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  2. Battle of the Nile order of battle - Wikipedia

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    Battle of the Nile, Augt 1st 1798, painted by Thomas Whitcombe in 1816. The Battle of the Nile was a significant naval action fought from 1 to 3 August 1798. The battle took place in Aboukir Bay, near the mouth of the River Nile on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, and pitted a British fleet of the Royal Navy against a fleet of the French Navy.

  3. Battle of the Nile - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of the Nile (also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay; French: Bataille d'Aboukir) was a major naval battle fought between Britain's Royal Navy and the French Republic Navy at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast off the Nile Delta of Egypt between 1–3 August 1798. The battle was the climax of a naval campaign that had raged ...

  4. Action of 27 June 1798 - Wikipedia

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    The action of 27 June 1798 was a minor naval engagement between British and French frigates in the Strait of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea. The engagement formed part of a wider campaign, in which a major French convoy sailed from Toulon to Alexandria at the start of the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt .

  5. Mediterranean campaign of 1798 - Wikipedia

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    The Mediterranean campaign of 1798 was a series of major naval operations surrounding a French expeditionary force sent to Egypt under Napoleon Bonaparte during the French Revolutionary Wars. The French Republic sought to capture Egypt as the first stage in an effort to threaten British India and support Tipu Sultan , and thus force Great ...

  6. List of battles of the War of the Second Coalition - Wikipedia

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    1–3 August 1798 Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) Egypt and Syria French First Republic Great Britain: British [note 1] key victory 11 August 1798 Battle of Salahieh: Egypt and Syria French First Republic Ottoman Empire • Mamluks: French victory 12 / 23 October 1798 Battle of Nicopolis (Battle of Preveza) Greece French First Republic

  7. Campaigns of 1798 in the French Revolutionary Wars - Wikipedia

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    However, the British were threatened by this move, and admiral Horatio Nelson rushed to the coast of Egypt. There, he came upon the French fleet at anchor and systematically destroyed it in the Battle of the Nile. Without a fleet, Napoleon's army was trapped in Egypt, and the majority would never return to France.

  8. French invasion of Egypt and Syria - Wikipedia

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    This was the start of the so-called Battle of the Pyramids, a French victory over an enemy force of about 21,000 Mamluks. [20] [page needed] (Around 40,000 Mamluk soldiers stayed away from the battle.) The French defeated the Mamluk cavalry with a giant infantry square, with cannons and supplies safely on the inside. In all 300 French and ...

  9. War of the Second Coalition - Wikipedia

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    The War of the Second Coalition (French: Guerre de la Deuxième Coalition) (1798/9 – 1801/2, depending on periodisation) was the second war targeting revolutionary France by many European monarchies, led by Britain, Austria, and Russia and including the Ottoman Empire, Portugal, Naples and various German monarchies.