In cruising to form line ahead or abreast at one or two miles' distance.[14] FOOTNOTES: [1] The actual Additional Fighting Instructions used by Rodney for his famous campaign of 1782 are lost; what follows are merely the drift of those instructions so far as they can be determined from the references to them in his signal book.

It should be noted that by this time those used in the Seven Years' War had been entirely recast in a more logical form.
[2] _Cf._ Boscawen's Nos.

15 and 16.
[3] According to Sir Chas.

H.Knowles the regular sailing formation at this time for a large fleet was in three squadrons abreast, each formed in bow and quarter line to starboard and port of its flag.

He says it was his father's treatise on Tactics which induced Howe to revert to Hoste's method, and adopt the formation of squadrons abreast in line ahead.