[175] Troude: Batailles Navales.
[176] Between four and five hundred yards.
[177] The English and French flag-ships are denoted in the plan by their exceptional size.
[178] The "Victory," Nelson's ship at Trafalgar, a 100-gun ship, lost 57 killed and 102 wounded; Hughes's ship, a 74, lost 59 killed and 96 wounded. Collingwood's ship, the "Royal Sovereign," also of 100 guns, lost 47 killed and 94 wounded; the "Monmouth," a 64, in Hughes's action lost 45 killed and 102 wounded.
[179] Troude: Batailles Navales; Chevalier: Hist. de la Marine Française.
[180] This remark seems too self-evident to need emphasis; yet it may be questioned whether naval men generally carry it in their stock of axioms.
[181] As always.
[182] That is turned their side to the enemy instead of approaching him.
[183] Chevalier.
[184] Annual Register, 1782.