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Why did Horatio Nelson use flags to signal in the battle of Trafalgar?
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They had not invented radio or the mobile phone by that time.
Answer Signal flags were (and still are) used for ship-to-ship (and ship-to-shore and vice versa) communication for centuries. This was the only means of getting messages from one ship to another during daylight hours other than by physically travelling between them. At night, signalling was more problematical, and before the invention of signalling lamps and the Morse Code, night signals were very simple (lamp covered 3 times, for instance).
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