Diedrich, though a German, understood it.

He returned to his flagship.

What he saw next morning was the British cruiser in a new place, interposed between Dewey and himself.

Once more, he understood; and he and his squadron sailed off; and it was soon after this incident that the disappointed Kaiser wrote that, if only his fleet had been larger, he would have taken us by the scruff of the neck.
Tell these things to the next man you hear talking about George III or the Alabama.

You may meet him in front of a bulletin board, or in a drawing-room.