General quarters
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title:
General quarters
text:
General quarters, battle stations, or action stations is an announcement made aboard a naval warship to signal that all hands aboard a ship must go to battle stations as quickly as possible. According to The Encyclopedia of War, formerly "[i]n naval service, the phrase 'beat to quarters' indicated a particular kind of drum roll that ordered sailors to their posts for a fight where some would load and prepare to fire the ship's guns and others would arm with muskets and ascend the rigging as shar
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Announcement made aboard a naval warship
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_quarters
date created:
2004-03-19T04:03:03Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T03:02:57Z
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