Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In 1798, the bay was protected at its western end by extensive rocky shoals which ran 3 miles (4.8 km) into the bay from a promontory guarded by Aboukir Castle. A small fort situated on an island among the rocks protected the shoals. [47] The fort was garrisoned by French soldiers and armed with at least four cannon and two heavy mortars. [48]
The ancient cities of Canopus, Heracleion and Menouthis lie submerged beneath the waters of the bay. In 1798 it was the site of the Battle of the Nile, a naval battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the navy of the French First Republic. The bay contains a natural gas field, discovered in the 1970s.
HMS Aboukir (1798) was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line, formerly the French ship Aquilon captured at the Battle of the Nile in 1798 and broken up in 1802. HMS Aboukir (1807) was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1807, on harbour service from 1824 and sold in 1838.
In the Battle of Abukir (or Aboukir or Abu Qir) [2] Napoleon Bonaparte defeated Seid Mustafa Pasha's Ottoman army on 25 July 1799, during the French campaign in Egypt. [6] It is considered the first pitched battle with this name, as there already had been a naval battle on 1 August 1798, the Battle of the Nile. (A second pitched battle followed ...
Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, Comte de Brueys (12 February 1753 – 1 August 1798) was a French Navy officer who served in the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary Wars. He commanded the French fleet in the Mediterranean campaign of 1798 until his death at the Battle of the Nile. [1]
Tree planting in Fort Worth has occurred for more than 150 years and the utilization of certain species has changed with growing characteristics, preference, availability, competition for space ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
More new development is coming along the Chisholm Trail Parkway in far southwest Fort Worth. McDonald’s may build $1M restaurant near future Target, H-E-B in southwest Fort Worth Skip to main ...