The advance squadron has gone, and with it all trace of a containing movement.

There is not even the feint--the mystification of the van.
Concentration too has gone, and instead of the sound main attack on the rear, he is most concerned with attacking the van.

True, he may have meant what Nelson meant, but if he had really grasped his fine intention he surely must have let some hint of it escape him in his memorandum.

But for the windward attack at least there is no trace of these things, and Nelson's masterly conception sinks in Collingwood's hands into a mere device for expediting the old parallel attack in single line--that is to say, the line is to be formed in bearing down instead of waiting to bear down till the line was complete.

We can only conclude, then, that both Collingwood and Gambier could see nothing in the 'Nelson touch' but the swift attack, the dual organisation, and independent divisional control.
There is a third document, however, which confirms us in the impression already formed that there were officers who saw more deeply.