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158 still they fought on and on, fiercely, dauntlessly. They must keep away the enemy at any sacrifice.

The strategy employed by the Sirian Admiral-in-Chief was exquisite. Day by day he kept on destroying and hemming in the Anglo-Saxons, driving them exactly where he wanted them to go. Oh, why had they been so slack in their preparations? Such was the lamentation uttered by hundreds of captains when they began to recognise their own powerlessness to turn away those terrible fleets.