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Fighting Instructions 1530-1816. by Julian S. Corbett. Historical Royal Navy Document. Publications of the Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. Including; Orders to be used by the king's majesty's navy by the sea. The adoption of spanish tactics by henry viii. The elizabethan origin of ralegh's instructions. Commonwealth orders, 1653. Mediterranean orders, 1678. The last stuart orders. The permanent instructions, 1703-1783. Additional fighting instructions of the eighteenth century. Lord howe's first signal book. Signal books of the great war. Nelson's tactical memoranda. Admiral gambier, 1807. Lord collingwood, 1808-1810. Sir alexander cochrane's instructions. The signal book of 1816. Instructions given by the Right Honourable the Committee of the Lords and Commons for the Admiralty and Cinque Ports, to be duly observed by all captains and officers whatsoever and common men respectively in their fleet, provided to the glory of God, the honour and service of Parliament, and the safety of the Kingdom of England. 'The business of a commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy's fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible, and secondly, to continue them there without separating until the business is decided), I am sensible beyond this object it is not necessary that I should say a word, being fully assured that the admirals and captains of the fleet I have the honour to command will, knowing my precise object, that of a close and decisive battle, supply any deficiency in my not making signals, which may, if extended beyond those objects, either be misunderstood, or if waited for very probably from various causes be impossible for the commander-in-chief to make. Therefore it will only be requisite for me to state in as few words as possible the various modes in which it may be necessary for me to obtain my object; on which depends not only the honour and glory of our country, but possibly its safety, and with it that of all Europe, from French tyranny and oppression.' Lord Nelson 1803

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