N.A.M. Rodger, The Command of the Ocean : A Naval History of Britain, Volume 2, 1649-1815, London, Allen Lane, 2004, pp. 272, ISBN 0-7139-9411-8.
«More and more in the course of the century, and for long afterwards, British officers encountered opponents who expected to be attacked, and more than half expected to be beaten, so that [the latter] went into action with an invisible disadvantage which no amount of personal courage or numerical strength could entirely make up for.»