A viewer's description of aggressive gunnery prompts a short historiographic correction. Striking first and continuing the attack became a durable British naval method, with the decisive emphasis placed on Howard of Effingham. Drake and Raleigh are more famous associations, but the answer credits Howard with establishing the tradition. This distinction shows how institutional practices can become attached to the wrong individual commanders.
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Howard of Effingham and the hit-first tradition
The Royal Navy's hit-first, hit-hard tradition reaches back to Howard of Effingham as well as Drake and Raleigh.