The Age of Sail: everything you wanted to know
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The Battle of the Nile
Battles were often long drawn out affairs, like what's most likely to have happened. It was quite common for some battles to go on multiple days because you didn't tend to fight at night. The weather played a huge part in most of them, obviously,. Because you were at sea. And an, yes, you're held to, held to account by the weather most of the time.
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