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The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783

CHAPTER II
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Each figure of a ship therefore represents a group more or less numerous.
[29] Campbell: Lives of the Admirals.
[30] Plate I., June 12, Fig.

1, V, C, R.
[31] Plate II., June 14, Fig.

1, E, D.
[32] Fig.

1, V, C, R.This result was probably due simply to the greater weatherliness of the English ships.

It would perhaps be more accurate to say that the Dutch had sagged to leeward so that they drifted through the English line.
[33] Lefevre-Pontalis.


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