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Old 05-03-17, 11:41 AM   #1879
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Default On the true nature of picking the right route to rout your foe
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Originally Posted by nippelspanner
1898 US Admiral George Dewey commands "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" as US route Spanish fleet at Manila.
That's 'rout' not 'route' BBY unless 'purple prose' is 'poetic license'...of course Dewey spoke that (at 05:41 AM!!) that enroute to Manila. He couldn't say "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" as with Farragut at Mobile Bay...as he had carefully chosen the unmined south channel route into Manila Bay...uprooting the Spanish dominion of the Philippines- one of history's most decisive naval battles. < Dewey's monument at Union Square, San Francisco... where I go to the bank ....every other night!Of course ADM Farragut has an album (and a tribute band) named after him; and so lingers longer in the public consiousness: <now that's poetic license!
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