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Withflagsignalshe directed artillery fire on the rebels.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In a battle, a whiteflagsignalssurrender.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They replacedflagsignalsand the telegraph as an efficient means of communication.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The tower signaled weather reports five times a day, and gave emergencyflagsignalsin case of typhoon or sudden inclement weather.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Flagsignalsby day and lanterns by night were used to communicated between ships; attack signals were given by trumpeters on the count's ship.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At closer altitudes a series of preparedflagsignals, hand signals, or even a megaphone could be used to communicate with the ground.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.One conclusion drawn was thatflagsignalswere not a satisfactory way to control the fleet.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Flagsignalswere sometimes intercepted, and efforts to impede them made the occupation of the signaller one of the most dangerous on the battlefield.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A few, basic, singleflagsignalswere designated for particular movements, which would simply be flown without needing acknowledgement.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The origins of this are from the era before radiotelegraphy and radiotelephony, when orders were given byflagsignals.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It involves a display offlagsignalsin the driver's cockpit, which alerts them to the accident.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They also display the blackflagsignalswhen required.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Control of a fleet at this time was by a system offlagsignalsfrom the command ship, which had to be read and obeyed by other ships.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Otherflagsignalsmight be used additionally as circumstances allowed, but once the initial order was given, the ships simply had to follow the movements of their leaders.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This could be addressed by adding inter-ship radio orflagsignalsas another input to the map, but the workload of moving so many bits of data was enormous.
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