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Itwas no longer a question of whether to make the enemy's trade or his fleetthe primary objective, but of how to get contact with his fleet in such away as to lead to decisive action. Merely to seek him out on his own coastswas to ensure that no decisive action would take place. Measures had to betaken to force him to sea away from his own bases. The favourite device wasto substitute organised strategical operations against his trade in placeof the old sporadic attacks; that is, the fleet took ...a position calculatedto stop his trade altogether, not on his own coasts, but far to sea in themain fairway. The operations failed for lack of provision for enabling thefleet by systematic relief to retain its position, but nevertheless it wasthe germ of the system which afterwards, under riper organisation, was toprove so effective, and to produce such actions as the "Glorious First ofJune. " In the third war, after this device had failed again and again, a new onewas tried. It was Charles the Second's own conception.
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