There is a tendency amongst some historians to attribute these tactics to Nelson alone. There was nothing new in his ideas however: breaking the enemy line had previously been achieved by, amongst others, Admiral George Rodney at the Battle of the Saintes (1782); Admiral Adam Duncan had divided his fleet at Camperdown (1797). Concentration on one part of the enemy fleet was a very old tactic and had already been used by Nelson at the Nile in 1798.