to the attack, Sir Roger Keyes has now revealed how he came to give that signal: it arose from a conversation with his wife on the eve of the engagement:
My wife, walked down to the pier with me te see me off, apparently Guite Unperturbed. She what a bell of a time T hi Trough and her war sure to be the best day for our Gnterprise, as St. George would bring food foriume 40, England, and "she So when the 76 vessels were marshalled under Sir Roger's flag ready for the next morning's adventure he took the step before night fell to make a general signal by semaphore "St. George for England." Carpenter of the Vindictive signalled back "May we give the dragon's tail a damned ood twist." And they did,
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