LORD COLLINGWOOD, 1808-1810 VI.

SIR ALEXANDER COCHRANE'S INSTRUCTIONS VII.

THE SIGNAL BOOK OF 1816 THE NEW SIGNAL BOOK INSTRUCTIONS INTRODUCTORY The time-worn Fighting Instructions of Russell and Rooke with their accretion of Additional Instructions did not survive the American War.
Some time in that fruitful decade of naval reform which elapsed between the peace of 1783 and the outbreak of the Great War they were superseded.

It was the indefatigable hand of Lord Howe that dealt them the long-needed blow, and when the change came it was sweeping.

It was no mere substitution of a new set of Instructions, but a complete revolution of method.