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The destination of the army was as well known to the enemy as to ourselves for no attempt at secrecy had been made, and, as in the case of Anson's squadron, both France and Spain were fully aware of whither it was going. This carelessness, or worse, compares very unfavourably with Cromwell's procedure when he had a similar enterprise in hand. By him the secret of his Hispaniola expedition was most jealously guarded. No one ever knew against what part of the world it was directed, and no one kne...w better than he the advantages of simulation and dissimulation "to lay asleep opposition, and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them^. " The Ministers of a later date had a less clear appreciation of the importance of secrecy in war^. Owing to the various causes that have already been described, the expedition instead of saihng in July did not leave St Helens until October 26th. As Sir Chaloner Ogle's great fleet worked down Channel, 1 Bacon, Essays, "Of Simulation and Dissimulation.
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