Word: nelsonian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admiral Callaghan struck as his commander would have wanted. It was almost a Nelsonian stroke. At first he brought his battle line to bear on the forward ships of the oncoming Japanese lines. He engaged a Jap cruiser with his main batteries and a destroyer with his secondary batteries, and sank both. The rest of his line swung its guns on to the Jap formation behind...