French Privateering Tradition

A lot of french gunners come from the french privateering tradition, which goes from ivateers being have legalized piracy. British gunners fired at the hulls. So even if you miss, you're going to hit something. You're going rigging, you e cain hit your know, you'r going to hit masts. But also on the day itself, the wind was very weak. All the vessels engaged were travelling at a very slow speed of one knot, one nautical mile an hour. The british fleet was approaching very slowly because of this low windsteet. And some of the spanish commanders watching this happend, watched a signal to come about