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Antoine-Jean Gros, Baron
Antoine-Jean Gros, Baron , 1771-1835, French painter. He studied with his father, a miniaturist, and with J.-L. David , whose classical theory he adopted. Napoleon appointed him painter of war campaigns, and his realistic treatment of this subject was much admired. In 1797 he was commissioned to se... Read more
Horatio Nelson Nelson, Viscount
Horatio Nelson Nelson, Viscount 1758-1805, British admiral. The most famous of Britain's naval heroes, he is commemorated by the celebrated Nelson Column in Trafalgar Square, London. Early Life He entered the navy at the age of 12 and became a captain at the age of 20. He saw service in t... Read more
Napoleon I
Napoleon I , 1769-1821, emperor of the French, b. Ajaccio, Corsica, known as "the Little Corporal." Early Life The son of Carlo and Letizia Bonaparte (or Buonaparte; see under Bonaparte , family), young Napoleon was sent (1779) to French military schools at Brienne and Paris. He recei... Read more
French Revolutionary Wars
French Revolutionary Wars wars occurring in the era of the French Revolution and the beginning of the Napoleonic era, the decade of 1792-1802. The wars began as an effort to defend the Revolution and developed into wars of conquest under the empire. The peace obtained in 1801-2 is generally consi... Read more

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Napoleon I
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...way to Egypt. Shortly after landing at Aboukir (Abu Qir), he won a brilliant victory...destroyed (Aug. 1-2) by Nelson in Aboukir Bay. The Ottoman Empire, of which Egypt...defeated Ottoman forces attempting to land at Aboukir (July, 1799). Meanwhile, in Europe...
Horatio Nelson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Toulon. Eventually, the French evaded Nelson. He pursued them to Alexandria, Egypt, and found the French fleet anchored in Aboukir Bay. Now Nelson's careful training of his captains paid dividends when he discovered that the French were prepared only...
Nelson, Horatio
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea ...Shakespearian flourish as his ‘band of brothers’. On 1 August 1798 Nelson found the French fleet anchored in Aboukir Bay, the French Army having already landed in Egypt. Although night was falling, and the French were anchored in a strong...
Horatio Nelson Nelson, Viscount
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...service, he was sent on detached duty to find the French fleet. After a long pursuit the French fleet was destroyed in 1798 at Aboukir (the modern Abu Qir ), stranding Napoleon I and the entire French army in Egypt. Nelson was showered with rewards and honors...
Antoine-Jean Gros, Baron
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...and 1808 he painted his best-known works, The Plague at Jaffa and The Battle of Eylau (both: Louvre) and The Battle of Aboukir (Versailles). His romantic treatment of color and the emotional tone of his works were at odds with the painter's professed...
blindness
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...x2018;Egyptian ophthalmia’, a mixture of trachoma and purulent ophthalmitis brought back by British troops from Aboukir after their withdrawal from Egypt in 1803. The disease quickly spread throughout the country when the disbanded soldiers returned...
Nile, battle of the
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...encounter between thirteen British ships of the line under Nelson , and thirteen French under Brueys, is at the western end of Aboukir Bay. This extends some 18 miles south-west/north-east 20 miles east of Alexandria, close to Rosetta on the Nile delta...
George John Spencer Spencer, 2d Earl
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Camperdown, and Spencer was responsible for the selection of Horatio Nelson to command the fleet that won the famous battle of Aboukir (1798). He left office in 1801 but later served (1806-7) as home secretary. Afterward he devoted himself to literary...
James Saumarez Saumarez, baron de
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the West Indies (1782), with Admiral John Jervis at the victory of Cape St. Vincent (1797), and with Horatio Nelson at Aboukir in 1798, taking an important part in each engagement. In 1801, after an initial repulse, he defeated a French and Spanish...
Moore, Sir John
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...appointed governor of the island for a time. Moore distinguished himself in Egypt during the night-time landing operation at Aboukir on 22 March 1801. As a military reformer, Moore successfully developed light infantry tactics and training methods. In 1808...

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Aboukir Bay
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Aboukir Bay (or Abukir Bay , Abu Qir Bay ) A bay on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, lying between...x2013;2 August 1798. Sir Ralph Abercromby's expedition landed near the village of Aboukir and defeated the French in 1801.
Aboukir Bay, Battle of
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Aboukir Bay, Battle of a naval battle in 1798 off Aboukir Bay at the mouth of the Nile, in which the British under Nelson defeated the French fleet. Also known as the Battle of the Nile .
Nelson Mass
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Nelson Mass ( Nelsonmesse ). Nickname for Haydn's Mass No.9 in D minor ( Missa in angustiis ) (Mass in time of peril), comp. 1798. A legend says that the work celebrates Nelson's victory at Aboukir Bay in 1798, another that Nelson heard it perf. at Eisenstadt in 1800.
Napoleonic Wars
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...northern Italy. In 1798 he led an expedition to Egypt, but the British fleet under Admiral NELSON destroyed the French fleet in Aboukir Bay. In 1799 Napoleon I led an army over the Alps to win the Battle of Marengo (1800) over the Austrians. Britain, apprehensive...
Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...defeat of a Spanish fleet off Cape St Vincent in 1797. In 1798 Nelson virtually destroyed the French fleet in the Battle of Aboukir Bay; he began his notorious affair with Lady Hamilton, the wife of the British envoy to the court of Naples, shortly afterwards...
Nile, Battle of the
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Nile, Battle of the (1 August 1798) A naval battle fought at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, in which a British fleet defeated a French fleet. The French admiral had anchored his...
Moore, Sir John
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...governor of the island for a time. Moore distinguished himself in Egypt during the night‐time landing operation at Aboukir on 22 March 1801. In 1808 he assumed command of the British forces in the Peninsular War, but was killed at Corunna (16...
Delile (or Raffeneau-Delile), Alire
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...on 19 May 1798 as a botanist attached to the expedition. Delile was in Egypt until the destruction of the French fleet at Aboukir and then returned to France, with an important herbarium, in November 1801. He sailed for America in April 1803 as an assistant...
Nile, battle of the
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History Nile, battle of the, 1798. The site of this annihilating encounter was the western end of Aboukir Bay, east of Alexandria. close to Rosetta on the Nile delta. In the evening of 1 August 1798, Nelson sighted Brueys's ships...
Casabianca, Louis
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...Casabianca, Louis (1755–98), a Corsican naval officer who perished with his little son at the Battle of Aboukir Bay , an event commemorated in the poem Casabianca (1849) by Mrs Hemans, often referred to by its opening line...

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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...
"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...
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...
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...
HAIRST HAS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE.
Newspaper article from: The Arbroath Herald Guide and Gazette (Arbroath, Scotland); 7/16/2008; 506 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...
HAIRST HAS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE!
Newspaper article from: Carnoustie Guide & Gazette (Arbroath, England); 7/16/2008; 506 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...
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...
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...
'Lost Fleet' Finds Mark on Discovery.
Magazine article from: Multichannel News; 8/30/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Goddio almost exactly 200 years after its sinking in Egypt's Aboukir Bay. In setting up the bloody confrontation, Sutherland and...history might have been changed had he been aboard the Orient at Aboukir. Napoleon's Lost Fleet, which bowed on Discovery Aug...
Romancing the stone: discovered during the French occupation but seized by the victorious British after six months of desert battle, the Rosetta Stone symbolized the struggle for cultural supremacy between two great rivals, both on a quest for knowledge and archaeological riches. Jonathan Downs tells how exactly the Rosetta Stone found its way to Britain.
Magazine article from: History Today; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...via Egypt had flailed. Nelson savaged the French fleet in Aboukir Bay in 1798 a month after its arrival, leaving the French...made a night-assault on the heavily-defended beaches of Aboukir and swept away all before them, pushing inland towards Alexandria...