One of the most famous lines in U. S. military history was said by Admiral George Dewey to Captain Charles Vernon Gridley at the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898: "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley." Gridley fired, but he might have been better served personally to have gone to sick bay. After the battle, Gridley was not in a condition to celebrate, suffering from dysentery and what appears to have been liver cancer. The heat and stress of the conning tower further weakened him. Dewey would have relieved him of command had not Gridley protested.
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