389.
This is the first known instance of the use of the term 'line abreast.' In the published account a different term is used.

'By 3 or 4 in the morning,' it says, 'a small breeze sprang up at N.E.and at a council of flag officers, his grace the lord general resolved to draw the fleet into a "rear line of battle" and make a fair retreat of it.' (_Brit.
Museum_, 816, m.

23( 13), p.

5, and _S.P.Dom.

Car.