“Those who rise in peace are men of formality and routine, cautious, inoffensive…Hawke represented the spirit of war, the ardour, the swift initiative, the readiness of resource, the impatience of prescription and routine, without which no great things are done!”

— John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

Fisher of Kilverstone (1973), Ruddock F. Mackay, Clarendon Press, p. 265.

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