean de Witt. Martin: History of France. Gougeard: Marine de Guerre. Since the above was written, the experience of the English autumn manoeuvres of 1888 has verified this statement; not indeed that any such experiment was needed to establish a self-evident fact. Chabaud-Arnault: Revue Mar. et Col. 1885.
Chabaud-Arnault: Revue Mar. et Col. July, 1885. Jurien de la Gravière: Guerres Maritimes. Mémoires. See Map of Mediterranean, p. 15. Lapeyrouse-Bonfils: Hist. de la Marine Française. This movement, according to Clerk, was not made by the whole of a French line together, but in a way much more scientific and military.
Campbell: Lives of the Admirals. It would perhaps be more accurate to say that the Dutch had sagged to leeward so that they drifted through the English line. Lefèvre-Pontalis. Jean de Witt. Mémoires, pp. 249, 251, 266, 267. Chabaud-Arnault: Revue Mar. et Col. 1885. The true significance of this change has often been misunderstood, and hence erroneous inferences as to the future have been drawn.
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