of the old Fighting Instructions (_i.e._ Article XX.

of Russell's).
'His lordship in 1782,' it says, 'directed by his instructions that the line [_i.e._ his own line] should not be broken until all the enemy's ships gave way and were beaten.' And this is practically the effect of Article XIV.

of the set we are considering.

In the absence of contrary evidence, therefore, there seems good ground for calling these folio volumes 'Howe's First Signal Book, 1782,' and with this tentative attribution the Explanatory Instructions are printed below.
As has been already said, these instructions, divorced as they now were from the signals, give but a very inadequate idea of the tactics in vogue.

For this we must go to the tactical signals themselves.