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Broken promises, sunken treasure and a trail of blood The French - with the help of the Egyptian government - this week retrieved the last relics of their flagship, l'Orient, sunk by Nelson at the Battle of the Nile. In 1982, a British group was given permission by the Egyptians to salvage the wreck, said to contain the treasure of the Knights of St John. So how come the French got there first? TOM POCOCK reports
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 7/1/1999; 700+ words
; ...left of l'Orient from the bottom of Aboukir Bay, where Admiral Nelson blew it up...Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, visited Aboukir Bay and remarked that somebody ought to...lunch, I unrolled a contemporary chart of Aboukir Bay and another made a year after the...
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Napoleon's sunken fleet.
Magazine article from: Calliope; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...navigate. Therefore, Brueys preferred Aboukir Bay, 15 miles to the east, because it...1798, Nelson arrived with his fleet at Aboukir Bay. A brilliant strategist, Nelson...underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau, surveyed Aboukir Bay with the French navy. Dumas succeeded...
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Debris solves battle mystery
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 7/17/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Napoleon and his army disembarked from Aboukir Bay in July 1798 and invaded Egypt. Napoleon...a flotilla of gunboats and a fort on Aboukir Island. But Brueys badly miscalculated...stretch of shallows met the deep sea in Aboukir Bay, nine miles east of Alexandria...
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"There must be an easier way," say Carnoustie traders.
Newspaper article from: Carnoustie Guide & Gazette (Arbroath, England); 10/6/2006; 700+ words
; ...service during the closure: Church Street at Aboukir Hotel, Church Street opposite Aboukir Hotel, Church Street opposite Dalhousie Street...Alternatives to closed bus stops; Church Street (Aboukir)- Catch services 40A and 73A at northbound...
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HAIRST HAS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE.
Newspaper article from: The Arbroath Herald Guide and Gazette (Arbroath, Scotland); 7/16/2008; 488 words
; ...following: Tuesday, July 22, 8 p.m., Aboukir Hotel, Carnoustie, The Birlin' and...Nigel. Sunday, August 10, 3 p.m., Aboukir Hotel, Carnoustie, Birlin', Coralea...Jelks. Tuesday, August 19, 8 p.m., Aboukir Hotel, Carnoustie, Sinsheen and Roy...
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HAIRST HAS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE!
Newspaper article from: Carnoustie Guide & Gazette (Arbroath, England); 7/16/2008; 488 words
; ...following: Tuesday, July 22, 8 p.m., Aboukir Hotel, Carnoustie, The Birlin' and...Nigel. Sunday, August 10, 3 p.m., Aboukir Hotel, Carnoustie, Birlin', Coralea...Jelks. Tuesday, August 19, 8 p.m., Aboukir Hotel, Carnoustie, Sinsheen and Roy...
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The full Nelson Every child knows the story of our greatest naval hero. But it's time t o forget Trafalgar - only now are details of his greatest victory emerging from the Mediterranean depths
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/29/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...1798 - they caught up with the French at Aboukir, off the Egyptian coast15 miles east...greatly accelerated if the French had won at Aboukir - for it was Bonaparte himself who was...If things had happened differently in Aboukir Bay that August night, then the nascent...
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Memorial to Lynn men who lost lives at sea in Great War.
Newspaper article from: Lynn News/Norfolk Citizen (King's Lynn, England); 6/15/2007; 605 words
; ...just over a month into the war, three British ships - HMS Aboukir, HMS Cressy and HMS Hogue - were torpedoed and sunk by the...John William Fysh, from North End Yard, serving on HMS Aboukir, also drowned that day. Retired BT engineer Mr Rose said...
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Spencer's treble a reminder of last year's glory days; SOUTHWELL.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England); 11/3/2008; 700 words
; ...this time, he was in fine form, landing a three-timer on Aboukir in the 1m juvenile maiden, Tarkheena Prince in the 1m3f handicap and How's She Cuttin' in the 5f handicap. Aboukir, a tall colt from the Paul Cole yard, made a winning debut...
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Ancient Egyptian cities discovered
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/8/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Menouthis. The discoveries cap a four-year survey of the Bay of Aboukir, 13 miles east of Alexandria. While excavations of what is...texts tell us that the region now at the bottom of the Bay of Aboukir had three major cities: Canopus, its suburb Menouthis and...
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